• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• v.53 no.4
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• pp.579-584
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• 2010

Purpose : The number of the repatriated Korean students who had overseas study at early ages is increasing. They received foreign education, they can speak international languages, but they have many difficulties in articulation and intonation of the Korean language. This study aims to measure closure and aspiration duration, length of consonants, length of subsequent vowels, and ratio of consonants against subsequent vowels in vowel-consonant-vowel (VCV) syllables. Methods : This study compares the acoustic and phonetic characteristics of repatriated and native students, the ratio of articulation error of Korean plosives, the closure and aspiration duration, and the ratio of the aspiration duration against the closure duration. Results : The ratio of articulation error of Korean plosives between repatriated and native students is 19% and 2%, respectively. The closure duration was significantly longer in repatriated students than in native students. The aspiration duration was significantly longer in repatriated students than in native students. No difference was found in the ratio of aspiration duration against closure duration between the native and repatriated students. Conclusion : This study can be a good reference for estimating the phonetic difficulties of Korean elementary students who had overseas study at early ages.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.162-172
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• 2004

This study investigates the following three things through a production experiment and acoustic analysis: 1) relationship between speech rate and the segment duration in Korean, 2) relationship between speech rate and spectral characteristics of vowels, i. e. undershoot, and 3) correlation between the vowel duration and undershoot. The results showed that the faster the speech rate nab, the shorter the duration of syllables and segments was. A few speakers were affected by speech rate in the durational ratios between closure and aspiration in a stop and between Towel and consonant in a syllable. Closure duration and vowel duration were more affected compared to aspiration and consonant duration, respectively. Speakers showed some differences in the extent to which speech rate affected vowel undershoot, implying that speakers used different production mechanisms for spectral characteristics of vowels: Some speakers speeded up movement of articulatory organs according to speech rate increase while some kept it constant regardless of speech rate change.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Laryngology, Phoniatrics and Logopedics
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.40-46
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• 2011

Background and Objectives : Vocal fold bowing is an organic voice disorder that is associated with an abnormal structure of the vocal folds whereas vocal fold polyp is a functional voice disorder caused by an abnormal use of the vocal folds. Both types of vocal folds share a common property in that they make one's voice breathy or strained. The purpose of this study is to compare voice from two types of vocal folds and to offer information of clinical importance. Materials and Method: Vocal fold bowing and vocal fold polyp groups consisted of 7 male subjects, respectively. All subjects recorded /a/ in the state of measuring MPT (maximum phonation time), repeating 3 times, by a voice recorder (48 kHz sampling rate; 24 bit quantization). They answered the questions of K-VHI. Time domain parameters (such as perturbation parameters including HNR, Jitter, etc.) were calculated for the whole duration of /a/ and those of the frequency domain were measured in initial 40 ms and stable 40 ms of /a/, respectively. Mann-Whitney V-test was used for the time domain parameters and K-VHI survey, and Wilcoxon signed rank test was applied to the frequency domain parameters (H1, H2, H1-H2). Results: For K-VHI survey and the time domain analysis, there was no significant difference between bowing and polyp group. For frequency domain analysis, H1 and H2 showed a significantly different result between two groups. Vocal fold bowing group has longer duration and lower intensity than that of vocal fold polyp group in the 'aspirated interval', which could be observable prior to ordinary vowel oscillation. Conclusion: Both groups seem to show breathy voice. This could be referred on the basis of the value of H1-H2. The K-VHI survey says that subjects with vocal fold bowing feel more uncomfortable than subjects with vocal fold polyp.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.45-53
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• 2019

The purpose of this work was to examine the factors affecting the identities of the voiceless plosives, i.e. English [p, t, k] and Korean [p^h, t^h, k^h], from the spontaneous speech corpora. The factors were automatically extracted by a Praat script and the percent correctness of the discriminant analyses was incrementally assessed by increasing the number of factors used in predicting the identities of the plosives. The factors included the spectral moments and tilts of the plosive release bursts, the post-burst aspirations and the vowel onsets, the durations such as the closure durations and the voice onset times (VOTs), the locations within words and utterances and the identities of the following vowels. The results showed that as the number of factors increased up to five, so did the percent correctness of the analyses, resulting in 74.6% for English and 66.4% for Korean. However, the optimal number of factors for the maximum percent correctness was four, i.e. the spectral moments and tilts of the release bursts and the following vowels, the closure durations and the VOTs. This suggests that the identities of the voiceless plosives are mostly determined by their internal and vowel onset cues.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Laryngology, Phoniatrics and Logopedics
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.128-131
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• 1996

소아들의 음성장애의 대부분은 음성과 기능에 의한 성대의 오용 및 남용으로부터 기인한다. 그러나 음성장애에 대한 인식의 부족으로 인하여 소아의 음성장애 발견율은 극히 낮은 수준에 머므르고 있다. 치료에 있어서도 행동의 통제가 그다지 쉽지 않기 때문에 많은 어려움이 따른다. 본 연구는 소아의 음성장애의 발생경위와 문제의 설명과 차팅에 의한 남용의 감소에 초점을 둔 치료사례이다. 5세 아동의 심한 음성장애로 의뢰되어졌다. 음성증후는 목쉰소리, 기식화된 소리, 일시적인 발성일탈(phonation break) 등이 두드러졌다. 이비인후과 전문의의 스트로보스코프(stroboscope) 검진결과 초기 양측성 성대결절이 성대 앞쪽으로부터 1/3 지점에서 발견되었으며 비지피치(Visi-Pitch)로 측정된 퍼터베이션(perturbation 수치가 16.8이었다. 사례사 조사 과정에서 아동이 활동적이며 자주 고함을 지르고 자동차놀이를 주로하며 많은 시간을 보낸다는 것이 밝혀졌다. 중재 프로그램은 우선 문제를 설명하고 인식시키는 것과 고함을 지르거나 자동차놀이를 하면서 자동차 소음을 흉내내는 등의 음성남용 회수를 감소시키는 것에 초점을 두었다 17회의 치료로 성대결절이 감소되었고 퍼터베이션은 3.8로 저하되었으며 아동 스스로 음성남용을 통제할 수 있다는 임상적 판단하에 치료를 종결하였다. 1개월 후 추후 검사에서 남용적인 습관이 여전히 나타나지 않았으며 음성상태도 양호하였다. 소아 음성장애의 치료는 소아가 이해할 수 있는 용어로 문제의 인식을 확실히 시키고 행동을 체계적으로 통제할 수 있는 치료프로그램을 실행시키는 임상가의 자질이 대단히 중요하다. 그러나 그에 못지 않게, 많은 시간을 아동과 함께 보내는 부모나 교사의 협력이 치료의 성패를 좌우할 수 있다.조구와 처리구간에 차이가 없었다. 그러나 유지방 함량의 경우 대조구가 3.22%, 처리구가 3.37%로 처리구가 0.15% point 증가했으나 유의차는 없었다. Fan ＋ sprinkler가 설치된 시설에서 사육된 젖소에서 생산된 우유내 체세포수는 대조구에 비해 26.63%가 감소되었으나 유의차는 발견할 수 없었다. 이상의 시험 결과에서 볼 때 fan ＋ sprinkler를 이용한 방서 방법은 고온 stress를 완화시켜 유생산성의 증가에 기여할 수 있는 하나의 방법이라고 본다.을 알 수가 있었다.없다. 본 논문의 대상은 바로 이러한 합성 동사성명사의 논항구조와 동사성명사에 의해 하위범주화된 논항들의 문법적 실현양상이다..그 결과 심리적 특성과 사용자 수용 특성은 아바타 수용도에 부분적으로 영향을 미친다는 것 결과가 나타났다.웨어 프로세스 평가와 개선 모델의 개발을 위한 기초적인 자료를 제공할 것으로 예상된다 또한, 본 연구 결과는, 우리나라 소프트웨어 조직들이 실제로 무엇을 필요로 하는지를 밝힘으로써, 우리나라의 소프트웨어 산업을 육성하기 위한 실효성 있는 정책 입안을 위한 기초 자료를 제공할 것으로 예상된다.다.를 검증하려고 한다. 협력체계 확립, ${\circled}3$ 전문인력 확보 및 인력구성 조정, 그리고 ${\circled}4$ 방문보건사업의 강화 등이다., 대사(代謝)와 관계(關係)있음을 시사(示唆)해 주고 있다.ble nutrient (TDN) was highest in booting stage (59.7%); however no significant difference was found among other stages. The concentrations of Ca and P were not