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Phonetic Realization of Aspiration of Stops in English /Cr/ and /sCr/ Clusters and their Syllable Structure at the Phonetic Level: a Comparison between Two Speaker Groups (영어의 /Cr/과 /sCr/ 자음군 내 폐쇄음의 기식성 실현과 음성 단위의 음절구조: 두 화자집단 간 비교)

  • Sohn, Hyang-Sook
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.121-130
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    • 2014
  • This study investigates the acoustic property of aspiration realized in English voiceless stops of /Cr/ and /sCr/ clusters. VOT is measured from stops in these clusters produced by two groups; one from native speakers of English and the other from Korean native speakers. Aspiration of stops in different types of clusters is compared to various phonological factors such as location of stress, syllable type, and position in word. Pursuing the idea that phonetic realization is correlated with phonological representation, attempts are made to account for the gradient nature of aspiration of stops on the basis of syllable structure at the phonetic level, which may vary in the wake of resyllabification. Voiceless stops in /Cr/ and /sCr/ clusters are further compared to results obtained in the previous study on /sC/ cluster. Variations in aspiration are also characterized in terms of segmental precedence relation of stops in the clusters, namely, post-[s], pre-[r], or both.

An Experimental Phonetic Study on the Rhythm of Daegu and Standard Korean --Focusing on Duration-- (대구말과 표준말 리듬의 실험음성학적 비교연구 --길이(duration)를 중심으로--)

  • Jo Un-Il
    • MALSORI
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    • no.27_28
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    • pp.89-109
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    • 1994
  • This thesis compares the duration aspect of the Daegu tongue with that of standard Korean. In the former study on the rhythm of standard Korean, one of the purposes of the study was to compare it with dialects. This thesis is the first attempt to do that. For this purpose, this thesis proceeds as follows. After Introduction, Chapter 2 surveys the former study. Chapter 3 deals with the materials, method and results of the experiment. Chapter 4 analyzes and interprets the results of the experiment, In Conclusion, the most Prominent fact is that the results of the experiment fall short of Daegu tongue speakers' expectations. The Daegu tongue is generally considered as a 'tone language.' And as Daegu tongue speakers sensitively recognize pitch, they think that they quickly say the syllables between the Pitch stressed syllables, whereas standard Korean speakers say those syllables relatively slowly, But in this experiment, which deals with only duration ignoring Pitch, their assumption is proved to be false.

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