Phonetics and Speech Sciences (말소리와 음성과학)

Korean Society of Speech Sciences (한국음성학회)
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Study on the realization of pause groups and breath groups

휴지 단위와 호흡 단위의 실현 양상 연구

  • Yoo, Doyoung (Department of Korean Language and Literature, Korea University) ;
  • Shin, Jiyoung (Department of Korean Language and Literature, Korea University)
  • 유도영 (고려대학교 국어국문학과) ;
  • 신지영 (고려대학교 국어국문학과)
  • Received : 2020.01.31
  • Accepted : 2020.03.19
  • Published : 2020.03.31
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to observe the realization of pause and breath groups from adult speakers and to examine how gender, generation, and tasks can affect this realization. For this purpose, we analyzed forty-eight male or female speakers. Their generation was divided into two groups: young, old. Task and gender affected both the realization of pause and breath groups. The length of the pause groups was longer in the read speech than in the spontaneous speech and female speech. On the other hand, the length of the breath group was longer in the spontaneous speech and the male speech. In the spontaneous speech, which requires planning, the speaker produced shorter length of pause group. The short sentence length of the reading material influenced the reason for which the length of the breath group was shorter in the reading speech. Gender difference resulted from difference in pause patterns between genders. In the case of the breath groups, the male speaker produced longer duration of pause than the female speaker did, which may be due to difference in lung capacity between genders. On the other hand, generation did not affect either the pause groups or the breath groups. The generation factor only influenced the number of syllables and the eojeols, which can be interpreted as the result of the difference in speech rate between generations.

이 연구의 목적은 성인 화자의 휴지 단위와 호흡 단위의 실현 양상을 관찰하여, 이것이 인지적 차이나 사회 언어적 변수 간 차이를 어떻게 반영하고 있는지 고찰하는 것이다. 이러한 차이를 고찰하기 위해 과제, 세대, 성별에 따른 발화 길이와 호흡 단위의 실현을 살펴보았다. 이를 위해 청·장년층 남녀 화자 48명의 문단 낭독 발화와 자유 발화를 분석하였다. 과제와 성별 변수는 휴지 단위와 호흡 단위 실현에 모두 영향을 주었다. 발화 길이는 낭독 발화에서, 여성의 발화에서 더 길었고, 호흡 단위의 길이는 자유 발화와 남성의 발화에서 더 길게 나타났다. 한편 세대 변수는 발화 길이 실현에는 영향을 주지 못했지만, 음절 수와 어절 수 실현에는 영향을 주었다. 발화 과제에 따른 차이는 인지적 부담량을 반영한다. 발화 계획이 빈번하게 이뤄져야 하는 자유 발화는 상대적으로 더 짧은 발화 길이를 보인다. 호흡 단위의 길이가 낭독 발화에서 더 짧았던 이유는 낭독 발화의 문장 길이에 영향을 받은 것이다. 성별에 따른 차이는 남성과 여성의 발화 내 휴지 패턴 차이에서 기인하였다. 호흡 단위의 경우 남성이 여성보다 더 긴 길이를 보였는데, 이는 남성과 여성의 폐활량 차이에서 비롯한 것으로 보인다. 세대는 음절 수와 어절 수 실현에만 영향을 주었는데, 이는 세대 간 발화속도 차이에서 기인한 결과로 해석할 수 있다.

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