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Non-word repetition may reveal different errors in naive listeners and second language learners

  • Holliday, Jeffrey J.;Hong, Minkyoung
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2020
  • The perceptual assimilation of a nonnative phonological contrast can change with linguistic experience, resulting in naïve listeners and novice second language (L2) learners potentially assimilating the members of a nonnative contrast to different native (L1) categories. While it has been shown that this sort of change can affect the discrimination of the nonnative contrast, it has not been tested whether such a change could have consequences for the production of the contrast. In this study, L1 speakers of Mandarin Chinese who were (1) naïve to Korean, (2) novice L2 learners, or (3) advanced L2 learners participated in a Korean non-word repetition task using word-initial sibilants. The initial CVs of their repetitions were then played to L1 Korean listeners who categorized the initial consonant. The naïve talkers were more likely to repeat an initial /sha/ as an affricate, whereas the L2 learners repeated it as a fricative, in line with how these listeners have been shown to assimilate Korean sibilants to Mandarin categories. This result suggests that errors in the production of new words presented auditorily to nonnative listeners may be driven by how they perceptually assimilate the nonnative sounds, emphasizing the need to better understand what drives changes in perceptual assimilation that accompany increased linguistic experience.

A Comparative Study on Korean Connective Morpheme '-myenseo' to the Chinese expression - based on Korean-Chinese parallel corpus (한국어 연결어미 '-면서'와 중국어 대응표현의 대조연구 -한·중 병렬 말뭉치를 기반으로)

  • YI, CHAO
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.37
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    • pp.309-334
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    • 2014
  • This study is based on the Korean-Chinese parallel corpus, utilizing the Korean connective morpheme '-myenseo' and contrasting with the Chinese expression. Korean learners often struggle with the use of Korean Connective Morpheme especially when there is a lexical gap between their mother language. '-myenseo' is of the most use Korean Connective Morpheme, it usually contrast to the Chinese coordinating conjunction. But according to the corpus, the contrastive Chinese expression to '-myenseo' is more than coordinating conjunction. So through this study, can help the Chinese Korean language learners learn easier while studying '-myenseo', because the variety Chinese expression are found from the parallel corpus that related to '-myenseo'. In this study, firstly discussed the semantic features and syntactic characteristics of '-myenseo'. The significant semantic features of '-myenseo' are 'simultaneous' and 'conflict'. So in this chapter the study use examples of usage to analyse the specific usage of '-myenseo'. And then this study analyse syntactic characteristics of '-myenseo' through the subject constraint, predicate constraints, temporal constraints, mood constraints, negatives constraints. then summarize them into a table. And the most important part of this study is Chapter 4. In this chapter, it contrasted the Korean connective morpheme '-myenseo' to the Chinese expression by analysing the Korean-Chinese parallel corpus. As a result of the analysis, the frequency of the Chinese expression that contrasted to '-myenseo' is summarized into

    . It can see from the table that the most common Chinese expression comparative to '-myenseo' is non-marker patterns. That means the connection of sentence in Korean can use connective morpheme what is a clarifying linguistic marker, but in Chinese it often connect the sentence by their intrinsic logical relationships. So the conclusion of this chapter is that '-myenseo' can be comparative to Chinese conjunction, expression, non-marker patterns and liberal translation patterns, which are more than Chinese conjunction that discovered before. In the last Chapter, as the conclusion part of this study, it summarized and suggest the limitations and the future research direction.

  • A Vocabulary Analysis and Improvement Plan of Korean textbooks for Chinese learners: focusing on Korean "symbol adverb+predicate" (중국인 학습자를 위한 한국어 교재의 어휘 분석 및 개선 방안 한국어 '상징부사+용언'을 중심으로)

    • Zong, Yi
      • Korean Educational Research Journal
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      • v.42 no.1
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      • pp.35-72
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      • 2021
    • This study is to form develops an effective teaching method centered on the Korean "symbol adverb + predicate" type, helping Chinese students to learn Korean to communicate more accurately when expressing detailed complex feelings and various emotions.Manyforeignlanguage learners try to memorize individual words when they acquire the new vocabulary, this may lead to a problematic in that they cannot use Korean vocabulary accurately and naturally because they do not value the combination of vocabulary words. Since symbolic adverbs are not used in isolation and being frequently used with certain vocabulary words, it is more effective to teach them in the form of instruct learners using "symbol adverb + predicate" forms rather than individual vocabulary words. Accordingly, this research considers a particular vocabulary following symbolic adverbs or vocabulary groups with common semantic qualities that could be frequently introduced. Seven Korean language textbooks used by university in domestic Korea and China are compared and analyzed to reveal the aspects of differences in the use of descriptive words after symbolic adverbs. Finally, based on the textbook analysis results, the government propose a plan to improve the Korean "symbol adverb + predicate" type for Chinese learners. However, this study was limit to being unable to present specific educational measures for Chinese learners in the form of "symbol adverb + predicate". This is expected to complement the limitations of this study in subsequent studies, and lead to more specific discussions.

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    The Recognition and Pedagogy of Chinese Tones (중국어 성조의 인지와 교육)

    • Shim So Hee
      • MALSORI
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      • no.40
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      • pp.65-78
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      • 2000
    • Korean learners of Chinese have diniculties in pronouncing Chinese tones which distinguish the meaning of words, because there are not such tones in Korean language. It makes Koreans hard to acquire Chinese. In this paper, I present the followings: First, I examine the characteristics of the tones pronounced by Korean speakers, exploiting the method of modern experimental phonetics. Second, I present the pedagogy of Chinese tones, considering the typical errors shown by the experiments on Korean speakers. The Pedagogy Presented in this Paper, which is based on the results of experiments, is not perfect. However, I expect this paper to serve as instrumental tools to help Korean speakers to improve their command of Chinese.

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    Vocabulary Teaching through Using Collocations of '나다 and 들다' -Oriented to Chinese Learners of Korean as Foreign Language- ('나다, 들다'의 연어를 활용한 어휘 교육 방안 -중국인 학습자를 대상으로-)

    • Lin, Chunmei
      • Journal of Korean language education
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      • v.28 no.2
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      • pp.89-112
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      • 2017
    • Grammar has long been regarded as an important element in foreign language learning and has received a lot of attention from foreign language learners and researchers. However, in the process of learning, learners will confront an increasing number of words some of which may have multiple meanings. It is not easy for language learners to memorize and master the correct use of these words, especially in terms of pragmatics. Some learners may use the grammar correctly, but their writing or utterance may feel unnatural in discourse. In Korean, '나다, 들다' are two basic verbs, but they have many different meanings which cause a lot of confusion among learners of Korean as a foreign language. In this article, the writer attempts to make a distinction between the collocations of the two verbs '나다, 들다' and provides an effective method for teaching the learners of Korean in China.

    A Study on Correcting Korean Pronunciation Error of Foreign Learners by Using Supporting Vector Machine Algorithm

    • Jang, Kyungnam;You, Kwang-Bock;Park, Hyungwoo
      • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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      • v.8 no.3
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      • pp.316-324
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      • 2020
    • It has experienced how difficult People with foreign language learning, it is to pronounce a new language different from the native language. The goal of various foreigners who want to learn Korean is to speak Korean as well as their native language to communicate smoothly. However, each native language's vocal habits also appear in Korean pronunciation, which prevents accurate information transmission. In this paper, the pronunciation of Chinese learners was compared with that of Korean. For comparison, the fundamental frequency and its variation of the speech signal were examined and the spectrogram was analyzed. The Formant frequencies known as the resonant frequency of the vocal tract were calculated. Based on these characteristics parameters, the classifier of the Supporting Vector Machine was found to classify the pronunciation of Koreans and the pronunciation of Chinese learners. In particular, the linguistic proposition was scientifically proved by examining the Korean pronunciation of /ㄹ/ that the Chinese people were not good at pronouncing.

    The Effects of Reading Pronunciation Training of Korean Phonological Process Words for Chinese Learners (중국인 학습자의 우리말 음운변동 단어의 읽기 발음 훈련효과)

    • Lee, Yu-Ra;Kim, Soo-Jin
      • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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      • v.1 no.1
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      • pp.77-86
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      • 2009
    • This study observes how the combined intervention program effects on the acquisition reading pronunciation of Korean phonological process words and the acquisition aspects of each phonological process rules to four Korean learners whose first language is Chinese. The training program is the combination of multisensory Auditory, Visual and Kinethetic (AVK) approach, wholistic approach, and metalinguistic approach. The training purpose is to evaluate how accurately they read the words of the phonological process which have fortisization, nasalization, lateralization, intermediate sound /ㅅ/ (/${\int}iot"$/). We access how they read the untrained words which include the four factors above. The intervention effects are analyzed by the multiple probe across subjects design. The results indicate that the combined phonological process rule explanation and the words activity intervention affects the four Chinese subjects in every type of word. The implications of the study are these: First, it suggests the effect of Korean pronunciation intervention in a concrete way. Second, it offers how to evaluate the phonological process and how to train people who are learning Korean language.

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    Analysis of Phonemic Errors of Korean Learners According to Language and Proficiency (언어권과 숙달도에 따른 한국어 학습자의 발음 오류 분석 - 음소 오류를 중심으로 -)

    • 유소영;강현화
      • Language Facts and Perspectives
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      • v.44
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      • pp.357-397
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      • 2018
    • The purpose of this paper is to investigate the phonemic errors in Korean learner's spoken corpus. Through this, we tried to investigate the common errors and the errors in certain languages. The results of the analysis were as follows. First, Errors that distinguish three phonemes(plain sound, tense sound, aspiration sound) were high in all languages. In the middle phonemes, the most common errors in pronouncing 'ㅓ' in all languages. Second, the errors of each language are different. Comparing the ratios by position, Chinese characters had the most common errors with 50% in final phoneme, and the Japanese language showed equal errors in initial, middle, and end. In English, initial phoneme errors accounted for 58%. Vietnamese Learners showed intensive errors in the initial and final phoneme. Third, in addition to the phoneme errors, we also examined the allophone errors and foreign language pronunciation errors. The allophone errors are mainly concentrated in 'ㄹ', ​​and the pronunciation of the foreign language is mainly used in the source language or the native language of the learners. This paper analyzes the phoneme errors in the Learner's spoken language through the spoken corpus data with representative and annotation consistency. Through this study, we could compare the difference of phoneme errors of Main Korean learners.

    Aspects of Korean rhythm realization by second language learners: Focusing on Chinese learners of Korean (제 2언어 학습자의 한국어 리듬 실현양상 -중국인 한국어 학습자를 중심으로-)

    • Youngsook Yune
      • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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      • v.15 no.3
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      • pp.27-35
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      • 2023
    • This study aimed to investigate the effect of Chinese on the production of Korean rhythm. Korean and Chinese are typologically classified into different rhythmic categories; because of this, the phonological properties of Korean and Chinese are similar and different at the same time. As a result, Chinese can exert both positive and negative influences on the realization of Korean rhythm. To investigate the influence of the rhythm of the native language of L2 learners on their target language, we conducted an acoustic analysis using acoustic metrics like of the speech of 5 Korean native speakers and 10 advanced Chinese Korean learners. The analyzed material is a short paragraph of five sentences containing a variety of syllable structures. The results showed that KS and CS rhythms are similar in %V, VarcoV, and nPVI_S. However, CS, unlike KS, showed characteristics closer to those of a stress-timed language in the values of %V and VarcoV. There was also a significant difference in nPVI_V values. These results demonstrate a negative influence of the native language in the realization of Korean rhythm. This can be attributed to the fact that all vowels in Chinese sentence are not pronounced with the same emphasis due to neutral tone. In this sense, this study allowed us to observe influences of L1 on L2 production of rhythm.

    Perception and production of English fricatives by Chinese learners of English: Error patterns and perception-production relationship

    • Zhang, Buyi;Zhang, Jiaqi;Lee, Sook-hyang
      • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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      • v.13 no.1
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      • pp.25-36
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      • 2021
    • This study examined the perception and production of eight English fricatives /f/, /v/, /θ/, /ð/, /s/, /z/, /ʃ/, and /ʒ/ by thirty Chinese English majors and thirty Chinese middle school students through a fricative identification test, an intelligibility test, and a goodness rating test and focused on error patterns and the perception-production relationship. The results showed that substitution errors occurred frequently in the perception and production of English fricatives by both the English majors and the middle school students. Further, the error patterns were attributed to various influencing factors such as the negative transfer from Chinese consonant inventory, hypercorrection or overcompensation mistakes, deficiency of L2 teaching, and acoustic similarities. Significant overall correlations were found between the fricative perception and production by the two subject groups but were not manifested in all the eight fricatives, indicating that Chinese learners' perceptual competence of target fricatives was not necessarily tied to their productive excellence of those sounds in all cases. Furthermore, precedences of perception over production were incompletely manifested in the eight fricatives, which suggested that perception might not always be a necessary prerequisite for production. Additionally, subject group and vowel context differences were observed. The English majors performed better than the middle school students, both perceptually and productively, and the subjects' performances in perception and production varied when vowel contexts changed.


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