• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.395-404
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• 2019

This study investigates the interactivity of smart LMS. To this end, smart LMS was used for one semester in the English course for economics majors and the surveys about its interactivity were conducted. The findings show that smart LMS enhanced the interaction between instructors and students, between students and students, and between students and learning contents. Especially in the classroom, the activity bulletin made possible the instructor's immediate feedback about team-based activity outcomes. Also, outside the classroom, Wiki made it convenient for students to collaborate with each other. In addition, activity outcomes in the activity bulletin and course materials uploaded on smart LMS contributed to the interactivity. However, what is recommended to do to increase the interactivity are to prepare instructional strategies for students to get used to using smart LMS and smartphones as their learning tool, to test the target systems of smart LMS in advance, and to take proper actions to solve the problems of smartphone's data and battery.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.6 no.12
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• pp.186-191
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• 2006

The perception of English labial consonants was investigated via experiment where 40 Korean EFL learners identified nonwords with the target labial consonants [p, b, f, v] in 4 different prosodic locations: initial onset position, intervocalic position before stress, intervocalic position after stress, and final coda position. The overall result showed that the proportion of perception accuracy of the target consonants was rather low, amounting to only 55%. There was also a positional effect since the accuracy rates for perceiving the four target consonants differed by position. Specifically, the average accuracy rate of the target consonant identification was higher in intervocalic position before stress (70%) and initial onset position (67%) than in intervocalic position after stress (45%) and final coda position (36%). Further, the accuracy rate for [f] is was high in all prosodic locations except intervocalic position after stress. The perception patterns were accounted for by the markedness and perceptual factors in conjunction with stress location.

• MALSORI
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• no.37
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• pp.119-128
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• 1999

이 논문의 목적은 일본 학생들의 영어 청취 능력에 대한 확실한 평가를 내릴 수 있는 청취판별테스트를 개발하는 데에 있다. 이 테스트를 통하여 일본사람들이 범하는 청취 오류를 평가, 분석하고 일본어의 음성·음운체계가 이러한 오류에 미치는 영향을 평가한다. 테스트의 결과는 청취 및 발음훈련에 적용될 수 있으므로 일본인의 영어 능력을 향상시키는데 공헌할 수 있을 것이다.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.7-16
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• 1999

Starting as a poet, I learned about the sounds of words with David Abercrombie. Then, remembering my background in physics, I moved to studying acoustic phonetics and speech synthesis. From there I learned about psychology and how. to test perceptual theories. A meeting with a physiologist led to work on the use of the respiratory muscles in speech. Later I landed in Africa teaching English phonetics and learning about African languages. When I went to UCLA to set up a lab I was able to find bright students who helped make computer models of the vocal tract and taught me linguistic theory. And I was able to continue wandering around the world, describing the sounds of a wide range of languages.

• 한국항공운항학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.121-126
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• 2015

국제민간항공기구는 항공안전을 도모하는 차원에서 ICAO 항공영어제도(ICAO LPRs)의 국제 표준을 제정하였다. 이에 따라 우리나라는 2005년 11월 8일 항공법을 개정하여 항공영어능력증명시험(EPTA)을 만들었다. 본 연구는 항공영어제도의 문제점을 분석하고 개선하는데 목적이 있다. 조사는 우리 항공영어제도와 해외사례를 비교하고 문제점을 분석하였다. 연구결과, 우리 항공영어제도와 ICAO 항공영어제도, 다른 나라 항공영어제도 사이에 차이점들이 나타나고 개선이 필요한 것으로 조사되었다. 개선은 직무연관성을 보강하는 방향으로 문항개선과 등급제도 개선 방안 등을 제시하였다.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.7-19
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• 2007

The present study investigates the so-called frequency inheritance effect in word production. According to some earlier studies (e.g. Jescheniak & Levelt, 1994), retrieval of a low-frequency homophone benefits from its high-frequency homophone twin, and more specifically word-retrieval RT is determined by the frequency of the phonological form of the word (sum of homophone frequencies) rather than the frequency of the specific word. This result, however, has been challenged by later studies (e.g. Caramazza et al., 2001) and one possible resolution is that languages differ in the extent to which the inheritance effect occurs. Two experiments are reported to test whether the frequency inheritance effect depends on the target language, namely, if a language such as Korean with relatively many homophones tend not to show frequency inheritance, which is compared with the language with fewer homophones such as Dutch and German (Jescheniak & Levelt, 1994; Jescheniak et al., 2003). Experiment 1 was picture naming, and Experiment 2 used an English-to-Korean translation task. In both experiments, the homophones were actually slower than the low-frequency controls, suggesting that there was no evidence for the inheritance effect. These results imply that the issue of whether specific word or homophone frequency determines production can be properly assessed by taking into account the language-specific nature of the lexicon such as the percentage of the homophone words in that language.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.78-83
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• 2007

The purpose of present study was to investigate the characteristics of disfluency between the Korean-English bilingual and Korean monolingual children, matched by their chronological age with the bilingual children. Twenty-eight children, 14 bilingual children and 14 monolingual children participated in this study. The experimental tasks consisted of the play situation and the task situation. The conclusion is (a) The score of total disfluency of the bilingual was significantly higher than that of the monolingual. The score of normal disfluency of the bilingual was significantly higher than that of the monolingual. The most frequent type is Interjection in both groups. All shows higher score in the task situation than the play situation. The bilingual children have quantitative and qualitative differences in disfluency score and types from the monolingual. (b) The bilingual were divided into two groups such as 6 Korean-dominant bilingual and 8 English-dominant bilingual. All shows more disfluency in their non-dominant language. The most frequent type is Interjection in both groups. (c) The higher the chronological age and the expressive language test score is, the lower the disfluency score is. The earlier the exposure age to the 2nd language is, the higher the disfluency score is. There is no correlation between resident month at foreign country and the disfluency.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.313-326
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• 2020

Deep Learning is the most important key to the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). There are several distinguishable architectures of neural networks such as MLP, CNN, and RNN. Among them, we try to understand one of the main architectures called Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) that differs from other networks in handling sequential data, including time series and texts. As one of the main tasks recently in Natural Language Processing (NLP), we consider Neural Machine Translation (NMT) using RNNs. We also summarize fundamental structures of the recurrent networks, and some topics of representing natural words to reasonable numeric vectors. We organize topics to understand estimation procedures from representing input source sequences to predict target translated sequences. In addition, we apply multiple translation models with Gated Recurrent Unites (GRUs) in Keras on English-Korean sentences that contain about 26,000 pairwise sequences in total from two different corpora, colloquialism and news. We verified some crucial factors that influence the quality of training. We found that loss decreases with more recurrent dimensions and using bidirectional RNN in the encoder when dealing with short sequences. We also computed BLEU scores which are the main measures of the translation performance, and compared them with the score from Google Translate using the same test sentences. We sum up some difficulties when training a proper translation model as well as dealing with Korean language. The use of Keras in Python for overall tasks from processing raw texts to evaluating the translation model also allows us to include some useful functions and vocabulary libraries as well.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.7-18
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• 2008

The purpose of the present study is to test whether VOT values of the Korean plain stops in intervocalic position are encoded differently by individual speakers. In Scobbie (2006), the VOT values to the /p/-/b/ voicing contrast in Shetland Isles English were found to demonstrate a high degree of inter-speaker variation. More importantly such variation was not arbitrary: first, there was an inverse relationship between the amount of prevoicing for /b/ and the duration of aspiration for /p/. Second, the inter-speaker variation was shown to be similar between the subjects and their parents. These results suggest that the phonetic targets for VOT are specified in fine detail by speakers. The present study further explores this issue in terms of testing 1) whether the likelihood and the amount of voicing for the intervocalic plain stops in Korean show inter-speaker variation; 2) whether the likelihood and the exact amount of voicing for the intervocalic plain stops in Korean are closely related to the amount of aspiration for the Korean intervocalic aspirated stops. The results of the study suggest that the voicing of intervocalic plain stops in Korean varied according to the individual speakers, but it did not seem to be directly interrelated with the amount of aspiration of the aspirated stop sin the same phonological position.

• Korean Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.239-244
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• 2012

This study aims to analysis the curriculum problems and its improvements and to investigate curricula satisfaction among the students majoring in Clinical Pathology. A college used as a population, and 80 effective survey data were collected by sampling the graduates who carried out the clinical field training in third grade year. For statistical analysis of the collected data, the Stata(version 12.0) statistical package was used for frequency analysis, pearson correlations test and multiple regression analysis. The results of the analysis were as follows; First, the result showed that the synthetical theory curriculum has an positive effect on curricula satisfaction. Second, it was found that extension of both the clinical field training and laboratory and practice education have an significant influence direction of positiveness on curricula satisfaction. Third, as the problems of curriculum, the students selected shortage of english subjects connected with the job. We must intensify additional subjects (english ability) for job as the improvement of curriculum. Accordingly, academic, industrial circles and students are supposed to jointly seek for the plan for the enhancement of clinical field training satisfaction.