• MALSORI
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• no.57
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• pp.31-42
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to observe how Korean learners perceive an English weak syllable in words containing WS syllable pattern. According to the automated discrimination task using E-Prime, the ratio of correct answer(%) and reaction time of the stimuli with same syllable patterns were respectively higher and faster than those with different syllable patterns. Specifically, in the stimuli with different syllable patterns, the frequency(familiarity) of stressed word succeeding weak syllable and whether the weak syllable had coda in it were two important factors in distinguishing between a word with and without weak syllable. Even though the high English proficiency Koreans had faster reaction time than the low English proficiency Koreans, all Korean learners had a difficulty in perceiving the weak syllable at the beginning of a word.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.685-688
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• 2018

의존 구문 분석은 자연어 문장에 포함된 단어들 간의 의존 관계를 분석하는 과제로 다양한 자연어 이해 과제에 요구되는 핵심 기술 중 하나이다. 본 연구에서는 단어와 문자 자질을 적용한 기존 Stack-Pointer Network의 인코더의 입력 단어 표상을 확장하여, 한국어를 비롯한 형태적으로 복잡한 언어(morphologically rich language)에 적합하도록 음절-태그 단위, 형태소 단위, 형태소 품사 정보 자질을 보강한 의존 구문 분석 모델을 제안한다. 실험 결과 제안하는 모델은 의존 구조로 변환된 세종 구문 분석 말뭉치에서 UAS 90.58%, LAS 88.35%의 성능을, 2018 국어 정보 처리 시스템 경진 대회 평가 데이터에서 UAS 84.69%, LAS 82.02%의 성능을 보였다. 더불어 제안하는 모델은 포함된 문장의 전체 길이가 긴 의존 관계, 의존소와 지배소의 거리가 먼 의존 관계, 의존소를 구성하는 형태소의 개수가 많은 의존 관계에서 기존 Stack-Pointer Network보다 향상된 성능을 보였다.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.43-56
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• 2005

This study was analyzed the syllable structure of Korean and Chinese using subjective sound similarity judgement tasks with both Korean-chinese and Chinese students in Shenyang, China. 86 college students were administered with the tasks which lasted about 20 min. in a small group setting. Both Korean-chinese and Chinese students showed the sensitivity for the CV sub-syllabic unit and the CV+C was the building block for phonetic representation for both languages. This syllabic similarity of Korean and Chinese may be a help for Korean-chinese to become horizontal bilinguals. Further studies are needed to specify the mechanism that will explain the syllabic perception of CV+C in both Korean and Chinese which was different from that of C+VC structure dominance in English.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.237-248
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• 2003

This paper compares the syllable structure of French and Korean analyzing the speech data of these two languages recorded during the actual speech. Reference to the syllable structure of French is made from F. Wioland's research data. As for the Korean data, the primary data are drawn from the 30-minute radio interview in which two male TV anchors in their early 60s talk to each other. The secondary source of the data is collected by having the primary data replicated by the two male announcers in their early 20's broadcasting in the university ra야o station of KAIST. With reference to the data collected in French and Korean, this paper provides the statistical frequency of each type of syllable structure in each language through the acoustic analysis of the spectrograms and renders a phonetic account of the characteristics of each syllable type in the two languages. Also discussed in this paper is the distributional condition in which each syllable structure is laid out in the speech context.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.170-172
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to examine the syllable structures of ten Korean numeric sounds produced by ten subjects of the same age. Each sound was normalized and divided into onset, vowel, and coda sections. Then, acoustical measurements of each syllable were done to compare the ten sounds. Results showed that there was not much deviation from the grand average duration and intensity for the majority of the sounds except the two diphthongal sounds on which their boundary points varied among the speakers. Some syllable boundaries were quite obvious while others were ambiguous. There seemed some tradeoff among the syllable components depending on their acoustic features.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.08a
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• pp.401-405
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• 1998

SVAPI 1.0 환경에서의 어구 종속 화자 확인 시스템에 대해 기술한다. 구현된 시스템은 궁극적으로 공중 전화망 응용이 가능한 실용 시스템을 목표로 개발되었으며 이를 위해 SVAPI 위원회에 의해 제안된 SVAPI 1.0을 개발 환경으로 사용하였다. SVAPI는 객체 지향 구조, 클라이언트-서버 및 telephony 환경의 지원등이 특징이며 어플리케이션과 엔진을 독립적으로 개발할 수 있는 이점을 제공한다. 구현된 데모 시스템은 펜티엄 프로세서와 Windows95/NT 4.0 운영체제 그리고 Win16/Win32 API를 통해 제어 가능하며 음성 입력이 가능한 디바이스를 장착한 IBM 호환 PC이다. 화자의 성문 등록은 화자가 동일한 어구를 3회 발성하여 이뤄지며 등록과 확인의 응답속도는 모두 1초 이내이다. 소프트웨어의 구성은 크게 어플리케이션과 어구 종속 화자 확인 엔진으로 구분할 수 있으며 엔진은 끝점 검출 알고리즘, 음성 특징 추출 알고리즘 그리고 연속 HMM 기반의 화자 성문 모델 등록 및 유사도 계산 등을 포함한 확인 알고리즘으로 구성되어 있다. 화자의 성문은이름과 같은 약 3음절 이상의 단어로 등록되고 테스트되었다. 엔진의 객관적인 평가를 위해 전화선을 통해 남자 6명, 여자 3명의 화자로부터 자신의 이름을 각각 40회 발성하여 구축된 음성 데이터 베이스를 사용하였으며 실험 결과 남자는 2.85%, 여자는 2.44%의 EER을 각각 얻었다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.672-675
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• 1999

In this paper, we propose a MLP neural network architecture and feature extraction for Korean syllable recognition. In the proposed syllable recognition system, firstly onset is classified by onset classification neural network. And the results information of onset classification neural network are used for feature selection of imput patterns vector. The feature extraction of Korean syllables is based on sonority. Using the threshold rate separate the syllable. The results of separation are used for feature of onset. nucleus and coda. ETRI's SAMDORI has been used by speech DB. The recognition rate is 96% in the speaker dependent and 93.3% in the speaker independent.

• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.159-175
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• 2004

This paper investigated the types of errors on English pronunciation and intelligibility of Korean EFL students, and the relationship between the pronunciation accuracy and intelligibility. Thirty one students were evaluated by six English native speakers in terms of overall intelligibility and accuracy In five areas such as nuclear stress, word stress, syllable structure, consonants and vowels. According to the findings of the study, pronunciation errors were made by the subjects more frequently In word stress than any other area of pronunciation accuracy. The Pearson correlation analysis showed that intelligibility was related with word stress, syllable structure, consonants and vowels, and the stepwise multiple regression analysis indicated that, among the above five areas of pronunciation accuracy, word stress best accounted for the intelligibility of a given sentence. In the conclusion, the importance of teaching pronunciation of in those five areas with a special focus on word stress was emphasized m terms of intelligibility.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.285-288
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 발화 유형을 대화체와 낭독체의 두 가지로 구분하여 각 발화 유형에서 억양구를 형성하는 특징을 살펴보았다. 실험 결과, 한 문장 내에 두 개 이상의 억양구가 생성되는 경우와 접속문의 경우에는 낭독체에서 더 많은 억양구가 형성되었다. 대화체에서 더 많은 억양구가 형성되는 경우는 주로 주어 다음에 억양구가 형성되는 경우이며, 대화체 발화에서는 한 문장내에 두 개 이상의 억양구가 형성된 경우는 존재하지 않았다. 이러한 실험 결과를 바탕으로 억양구의 형성이 음절수뿐만 아니라 문장의 구조에 영향을 받으며, 이 두 가지 요인이 발화 유형에 따라 다르게 적용된다는 운율적 특징을 파악할 수 있다.

• MALSORI
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• no.35_36
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• pp.13-24
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• 1998

This study aims at examining the relationship between tonal events and their related vowel and syllable duration in Korean. Two things were investigated: one is to see if there is a hierarchical relationship in prosodic unit-final-lengthening and the other is to see if accentual phrase initial high tone syllable gets lengthened. Generally, higher prosodic units show larger degree of lengthening of the final vowel and also final syllable duration than the lower ones except for accentual phrase: Mean duration of utterance-final or intonational-phrase-final syllable(and its vowels) was longer than that of accentual-phrase-final or word-final syllable(and its vowels). However, mean duration of accentual phrase final syllable was shorter than that of word final syllable. Mean vowel duration of accentual phrase initial high tone syllable was shorter than that of any other prosodic unit. Its mean syllable duration, however, was longer than that of accentual-phrase-final or word-final syllable, indicating that strong consonants(fortis and aspirated) frequently appear in the accentual phrase initial position and this position is a prosodically strong position showing longer duration as well as high tone.