• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.101-113
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• 2020

This study aimed to explore how effective explicit form-focused instruction (FFI) is in teaching the schwa vowel /ə/ to EFL students in a classroom setting. The participants were 25 female high school students, who were divided into the experimental group (n=13) and the control group (n=12). One female American also participated in the study for a speech sample as a reference. The treatment, which involves shadowing model pronunciation by the researcher and a free text-to-speech software and the researcher's feedback in a private session, was given to the control group over a month and a half. The speech samples, for which the participants read the 14 polysyllabic stimulus words followed by the sentences containing the words, were collected before and after the treatment. The paired-samples t test and non-parametric Wilcoxon signed-rank test were used for analysis. The results showed that the participants of the experimental group in the post-test reduced the duration of the schwa by around 40 percent compared to the pre-test. However, little effect was found in approximating the participants' distribution patterns of /ə/ measured by the F1/F2 formant frequencies to the reference point, which was 539 Hz (F1) by 1797 Hz (F2). The findings of this study suggest that explicit FFI with multiple repetitions and corrective feedback is partly effective in teaching pronunciation.

• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.517-523
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• 2000

Nasopharyngeal closure is a sphincter mechanism between the activities of the soft palate, lateral pharyngeal wall and the posterior pharyngeal wall, which divides the oral cavity and the nasal cavity. It participates in physiological activities such as swallowing, breathing and pronunciation. In case of an error in this mechanism, it is called a nasopharyngeal incompetence. The causes of this error are defects in (1) length, function, posture of the soft palate (2) depth and width of the nasopharynx, (3) activity of the posterior and lateral pharyngeal wall. The purpose of this study is to analyze the nasopharynx of cleft palate patients using lateral cephalograms and at the same time, evaluate the degree of hypernasality of each vowels to find its relationship with nasopharyngeal incompetence. The following results were obtained: 1. The length of the soft palate was markedly short than normal. 2. The adequate ratio was smaller than the normal value. 3. As the adequate ratio decreased, when articulating vowels, anatomic mVPI increased. 4. When articulating each vowels, anatomic VPI was in proportion with the degree of hypernasality. 5. The degree of hypernasality was greater in high vowels(/i/, /u/) than low vowel(/a/). From the above results, it can be concluded that in cleft palate patients, lateral cephalograms can be used effectively in diagnosing and evaluating nasopharyngeal incompetence. The anatomic structure of the nasopharynx has close relation to the degree of hypernasality.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.57-64
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• 2011

This paper describes how to storing and querying trajectory information on PostgreSQL/PostGIS. Recently as technology of mobile devices is advancing, many researches for location-based services and moving object's trajectory have been studied. Trajectory is the set of information of the location by the time, and is one of the most im portant information for location-based services. Traditional spatial database systems do not support trajectory data types and functions. In this paper, we propose a trajectory data type and query functions for moving objects on PostgreSQL/PostGIS.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.1
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• pp.201-211
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• 1997

Acoustically a naturally-spoken vowel is composed of five formants. However, the acoustic quality of a vowel is known to be mostly determined by $F_1\;and\;F_2$. The main purpose of this study was to examine how synthesized vowels with $F_1\;and\;F_2$ are perceived by Korean native speakers. In addion, we are interested in finding whether the synthesized vowels are perceived differently by standard Korean speakers and Kyungnam regional dialect speakers. In the experiment 9 Seoul standard Korean speakers and 9 Kyungnam dialect speakers heard 536 vowels synthesized in vowel space with $F_1\;by\;F_2$ and categorized them into one of 10 Korean vowels. The resultant vowel map showed that each Korean vowel occupies an unique area in the two-dimensional vowel space of $F_1\;by\;F_2$, and confirmed that $F_1\;and\;F_2$ play important roles in the perception of vowels. The results also showed that the Seoul speakers and the Kyungnam speakers perceive the synthesized vowels differently. For example, /e/ versus /$\varepsilon$/ contrast, /y/, and /$\phi$/ are perceived differently by the Seoul speakers, whereas they were perceptually confused by the Kyungnam speakers. These results might be due to the different vowel systems of the standard Korean and the Kyungnam regional dialect. While the latter uses a six-vowel system which has no /e/ vs /$/ contrast, /v/ vs /i/ contrast, /y/, and /$\phi$/, the former recognizes these as different vowels. This result suggests that the vowel system of differing dialect restricts the perception of the Korean vowels. Unexpectedly /i/ does not occupy any area in the vowel apace. This result suggests that /i/ cannot be synthesized without $F_3$.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.341-346
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• 1999

본 연구는 악교정 환자 중 9명의 골격성 3급 부정교합 환자를 대상으로 음향학적 분석을 통하여 술전, 술후에 나타나는 발음상의 차이를 살펴보았다. 술전, 술후간 모음 조음상의 차이는 술후 혀의 후방, 하방 이동과 동시에 목젖의 후상방 이동으로 인한 구강 내 조음 공간의 극대화로 요약할 수 있다. Long-term average 스펙트라 분석 결과, /ㅅ/의 조음상의 차이는 술전에서는 마찰소음 에너지가 전 주파수대에 걸쳐 고른 분포를 보이나 술후에는 정상인과 같이 고주파수대에 집중되는 경향을 보였다. 동시에 마찰소음의 peak frequency는 술후에서가 술전에 비해 높게 나타났다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1993.06a
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• pp.233-237
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• 1993

본 논문에서는 패턴 매칭 방법에 근거하여 인식 단위가 음소인 음소 기반 인식 시스템을 구성하였다. 선택한 신경망 구조는 생물학적 신경망인 코호넨(T. Kohonen)의 SOFM(Self-Organizing Feature Map)으로 패턴 매칭 과정 중 cluster로 사용하였다. SOFM 신경망은 신호 공간에 대해서 최적의 국소(局所) 해부적 사사에 의한 자기 조직화 과정을 수행하며, 그 결과 인식 문제에 있어서 상당히 높은 정확도를 나타낸다. 따라서 SOFM 신경망은 음소 인식에도 효과적으로 응용될 수 있다. 또한 음소 인식 시스템의 성능 향상을 위해 K-means 클러스터링 알고리즘이 결합된 학습 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 음소 인식 시스템의 성능을 평가하기 위해, 먼저, 우리말 음소들을 모음, 파열음, 마찰음, 파찰음, 유음 및 비음, 종성의 6개 음소군으로 분류하고 각 음소군에 대한 특징 지도를 구성하여 labeler의 기능을 수행하게 하였다. 화자 종속 인식실험 결과 87.2%의 인식률을 보였으며 제안한 학습법의 빠른 수렴성과 인식률 향상을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2015.01a
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• pp.175-178
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• 2015

최근 모바일 장비 및 시스템의 발달로 위치정보와 이동 객체에 관련된 많은 서비스들이 연구되고 있다. 궤적은 이동 객체가 시간에 따라 변하는 위치정보들의 모음이다. 기존의 데이터베이스 시스템에서는 이동 객체 데이터 타입을 지원하지 않는다. 이 논문에서는 공간 데이터베이스로 많이 활용되고 있는 PostgreSQL/PostGIS 상에서 궤적 데이터의 연산 및 질의 처리가 가능한 확장형 모듈로써 PostTrajectory를 제안하고 있다. 또한, 궤적 데이터에 대한 다양한 질의 요구 조건들을 충족시킬 수 있는 함수들을 구현하여 궤적 데이터의 효율적인 질의 처리를 가능하게 하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.63-66
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• 2006

This present study investigates the vowels in Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia in terms of the first two formant frequencies. For this study, we recruited 30 male native speakers of Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia (15 each) which include 6 vowels (i, e, a, o, u, a) in various contexts. The present study provides a three-dimensional vowel space by plotting F1, F2, and the frequency of datapoints. This study is significant in that the geophysics of vowel space presents yet another view of the vowel space.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2022.07a
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• pp.613-614
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• 2022

전 세계적인 주목을 받기 시작한 한류 콘텐츠의 확산으로 한국어 교육에 대한 수요가 폭발적으로 증가하고 있는 상황에서 효과적인 한국어 학습용 기능성 게임에 대한 가능성이 주목 받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 한국어 교육의 진입 과정에 해당 될 수 있는 한글을 게임 통해 학습하고 익숙해지는 경험을 제공할 수 있는 한글 학습 RPG '단어수집가'개발을 기획하고 해당 게임의 프로토타입을 개발한다. 제안 게임의 주인공은 가상의 공간에서의 체험을 통해 한글의 자음과 모음을 게임 아이템으로 획득하고 이를 조합하여 한글 단어를 합성하여 이를 게임에 활용하는 구조를 가지도록 설계되었고, 전체 게임 시나리오의 학습 적합성과 재미 요소들의 점검을 위해 실제 기획 의 핵심 내용을 적용한 프로토타입을 활용한다. 또한 본 게임에서 기획된 한글 학습용 게임은 미국 워싱턴에 위치한 조지워싱턴대학교에서 발행하는 미국인 대상의 한국어 교재와 스토리 등을 연동하여 온오프라인 연계 한글 교육 실현을 목표로 한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.9
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• pp.77-85
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• 2015

The finger language is the part of the sign language, which is a language system that expresses vowels and consonants with hand gestures. Korean finger language has 31 gestures and each of them needs a lot of learning models for accurate recognition. If there exist mass learning models, it spends a lot of time to search. So a real-time awareness system concentrates on how to reduce search spaces. For solving these problems, this paper suggest a hierarchy HMM structure that reduces the exploration space effectively without decreasing recognition rate. The Korean finger language is divided into 3 categories according to the direction of a wrist, and a model can be searched within these categories. Pre-classification can discern a similar finger Korean language. And it makes a search space to be managed effectively. Therefore the proposed method can be applied on the real-time recognition system. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can reduce the time about three times than general HMM recognition method.