• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.34C no.5
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• pp.55-65
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• 1997

In many cases, a dialogue system can't extract the correct analysis information of a user's spoken utterance, because of its own ungrammatical components. Therefore, in order to perform a correct before it performs the syntactic processing. In this paper, we use a real dialogue corpus and classify these ungrammatical errors as 4 categories : phonological, syntactic, semantic errors that consist of speech reparis and inversions, and propose an algorithm to detect and correct the errors. In short, this paper proposes a method to detect and correct the speech repairs and inversions that are classified as the phonological and syntactic errors to implement a robust dialogue system. And, through the test of real dialogue data, this paper shows an efficiency of the proposed algorithm.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2005.04a
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• pp.9-13
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• 2005

The aim of this paper is to analyze the vowel lengthening in Korean, whose function is distinctive in the word's level. In this paper, I examined two acoustic parameters : vowel length and formants(F1 and F2) to distinguish or to identify the long vowel and his short correspondant, for exemple, /a:/ and /a/. According to the results of experimental analysis and to the discussion on the vowel length's relation and its influence to Korean phonological system, I considered a vowel lengthening as a prosodeme, so as a prosodic element in Korean phonological system.

• MALSORI
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• no.40
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• pp.91-104
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• 2000

생성음운론의 입장에서 본 Hyman 가설을 적용할 때 영어와 한국어에 공통으로 나타나는 영어 분절음 $/p^h,{\;}t^h,{\;}k^ h/$는 한국어 화자에게서 그대로 인식되며, 영어에는 있지만 한국어에 없는 /f, v, $\theta$/는 관련 음운 규칙이 적용되어 한국어음과 유사하게 된 $[/p^h]$], [p], [s]로 각각 인식된다고 설명했다. 이와 같은 Hyman 가설의 적용은 /f, v, $\theta$/가 왜 한국어에서 존재하지 않고 관련 음운규칙이 적용된 형태로 나타나는 지에 대한 이유를 제시하지 못하는 한계가 있다. 그러나 최적성 이론에서는 입력형에서 모든 분절음을 받아들이고 언어간 제약등급의 차이로 /f, v, $\theta$/와 같은 분절음이 한국어에서 나타나지 않고 [p, t, k]로 나타난다고 설명하였다. 따라서 최적성 이론은 영어 분절음이 한국어에서 나타나는 다양한 양상을 적절히 설명할 수 있음을 보여 주고 있다.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.109-125
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• 2000

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the intonational meaning of various sentences based on the English Intonational Phonology, and to show the superiority of Intonational Phonology in explaining the intonational meanings in comparison with the other existing intonational theories. The American structuralists and British schools which attempt to describe the intonation in terms of 'levels' and 'configurations' respectively, analyze intonational meaning from a holistic perspective in which an utterance cannot be divided into smaller parts. On the other hand, Intonational Phonology considers English intonation as composed of a series of High and Low tones, and as a result, intonational meaning is interpreted compositionally as sets of H and L. In this paper, the phonological relations between intonation and its meaning from the compositions of pitch accents, phrase accents, and boundary tones which consist of an intonational tune are discussed.

• MALSORI
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• no.25_26
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• pp.38-51
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• 1993

Korean phonology has not recognised metrical foot as a phonological unit to account for certain phonological processes. This paper, however, suggests that an optional h-deletion process in Korean should require the notion of metrical foot as an independent phonological domain. The previous analyses rely on the notion of speech speed to explain optional h-deletion : i. e. an intervocalic h is deleted in fast speech, but in slow speech it remains. This paper claims that the notion of speech speed should be reinterpreted in terms of metrical foot : i.e. foot-internal t is deleted, but foot-initial h remains. Such analysis provides evidence that metrical foot constitutes a phonological unit in Korean phonology. With the notion of metrical foot, it enables us to achieve more detailed and accurate analysis of the optional h-deletion process in Korean.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.48-51
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• 2003

The purpose of this paper is to research the realization of /h/ between sonorant sounds. For this purpose, we analyze speech of 5 people using standard Korean. As a result, we can find that the possibility of deletion of /h/ is increasing, when speech rate is high, the AP has more syllables, and /h/ is far from the AP-initial. While the position of AP or IP has no relation to realization of /h/. The deletion of /h/ is more often in this order. Followed segments: lateral>nasal>vowel, following segments: vowel>glide. And there is no change on duration of following vowel after /h/ deletion.

• Korean Linguistics
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• v.79
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• pp.63-89
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• 2018

This study explores contrastive relation among voiced bilabial fricative [${\ss}$], voiceless bilabial stop [p] and glide [w] in Middle Korean consonant system based on Probabilistic Model. Preceding researches about voiced bilabial fricative [${\ss}$] proposed two influential arguments. One is voiced bilabial fricative [${\ss}$] was an independent phoneme, the other is it was not an independent phoneme but an allophone of voiceless bilabial stop [p] in Middle Korean. This study applies Probabilistic Phonological Relationship Model (PPRM) for solving the problem of dichotomy about contrastive and allophonic relations. The analysis result of the contrastive entropy by PPRM suggests that voiced bilabial fricative [${\ss}$] was just an allophone of voiceless bilabial stop [p] or glide [w] in Middle Korean. Comparing the entropies between [p] and other consonants with the entropies between [${\ss}$] and other consonants, a continuum defined in terms of entropy reveals that [${\ss}$] in Middle Korean was more allophonic than phonemic.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.51-63
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• 2020

Phonological awareness is a metalinguistic awareness ability of phonology and is known to predict language skills, such as reading and vocabulary skills. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between phonological awareness, phonological processing, and language skills in 4- to 6-years-old typically developing (TD) children and children with language delay (LD). A total of 32 children (TD=18, LD=15) participated in this study. They performed a phonological awareness task consisting of counting, deletion, and discrimination at syllable level. Nonword Repetition, Digit Backward, Receptive & Expressive Vocabulary Test, and Grammaticality Judgment Task were performed to analyze the correlation between phonological awareness, phonological processing, and language ability. A multiple stepwise regression analysis was performed to examine the phonological awareness subtasks that predict language ability. In the TD group, the syllable categorization task significantly predicted the receptive vocabulary and the performance of the Grammaticality Judgment Task. The LD group showed that the syllable counting task significantly predicted the receptive vocabulary, the expressive vocabulary, and the performance of the Grammaticality Judgment Task. The results showed that the phonological awareness performance was significantly different between the two groups. Further, correlation analysis and regression analysis showed different results for each group. The result of the phonological awareness performance predicted the language ability of each group significantly, suggesting the importance of the meta-linguistic awareness ability of phonology.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.305-308
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 한국어에 나타난 외래어 중에서 외국어(영어/독일어)의 $[\int]$음이 어떻게 인식되고 해석되었는지를 살펴보았다. 특히 본 논문에서는 $[\int]$음의 영어와 독일어 발음과 한국어의 대응되는 분절음이 일대일 대응을 이루고 있지 못하다는 것을 보이고 이런 대응관계를 설명하기 위해 어떤 정보가 필요한지에 대해 살펴보았다. 즉, 독일어와 영어에서 음절의 말음으로 쓰인$[\int]$음이 한국어에서는 [쉬/시]로 인식되는데 반해 본토어에서 $[\int]$음이 음절초음의 일부로 사용된 경우에는 한국어의 외래어에서 (슈)로 화자에게 인식되고 또 문자로 표현된다 따라서 본 논문에서는 음절초음의 일부로 나타나는 외국어의 $[\int]$음과 음절말음으로 나타나는 외국어 $[\int]$음의 음성학적 기호를 분석해보고 한국어에서 서로 다른 표면형을 형성하는 이유가 본토어의 (음절 초음/말음이라는) 음운론적 특성에 기인하는 것인지 혹은 현재까지 우리가 알고 있지 못했던 $[\int]$음의 발음 위치에 따른, 즉 동시조음(coarticulation) 현상 때문에 생긴 변이음 때문인지에 대한 규명을 시도하였다. 외국어 화자의 발성실험을 통해, 한국어에서 /쉬/로 인식되는 독일어와 영어의 $/\int/$음은 /슈/로 인식되는 $/\int/$음보다 마찰소음의 peak frequency가 높거나 지속시간이 길게 나타났다 이런 결과를 근거로 영어와 독일어의 $/\int/$ 음이 한국어의 /쉬/음과 /슈/음으로 구분될 때 사용되는 음성자질은 크게 2가지, 즉 마찰소음의 peak frequency와 지속시간이며, 둘 중 한가지만 있어도 구분은 가능하나 이 2가지가 동시에 존재할 때 /쉬/음과 /슈/음의 구분이 현저히 용이해진다는 가설을 세워보았다.

• MALSORI
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• no.44
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• pp.1-14
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• 2002

Because the accuracy and the fluency are the essence in English speaking, both of them are very important in English trencher training and in-service English training programs. To get the accuracy and the fluency, the causes and the phenomena of the unnatural pronunciation have to be diagnosed. Consequently, the problematic and unnatural pronunciation of Korean elementary and secondary English teachers should be analyzed with using Acoustic Analyzing tools like CSL, Multi-speech and Praat. In addition, an attempt to Pinpoint what the causes of unnatural pronunciation was executed. Next a procedure and steps were proposed for in-service training programs that would cultivate the fluency and the accuracy. In case of elementary teachers, the unnatural pronunciation of segmental features and suprasegmental features were found much. therefore segmental features should be emphasized in the begging of pronunciation training courses and then suprasegmental features have to be emphasized. In case of secondary teachers, the unnatural pronunciation of suprasegmental features were found much. Therefore segmental and suprasegmental features have to be focused at the same time. In other words, features in word level should be focused first for elementary English teacher, and features in word level and beyond word level should be trained at the same time for secondary English teachers.