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http://dx.doi.org/10.13064/KSSS.2018.10.4.019

Effects of gender, age, and individual speakers on articulation rate in Seoul Korean spontaneous speech  

Kim, Jungsun (Yeungnam University)
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences / v.10, no.4, 2018 , pp. 19-29 More about this Journal
Abstract
The present study investigated whether there are differences in articulation rate by gender, age, and individual speakers in a spontaneous speech corpus produced by 40 Seoul Korean speakers. This study measured their articulation rates using a second-per-syllable metric and a syllable-per-second metric. The findings are as follows. First, in spontaneous Seoul Korean speech, there was a gender difference in articulation rates only in age group 10-19, among whom men tended to speak faster than women. Second, individual speakers showed variability in their rates of articulation. The tendency for some speakers to speak faster than others was variable. Finally, there were metric differences in articulation rate. That is, regarding the coefficients of variation, the values of the second-per-syllable metric were much higher than those for the syllable-per-second metric. The articulation rate for the syllable-per-second metric tended to be more distinct among individual speakers. The present results imply that data gathered in a corpus of Seoul Korean spontaneous speech may reflect speaker-specific differences in articulatory movements.
Keywords
articulation rate; gender; age; individual differences; spontaneous speech; Seoul Korean;
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