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http://dx.doi.org/10.13064/KSSS.2017.9.3.007

Comparison of the pronunciation of word-initial liquids between generations in Korean  

Yun, Eunmi (전북대학교 대학원 언어치료학과/RISS)
Sim, Hyeran (군산대학교 국문학과)
Park, Seegyoon (군산대학교 국문학과)
Kim, Hyungi (전북대학교 대학원 언어치료학과/RISS)
Kang, Jinseok (전주기전대학 언어치료과)
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences / v.9, no.3, 2017 , pp. 7-15 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the different aspects of word-initial liquid sounds in Korean according to generations. Five women in their 50s and seven in their 20s participated in the experiment. We examined FL (formant of liquids) and voice sustained time by using Praat software. Three English native speakers were asked to judge the Korean speakers' recorded speech samples for marking [l] or [r] using evaluation sheet. The results of the two experiments revealed three important aspects. First, there was a statistically significant difference between the two groups in the FL of the words 'racket' and 'ruby.' Second, we found statistically significant differences in 'rhythm', 'ruby' and 'litter' from the measurement of the duration of the acoustic data. Third, there was no difference in pronunciation between the two groups according to the phonemes of the original language. The results of this study showed that it is difficult to say that the duration of word-initial liquids and the phoneme difference of the original language are indicators to distinguish the word-initial liquids between generations. Also, it was seen that the pronunciation of Korean word-initial liquid sounds varied across generations.
Keywords
word-initial liquids in Korean; spectrogram; FL (formant of liquids); generation difference;
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