• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.230-233
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• 2007

In the literature on the tense consonants in Korean, it has been proposed that this consonant is underlyingly represented by a single consonant (the singleton hypothesis) and that it is represented by a sequence of two lenis consonants (the geminate hypothesis). One piece of the empirical evidence supporting the geminate hypothesis is that the closure duration of tense consonants in intervocalic position is more than twice as long in comparison with their lenis counterparts. In this paper, we report on the closure duration of three types of plosives in various phonotactically permitted contexts in Korean. The results of the measurement show that the duration of the tense consonants in post-sonorant contexts is reduced by a third in comparison with that of the intervocalic ones. These temporal differences suggest that the measurement of closure durations in intervocalic position alone is not sufficient to sustain the geminate hypothesis.

• Proceedings of the KSLP Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.142-142
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• 2003

본 연구는 텍스트 분석 기반 자동 발음열 생성 시스템의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 방법으로 예외 단어 선별 작업을 제안한다. 제안하는 자동 발음열 생성 시스템은 형태음운 규칙 적용, 예외 규칙 적용, 일반음운 규칙 적용의 순서로 이루어진다. 이 때 예외 규칙은 예외사전을 검색하여 해당 어휘가 있을 때에만 적용하게 되는데, 예외 단어는 일정한 예외 환경에서만 나타난다. 본 시스템의 예외 사전에 있는 예외 단어는 5만여 어휘 연세사전에서 예외 환경에 해당하는 28,486개의 어휘 중, 총 2,931개의 예외 단어를 선별하였다. 본 시스템의 성능 평가는 ETRI 2,385, PBS 1,637 어절을 사용하였는데 실험 결과 각각 99.8%, 99.9%의 정확도를 보였고, 0.1% 의 오류는 예외 규칙 중에 하나인 어휘적 경음화 현상에서 나타났다. 따라서 예외 사전을 보다 정확하게 만드는 방법인, 예외 단어 선별 작업을 통해 본 시스템의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있다. (중략)

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.77-83
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• 2015

The aim of this paper is to investigate Japanese speakers' perception of Korean tense consonants. In a range of perceptual experiments Japanese participants were directed to label Korean stimuli using Japanese katakana characters. The analysis of the results showed a strong influence of Japanese phonology in the responses. Japanese perception of sokuon was increased, (1) when the tense consonants were in word medial position, (2) when tense consonants were other than /s/, (3) when the tense consonant followed voiceless consonants, (4) when the consonants were part of a cluster sharing their point of articulation, (5) when preceding vowel were other than /u/, (6) when following vowel were /u/. This result, showing preference for phonology, is in harmony with previous research on the Japanese sokuon perception using Japanese (Takeyasu 2009, Matsui 2011), and Italian (Tanaka & Kubozono 2008) stimuli.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.39-51
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• 2021

Based on spontaneous speech data collected in 2020, this study examined the production and perception of Korean lenis, aspirated, and fortis stops. Unlike the controlled experiments of previous studies, lenis and aspirated stops of males in their 30s were not distinguished by voice onset time (VOT) in spontaneous speech. Perceptual experiments were conducted on young females, the leaders of language change. F0 was found to serve as the primary cue for the perception of lenis stops, and then VOT distinguished the aspirated and fortis stops. The fact that the sounds were always perceived as lenis stops when F0 was low, irrespective of whether VOT was short or long, showed that F0 plays an absolute role in the perception of lenis stops. However, in some cases the aspirated and lenis stops were distinguished only by VOT, which does not happen in production. In terms of sound change, disagreement between production and perception systems occurs when sound change is in progress. In particular, when production change precedes perception change, it indicates that the sound change is in its latter stages. Young females still maintain the previous system in perception because the distinction of lenis and aspirated stops by VOT was valid in their parents' generation. In other words, VOT is still used for perception to communicate with other groups.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.111-122
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• 2013

After the port opening in 1876, the western people made joseon image as the land of morning calm. there was a conception that joseon was a uncultivated country in the meaning of the land of morning calm. famous modernists such as gil-jun yu, kwang-su lee also had same conception. but such conception began to change in 1930's. the number of motor vehicle began to increase rapidly in 1930's. and also many of motor vehicle were equipped with air horn or electronic horn instead of bulb horn. bulb horn made thick and low rubber sound. but air horn or electronic horn made sharp and high metallic sound. city people of colonial joseon began to recognize air horn or electronic horn as city noise. so they tried to control the use of air horn or electronic horn. finally, in late 1930's, the use of air horn and electronic horn were prohibited.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 1996.10a
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• pp.43-52
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• 1996

This paper deals with the nature and function of intensification in Korean in a wider scope of intensification which was not paid proper attention including intensification in the initial position as well as middle position. Unobserved new areas of intensification in the initial position are paid more attention like sound split of polysemy e.g. (s'eda), (kyongk'i) by means of intensification and north Korean application of intensification on (wonsu) and intensification of borrowed English. The recent phenomenon of ‘gwua’ intensification is experimented on two groups of people, young students and old people beyond 65 years old by means of sociolinguistic analysis. The result shows that its intensification is a form of student violent power and a mark of extreme solidarity among activist students. Thirty three university students(male 16, female 17) are asked to explained to write the meanings(feelings or when to use, etc.) of the words which have normal form and intensified forms. The results show intensification attaches the meaning of ‘emphasis,’ to bring the extremely polarized emotion: samll to the smallest, exact to the perfect exactness, bad to the worst feeling. Four words are being split to express different meaning with the word intensified. In conclusion, the nature of so called saisiot(t) e.g. intensification is voiceless tensed pause and its functions are the polarization of the original meaning of the word, sound split of polysemy and attachment of social values by intensification.

• Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.13-23
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• 1982

This Study was designed to investigate Traffic condition, Traffic Noise level, Traffic Noise Index (TNI) and Response for dissatisfactions of residents as part of assesment of Noise by 12 Sites in Seoul from July 1st to the end of August 1981. As the resut of this Study, the following Conclusion were obtained 1. The mean traffic Volume of Seoul was 3076/hour ranging 1440/hour to 5772/hour. 2. The range of Road Traffic Noise Level in Residential area was from 73.0dB (A) to 80.2dB (A). The highest level was 80.2dB (A) on Heugseog-dong and the lowest level was 73.0dB (A) on Suyu-dong. 3. Comparision of Road traffic noise level in the day and evening, the range of traffic noise level in day was from 73.9dB (A) to 80.2dB (A), and evening was ranging 73.0 to 79.9dB (A). 4. The range of TNI in Residential area was from 77.5 to 100.0. The highest TNI was 100.0 on Suyu-dong including Heugseog-dong, the lowest TNI was 77.5 on Hyuikyung-dong. 5. Respose of Noise by 360 householders has been examined in Residential Area: Sourse of Noise Causing bothersome to residents was 52.5% of traffic, the types of road traffic Cousing annoyance to residents residents were 84.8% of passing cars and 81.1% of horns, and 71.7% of reading interfered and 68.1% appeal dissatisfactions due to the sleeping disturbance by road traffic noise.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 1994.02a
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• pp.45-53
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• 1994

음 변화 규칙을 음성규칙(A)와 음운규칙(B)와 기타(C)로 분류한다면, A.음성규칙의 발생 총계는 B.음운규칙의 발생 총계보다 2배 이상 더 많다. 여기에 가장 발생 빈도가 높은 규칙부터 순서대로 10개만 정리하면 다음과 같다. 순위 규칙부류 명칭 백분율 1 A 음절 말 유성자음의 불파화 31.84, 2 A 유성음화 19.37 3 B 장모음화 10.00, 4 A 설측음화 9.78, 5 B 경음화 6.43, 6 B 음절말 장애음 중화 5.16, 7 A ㅅ 구개음화 3.71, 8 C 음절 조정 규칙 3.10, 9 B 단모음화 1.60, 10 A ㄴ 구개음화 1.42 별도로 진행한 총체적 연구(이상억에 의하면, 음성규칙, 즉 A가 총 6개 있는데 그 중 5규칙이 10위 내에 나타나 상위 쪽에 3번이나 포함되어 있는 점이 주목된다. 특히 규칙 1과 2의 합계는 전체 중 51.2%를 넘는다. 규칙 10위까지의 합계는 전체 중 92.4%를 차지한다. 13.장모음화(10%)는 12.단모음화(1.6%)보다 훨씬 높은 출현빈도를 보인다. 또 각종 구개음화 규칙의 순위는 ㅅ(7위), ㄴ(10위), ㄹ(17위), ㄷ(26위) 구개음화로 분포되어 있음이 밝혀졌다. 한편 삭제규칙(음운탈락 및 단순화) 계열이 14, 15, 19, 21, 25, 28위에 널리 나열되어 있는 데 반해, 삽입규칙은 23위에 ㄴ삽입 하나가 보일 뿐이다.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.94-103
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• 2016

This study analyzed the cause and liability of a car fire. The car was purchased 1 year ago and had traveled 8,500 km. When the car stopped at a red right and was about to start when the light turned green, the car next to it sounded itsa horn. As a result, the driver stopped the car and found that there was a fire in the engine compartment, which the fire brigade subsequently extinguished. This car fire may have been caused by an electrical spark from a screw hook inserted into the battery + terminal. Therefore, the courts decided that the car owner or driver was not responsible for the fire, because the electrical spark from the hook that caused it resulted from the automaker's manufacturing defect.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.424-433
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• 2015

This study tried to investigate the differences between auditory preferences for a discrimination study of minimal pairs with the different onset and the same nucleus of a syllable on the basis of articulator-distance in case of Korean infants and toddlers. As a result we found a main effect for articulator-distance and age but not an effect according to the types of phonation especially in terms of tense. Former results are line with the previous studies having reported the order of consonants acquisition based on the places of articulation suggesting that more sensitive responses for the contiguous and different phonemes may lead earlier acquisition for the same place of articulation of the speech sounds. Specifically, bilabial soudns are followed by alveolar and palatal sounds in order. The latter results also showed that tense consonants got a high rate of recognition beside lax consonants according to the age and sex.