Phonetics and Speech Sciences (말소리와 음성과학)

Korean Society of Speech Sciences (한국음성학회)
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A Comparative Study on the Effects of Age on the Vowel Formants of the Korean Corpus of Spontaneous Speech

한국어 자연발화 음성코퍼스의 연령별 모음 포먼트 비교 연구

  • 김순옥 (영남대학교 영어영문학과) ;
  • 윤규철 (영남대학교 영어영문학과)
  • Received : 2015.07.31
  • Accepted : 2015.09.08
  • Published : 2015.09.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to extract the first two vowel formant frequencies of the forty speakers from the Seoul corpus[8] and to compare them by the age and sex. The results showed that the vowel formants showed similar patterns between male and female speakers. All the vowels in each age group and all the age groups in each vowel had main effects on either of the formant frequencies. Whereas in English, the vowel space of the older age group moved slightly to the upper right side relative to the younger group, the location of the vowel spaces of the Korean vowels were not as consistent.

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