• 제목/요약/키워드: Korean consonants

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Speech Perception and Production of English Postvocalic Voicing by Korean and English Speakers

  • Chang, Woo-Hyeok
    • 음성과학
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    • 제13권2호
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    • pp.107-120
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    • 2006
  • The main purpose of this study is to investigate whether Korean learners can use the vowel duration cue to distinguish voicing contrasts in word-final consonants in English. Given that the Korean group's performance on the auditory task was much better than their performance on the identification task or on the production task, we conclude that the AX discrimination task makes contact with a different layer of perception. In particular, the AX discrimination task can be done at the auditory or phonetic level, where differences in vowel length are still encoded in the representation. In contrast, the identification and production tasks are probing the mental representation of vowel length and voicing. It was also founded that Korean speakers stored neither vowel length nor voicing in memorized representations and did not internalize the lengthening of the preceding vowel as a rule to differentiate the voicing contrasts of final consonants, even though they were able to detect the acoustic differences in vowel duration provided that they were tested in an appropriate task.

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A Survey of the Korean Learner's Problems in Learning English Pronunciation

  • Youe, Hansa-Mahn-Gunn
    • 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한음성학회 2000년도 7월 학술대회지
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    • pp.7-16
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    • 2000
  • It is a great honour for me to speak to you today on the Korean's problems in learning English pronunciation. First of all I would like to thank Prof. H. B. Lee, President of the Phonetic Society of Korea for calling upon me to make a keynote speech at this International Conference on Phonetic Sciences. The year before last when the 1 st Joint Summit on English Phonetics was held at Aichi Gakuin University in Japan, the warm hospitality given to me and my colleagues by the English Phonetic Society of Japan was so great that I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to the members of the English Phonetic Society of Japan and especially to Prof. Masaki Tsuzuki, President of the Society. Korean learners of English have a lot of problems in learning English pronunciation. Some vowel problems seem to be shared by Japanese learners but other problems, especially in consonants, are peculiar to Koreans owing to the nature of phonological rules peculiar to the Korean language. Of course, there are other important problems like speech rhythm and intonation besides vowels and consonants. But they will not be included here because of limited time.

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Switched Capacitor Filter를 이용한 한국어자음합성에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Korean Consonants Synthesis using Switched-Capaciter Filter)

  • 이영훈;이대영
    • 한국통신학회논문지
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    • 제9권1호
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    • pp.30-38
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    • 1984
  • 本論文에서는 中心周波數를 클럭周波數에 의해 線型的으로 변화시킬 수 있고 選揮度와 最大利得은 캐패시터 array에 의해 디지틀信號로 制擧할 수 있는 프로그램 可能한 2次SC filter를 構成하였다. 또한 이 filter를 이용하여 formant音聲合成시스템을 構成하고 韓國誤子音을 合成함으로써 이 filter를 가지고 韓國語의 대부분이 吟聲을 實時間으로 合成할 수 있다는 可能性을 보였다.

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Temporal Variation Due to Tense vs. Lax Consonants in Korean

  • Yun, II-Sung
    • 음성과학
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    • 제11권3호
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    • pp.23-36
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    • 2004
  • Many languages show reverse durational variation between preceding vowel and following voiced/voiceless (lax/tense) consonants. This study investigated the likely effects of phoneme type (tense vs. lax) on the timing structure (duration of syllable, word, phrase and sentence) of Korean. Three rates of speech (fast, normal, slow) applied to stimuli with the target word /a-Ca/ where /C/ is one of /p, p', $p^h$/. The type (tense/lax) of /C/ caused marked inverse durational variations in the two syllables /a/ and /Ca/ and highly different durational ratios between them. Words with /p', $p^h$/ were significantly longer than that with /p/, which contrasts with many other languages where such pairs of words have a similar duration. The differentials between words remained up to the phrase and sentence level, but in general the higher linguistic units did not statistically differ within each level. Thus, the phrase is suggested as a compensatory unit of phoneme type effects in Korean. Different rates did not affect the general tendency. Distribution of time variations (from normal to fast and slow) to each syllable (/a/ and /Ca/) was also observed.

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Affixation effects on word-final coda deletion in spontaneous Seoul Korean speech

  • Kim, Jungsun
    • 말소리와 음성과학
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    • 제8권4호
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    • pp.9-14
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    • 2016
  • This study investigated the patterns of coda deletion in spontaneous Seoul Korean speech. More specifically, the current study focused on three factors in promoting coda deletion, namely, word position, consonant type, and morpheme type. The results revealed that, first, coda deletion frequently occurred when affixes were attached to the ends of words, rather than in affixes in word-internal positions or in roots. Second, alveolar consonants [n] and [l] in the coda positions of high-frequency affixes [nɨn] and [lɨl] were most likely to be deleted. Additionally, regarding affix reduction in the word-final position, all subjects seemed to depend on this articulatory strategy to a similar degree. In sum, the current study found that affixes without primary semantic content in spontaneous speech tend to undergo the process of reduction, favoring the occurrence of specific pronunciation variants.

퍼지추론을 이용한 한국어 자음분류에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Consonant Classification Using Fuzzy Inference)

  • 박경식
    • 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국음향학회 1992년도 학술논문발표회 논문집 제11권 1호
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    • pp.71-75
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    • 1992
  • This paper proposes algorithm in order to classify Korean consonant phonemes same as polosives, fricatives affricates into la sounds, glottalized sounds, aspirated sounds. This three kinds of sounds are one of distinctive characters of the Korean language which don't eist in language same as English. This is thesis on classfication of 14 Korean consonants(k, t, p, s, c, k', t', p', s', c', kh, ph, ch) as a previous stage for Korean phone recognition. As feature sets for classification, LPC cepstral analysis. The eperiments are two stages. First, using short-time speech signal analysis and Mahalanobis distance, consonant segments are detected from original speech signal, then the consonants are classified by fuzzy inference. As the results of computer simulations, the classification rate of the speech data was come to 93.75%.

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한글문자 인식에 관한 연구(II)(한글자모의 인식 Code와 display) (Recognition of Printed Korean Characters(II))

  • 이주근
    • 대한전자공학회논문지
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    • 제7권3호
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    • pp.5-11
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    • 1970
  • 이 연구는 연구(I)의 계속연구로서 한글자음과 모음의 특징추출에 의한 coding방법과 그의 display에 대해서 검토하였다. 문자를 3x5mesh의 Matrix로서 양자화해서 그의 특징을 변수로한 2단 matrix에 의하여 문자 pattern을 발생하고, 또 발생된 특징 pattern을 다시 논리집합하여 단일 Serial coding 방법을 제시하였다. 이 code는 한글 자모의 원문자가 재생되며, 모든 자모는 각각 15개의 흑백 bit로서 구성된다. 24개 한글자음과 모음에 대해서 coding하였으며, 이론치와 측정치가 잘 일치함을 보았고 그것이 또한 완전히 재현됨을 이 연구에서 알맞게 설계된 display로서 확인하였다.

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한국어의 변이음 규칙과 변이음의 결정 요인들 (Allophonic Rules and Determining Factors of Allophones in Korean)

  • 이호영
    • 대한음성학회지:말소리
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    • 제21_24호
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    • pp.144-175
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    • 1992
  • This paper aims to discuss determining factors of Korean allophones and to formulate and classify Korean allophonic rules systematically. The relationship between allophones and coarticulation, the most. influential factor of allophonic variation, is thoroughly investigated. Other factors -- speech tempo and style, dialect, and social factors such as age, set, class etc. -- are also briefly discussed. Allophonic rules are classified into two groups -- 3) those relevant to coarticulation and 2) those irrelevant to coarticulation. Rules of the first group are further classified into four subgroups according to the directionality of the coarticulation. Each allophonic nile formulation is explained and discussed in detai1. The allophonic rules formulated and classified in this paper are 1) Devoicing of Voiced Consonants, 2) Devoicing of Vowels, 3) Nasal Approach and Lateral Approach, 4) Uvularization, 5) Palatalization, 6) Voicing of Voiceless Lax Consonants, 7) Frication, 8) Labialization, 9) Nasalization, 10) Release Withholding and Release Masking, 11) Glottalization, 12) Flap Rule, 13) Vowel Weakening, and 14) Allophones of /ㅚ, ㅟ, ㅢ/ (which are realized as diphthongs or as monophthongs depending on phonetic contexts).

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Korean Native Speakers' Perception of English Sounds According to the Groupings of Phonetic Contrasts

  • Kim, Gi-Na;Kim, Soo-Jin
    • 음성과학
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    • 제10권1호
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    • pp.59-67
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate Korean native speakers' perception of English sounds according to groupings of phonetic contrasts. The four groupings looked at were vowels, voicing (voiced-unvoiced), fricatives with difference in place of articulation, and other clusters of specific sound contrasts, such as stop-fricatives and liquids. The position of a sound in syllable was also examined. According to the results of ANOVA and a post-hoc analysis, the perception of vowels, in the medial position was different from that of consonants in the initial and final position. Vowels proved to be the most difficult group to perceive correctly. With the consonants, there was not a big difference whether the contrasts came initially or finally. The order of difficulty was liquids, fricatives, stop-fricatives, and finally voicing.

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HANDWRITTEN HANGUL RECOGNITION MODEL USING MULTI-LABEL CLASSIFICATION

  • HANA CHOI
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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    • 제27권2호
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    • pp.135-145
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    • 2023
  • Recently, as deep learning technology has developed, various deep learning technologies have been introduced in handwritten recognition, greatly contributing to performance improvement. The recognition accuracy of handwritten Hangeul recognition has also improved significantly, but prior research has focused on recognizing 520 Hangul characters or 2,350 Hangul characters using SERI95 data or PE92 data. In the past, most of the expressions were possible with 2,350 Hangul characters, but as globalization progresses and information and communication technology develops, there are many cases where various foreign words need to be expressed in Hangul. In this paper, we propose a model that recognizes and combines the consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants of a Korean syllable using a multi-label classification model, and achieves a high recognition accuracy of 98.38% as a result of learning with the public data of Korean handwritten characters, PE92. In addition, this model learned only 2,350 Hangul characters, but can recognize the characters which is not included in the 2,350 Hangul characters