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Exploring Perception on the Swimming Rating System

  • Hyo Rim KIM;Jae Woong KIM;Myung Seok SEO
    • Journal of Sport and Applied Science
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.1-5
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    • 2023
  • Purpose: The purpose of the study is to analyze the perception of swimming rating system. Research design, data, and methodology: In this study, practitioners and leaders of Korean swimming federation were selected as the subjects of the study to institutionalize the grade of swimming. Data analysis was categorized according to word frequency after coding using the Nvivo 12.0 program, and words were visualized using the word cloud program. PASW/WIN 21.0 was employed to analyze demographic characteristics. Triangular verification and expert meetings were conducted three times to increase the validity of the study. In these meetings, the study excluded subjective interpretation and errors of the researcher. Results: First, as a result of analyzing the perception of practitioners before educational training, 16 words and the total frequency of words was 21 times. Second, as a result of analyzing the perception of practitioners after educational training, 22 words and a total of 25 frequencies were found. Third, as a result of analyzing the leader's perception before educational training, 32 words and the total frequency of words was 63 times. Fourth, as a result of analyzing the leader's perception after educational training, 41 words and a total of 72 frequencies were found. Conclusions: Findings indicated divers feelings and thoughts of practitioners and leaders of Korean swimming federations towards swimming rating system. Further implications were discussed.

The exploration of the effects of word frequency and word length on Korean word recognition (한국어 단어재인에 있어서 빈도와 길이 효과 탐색)

  • Lee, Changhwan;Lee, Yoonhyoung;Kim, Tae Hoon
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.54-61
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    • 2016
  • Because a word is the basic unit of language processing, studies of the word recognition processing and the variables that contribute to word recognition processing are very important. Word frequency and word length are recognized as important factors on word recognition. This study examined the effects of those two variables on the Korean word recognition processing. In Experiment 1, two types of Hangul words, pure Hangul words and Hangul words with Hanja counterparts, were used to explore the frequency effects. A frequency effect was not observed for Hangul words with Hanja counterparts. In Experiment 2, the word length was manipulated to determine if the word length effect appears in Hangul words. Contrary to the expectation, one syllable words were processed more slowly than two syllable words. The possible explanations for these results and future research directions are discussed.

The Differences of Naming by Word Frequency, Length, and Animacy in Nonfluent Aphasic Patients (비유창성 실어증 환자의 단어빈도 및 길이, 생물성에 따른 이름대기 수행의 차이)

  • Kwon, Jung Hee;Choi, Hyun Joo
    • 재활복지
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.171-188
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate effects of three conditions-words frequency, word length, and animacy-on the performance of naming in nonfluent aphasic patients. 15 nonfluent aphasic patients and 15 normal adults were participated in this study. The words consist only of concrete nouns and confrontational naming test was used. The test consisted of 40 questions and the condition of word were frequency(low-frequency/high-frequency), length(1 syllable/3 syllables) and animacy(animate/inanimate). The result of the study was as follows. First, naming was performed better with high-frequency words than with low-frequency words in both groups. Second, naming was performed better with 1 syllable words than with 3 syllable words in both groups. Third, naming performance depending on animacy did not show significant differences in both groups. These results indicate that compared to animacy of word, word frequency and length have bigger influence on the naming, and the difference by word frequency was more pronounced for nonfluent aphasic patients than for normal adults. The results of this study suggest that target word for the assessment and intervention of nonfluent aphasic patients, words frequency should be considered first in clinical setting.

An Analysis of Scientific Concepts Pre-service Elementary School Teachers Have through Semantic Network Analysis (의미 네트워크 분석법을 활용한 초등 예비교사들이 생각하는 과학에 대한 의미 분석)

  • Kim, Dong-Ryeul
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.327-345
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    • 2013
  • This study aims to investigate how pre-service elementary school teachers understand 'something scientific', 'being scientific', 'scientific events' and 'scientific questions' through semantic network analysis. To achieve this purpose, this study carried out a central analysis of the frequency and density of words and the degree of connection between key words, a concentric analysis, a click analysis and a common network analysis through text semantic network analysis by using NetMiner 4.0 Program. Based on the results of these analyses, this study came to the following conclusions. Firstly, in perceiving 'something scientific', pre-service elementary school teachers recognized 'verification', 'objective' and 'experiment' as most important words. In other words, they perceived that main grounds for something scientific should be provided through clear facts, possible to be verified and accompanied by an exact and logical theoretical system. In regard to 'being scientific', they perceived 'explanation', 'objective' and 'verification' as most important words, while having a traditional point of view that science is a set that can be explained objectively. Secondly, in regard that the term, 'observation', is contained in 'scientific events', they showed a high rate of understanding it as a scientific event. In regard to scientifical reasons, they showed the highest frequency of 'observation', and for unscientific reasons, they showed the highest frequency of 'behavior'. In perceiving 'scientific questions', they showed the highest frequency of determining bacteria-related questions as scientific. As a reason why they thought as scientific, they mentioned 'observation' most frequently like 'scientific events', while mentioning 'value judgement' as a reason why they thought as unscientific most frequently. From the results of integrated network analysis, this study found out that words pre-service teachers commonly used in stating scientific events or scientific questions were overlapped with words they mentioned for scientific events or scientific questions. As a result, it was found there were many pre-service teachers having interpreted scientific words without clearly distinguishing scientific events or scientific questions.

Word Frequency-Based Big Data Analysis for the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty (조선왕조실록 분석을 위한 단어 빈도수 기반 빅 데이터 분석)

  • Bong, Young-Il;Lee, Choong-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2022.05a
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    • pp.707-709
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    • 2022
  • Annals of the Joseon Dynasty is a librarian that compiled the history of the Joseon Dynasty for 472 years, from Taejo to Cheoljong. The Annals of the Joseon Dynasty, National Treasure No. 151, are important documented heritages, but they are difficult to analyze due to their vast content. Therefore, rather than analyzing all the contents of the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty, it is necessary to extract and analyze important words. In this paper, we propose a method of extracting words from the main body of the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty through web crawling and analyzing the translated texts of the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty based on the data sorted according to the frequency of words. In this study, only the part of King Sejong of the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty was extracted and the importance was analyzed according to the frequency of words.

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Four-Year-Old Children's Counting Skills and Their Mothers' Use of Number Words: The Mediating Role of Children's Number Word Use (4세 유아의 수세기 기술과 어머니의 수 단어 사용: 유아 수 단어 사용의 매개효과)

  • Jihyeon Park;Youjeong Park;Yujin Lee;Sunjung Baik;Sukyoung Choe
    • Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.79-95
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    • 2023
  • Objective: This study examines the relationships among four-year-olds' counting skills, their use of number words, and their mothers' use of number words during mother-child free play. Specifically, we assess whether children's use of number words mediates the relationship between their counting skills and their mothers' use of number words during play. Methods: Forty-two 4-year-old children and their mothers were asked to play freely with a given set of toys at their home for 10 minutes. Children also completed a counting skill test. Frequencies of number word use were calculated for mothers and children from transcriptions of the free play. Results: Children's counting skills, the frequency of their number word use, and their mothers' frequency of number word use were positively correlated with each other. Additionally, the frequency of children's number-word use completely mediated the relationship between their counting skills and their mothers' frequency of number-word use. Conclusion/Implications: The results suggest that children's use of number language may play a crucial role in the provision of number-related language input by parents, based on their children's math skills. Practical implications of the findings are discussed.

English vowel production conditioned by probabilistic accessibility of words: A comparison between L1 and L2 speakers

  • Jonny Jungyun Kim;Mijung Lee
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2023
  • This study investigated the influences of probabilistic accessibility of the word being produced - as determined by its usage frequency and neighborhood density - on native and high-proficiency L2 speakers' realization of six English monophthong vowels. The native group hyperarticulated the vowels over an expanded acoustic space when the vowel occurred in words with low frequency and high density, supporting the claim that vowel forms are modified in accordance with the probabilistic accessibility of words. However, temporal expansion occurred in words with greater accessibility (i.e., with high frequency and low density) as an effect of low phonotactic probability in low-density words, particularly in attended speech. This suggests that temporal modification in the opposite direction may be part of the phonetic characteristics that are enhanced in communicatively driven focus realization. Conversely, none of these spectral and temporal patterns were found in the L2 group, thereby indicating that even the high-proficiency L2 speakers may not have developed experience-based sensitivity to the modulation of sub-categorical phonetic details indexed with word-level probabilistic information. The results are discussed with respect to how phonological representations are shaped in a word-specific manner for the sake of communicatively driven lexical intelligibility, and what factors may contribute to the lack of native-like sensitivity in L2 speech.

The Syllable Type and Token Frequency Effect in Naming Task (명명 과제에서 음절 토큰 및 타입 빈도 효과)

  • Kwon, Youan
    • Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.91-107
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    • 2014
  • The syllable frequency effect is defined as the inhibitory effect that words starting with high frequency syllable generate a longer lexical decision latency and a larger error rate than words starting with low frequency syllable do. Researchers agree that the reason of the inhibitory effect is the interference from syllable neighbors sharing a target's first syllable at the lexical level and the degree of the interference effect correlates with the number of syllable neighbors or stronger syllable neighbors which have a higher word frequency. However, although the syllable frequency can be classified as the syllable type and token frequency, previous studies in visual word recognition have used the syllable frequency without the classification. Recently Conrad, Carreiras, & Jacobs (2008) demonstrated that the syllable type frequency might reflect a sub-lexical processing level including matching from letters to syllables and the syllable token frequency might reflect competitions between a target and higher frequency words of syllable neighbors in the whole word lexical processing level. Therefore, the present study investigated their proposals using word naming tasks. Generally word naming tasks are more sensitive to sub-lexical processing. Thus, the present study expected a facilitative effect of high syllable type frequency and a null effect of high syllable token frequency. In Experiment 1, words starting with high syllable type frequency generated a faster naming latency than words starting with low syllable type frequency with holding syllable token frequency of them. In Experiment 2, high syllable token frequency also created a shorter naming time than low syllable token frequency with holding their syllable type frequency. For that reason, we rejected the propose of Conrad et al. and suggested that both type and token syllable frequency could relate to the sub-lexical processing.

The Effects of Three Stimulus Modes on receptive Language Performance and expressive Language Performance in Aphasics. (세 가지 자극 양식이 실어증자의 언어이해력과 언어표현력에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Moo-Kyoung;Yoo, Jae-Youn;Lee, Ok-bun;Jeong, Ok-Ran
    • Speech Sciences
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.263-272
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this study was to compare receptive language performance and expressive language performance in 13 patients with aphasia by using three stimulus presentation modes: Stimulus mode I (picture), Stimulus mode II (written word), Stimulus m (question using verbal explanation). The stimulus consisted of 10 words. They included 5 functional words and 5 non-functional words. The 13 subjects with aphasia were divided into 2 aphasic types: 5 Broca's aphasics and 8 anomie aphasics. The results were as follows: Firstly, the three stimulus modes didn't affect receptive language performance of aphasia subjects. Secondly; the three stimulus modes were effective on expressive language performance of aphasia subjects. Particularly, stimulus mode II (written words) was effective in naming the aphasia subjects. Thirdly, the functional words with high frequency were better than non-functional words with low frequency on expressive language performance, but not on receptive language performance of aphasia subjects. Finally, the interaction between three stimulus modes and the functional (nonfunctional) words affected expressive language performance only, but not receptive language performance. Particularly, presenting stimulus in written words which are functional words produced the best expressive language performance.

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Word Frequency Effects on Duration and F0 in English Homophone Utterances

  • Kwon, Soon-Kyo;Jang, Tae-Yeoub
    • Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.227-229
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    • 2007
  • We investigate whether the word frequency effects occur in native speakers' homophone speech in such a way that less frequent words are produced with greater magnitudes in duration and F0 than more frequent words. Acoustic analyses of homophone data produced by four speakers reveal that there is a tendency that vowels in less frequent words get longer than those in more frequent words, and statistical tests verify the significance of their differences. On the other hand, no considerable correlation has been discovered between F0 and word frequency.

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