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http://dx.doi.org/10.9728/dcs.2013.14.3.323

A Visual Study of the Quality of English Pronunciation Using the Praat Program  

Park, Heesuk (남서울대학교 영어과)
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Journal of Digital Contents Society / v.14, no.3, 2013 , pp. 323-331 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study aims at investigating and comparing the diphthongs, words, and sentences between two Korean highschool students groups using the Praat program. To do this English words and sentences were uttered and recorded by twenty Korean subjects; each group has ten subjects. All the subjects are female and their grades range from freshman to sophomore. Acoustic features were measured from a sound spectrogram with the help of the Praat software program and analyzed through statistical analysis. Results showed that the lengths of diphthongs and words were different between two groups, but the difference was not significant. However, in the lengths of sentence utterance, the group of 5 to 6 grade students in the current grading system pronounced longer than that of 1 to 2 grade students. Especially in the pronunciation of the first two sentences with more than five words, the difference was significant. From the data of the overall sum of words between the two subject groups, we were able to find out that the differences of the lengths of the words with the diphthongs were not significant, but those of the sentences with more than five words were significant. In the pronunciation of the words between coat and code, the length of the diphthong in coat was smaller than that of in code.
Keywords
the Praat program; length; diphthong; word; sentence; pronunciation;
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