Phonetics and Speech Sciences (말소리와 음성과학)

Korean Society of Speech Sciences (한국음성학회)
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The pattern of use by gender and age of the discourse markers 'a', 'eo', and 'eum'

담화표지 '아', '어', '음'의 성별과 연령별 사용 양상

  • Song, Youngsook (Department of Korean Language and Literature, Kyunghee University) ;
  • Shim, Jisu (Department of Korean Language and Literature, Kyunghee University) ;
  • Oh, Jeahyuk (Department of Korean Language and Literature, Konkuk University)
  • 송영숙 (경희대학교 국어국문학과) ;
  • 심지수 (경희대학교 국어국문학과) ;
  • 오재혁 (건국대학교 국어국문학과)
  • Received : 2020.10.31
  • Accepted : 2020.12.14
  • Published : 2020.12.31
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Abstract

This paper quantitatively calculated the speech frequency of the discourse markers 'a', 'eo', and 'eum' and the speech duration of these discourse markers using the Seoul Corpus, a spontaneous speech corpus. The sound durations were confirmed with Praat, the Seoul Corpus was analyzed with Emeditor, and the results were presented by statistical analysis with R. Based on the corpus analysis, the study investigated whether a particular factor is preferred by speakers of particular categories. The most prominent feature of the corpus is that the sound durations of female speakers were longer than those of men when using the 'eum' discourse marker in a final position. In age-related variables, teenagers uttered 'a' more than 'eo' in an initial position when compared to people in their 40s. This study is significant because it has quantitatively analyzed the discourse markers 'a', 'eo', and 'eum' by gender and age. In order to continue the discussion, more precise research should be conducted considering the context. In addition, similarities can be found in "e" and "ma" in Japanese(Watanabe & Ishi, 2000) and 'uh', 'um' in English(Gries, 2013). afterwards, a study to identify commonalities and differences can be predicted by using the cross-linguistic analysis of the discourse.

이 연구는 담화 표지 '아, 어, 음'의 출현 빈도와 발화 시간, 발화 위치 등을 계량적으로 관찰하여 성별과 연령별 차이를 보이고자 하였다. 이를 위해 대용량 음성 코퍼스인 서울코퍼스를 이용하였고, Praat(ver.6.1.31)으로 음길이와 실제 발화를 확인하고, Emeditor(ver.17.6.1)로 코퍼스를 분석하고, R(ver.3.4.4)로 통계 분석하여 결과를 제시하였다. 성별에 따라 보면 여성의 경우 남성보다 단독 발화에서 '음'이 고빈도로 사용되었고, 발화 종결 위치에서의 평균 음길이 또한 길었다. 연령에 따라 보면 발화 시작 위치에서 10대에서는 '아'가, 40대는 '어'가 고빈도로 출현하는 것이 특징적이었다.

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