• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2003년도 5월 학술대회지
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• pp.159-162
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• 2003

In this paper I investigate the intervening consonants constraint in umlaut in Korean. It is generally known that if a palatalized consonant, i.e. s/ㅅ/ or $t{\int}/ㅈ/$ etc, intervenes in an umlaut environment, the expected umlaut process is blocked. But there are not a few words which are thought to have undergone umlaut diachronically: wensu $( If we assume that these words were formed as a result of umlaut, we must explain the reason of the violation of the intervening consonants constraint. On the other hand if we assume that these words were formed as a result of other phonological processes, we must explain these words by ad hoc rules respectively. In this paper I argue that these words including others have undergone the umlaut process by offering some historical and dialectal evidence.

• 인문언어
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.123-139
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• 2001

In the history of linguistics in the world the scholars in India could be regarded as the representative linguists, who had provided the cornerstone of the academic development at linguistics. Without looking into the contents of Indian linguistic theories devised and developed in the past it would be almost impossible to account for the origin of descriptive linguistics and historical linguistics. These linguistics trends became full-fledged in 19 and 20 century and are still accepted by a lot of researchers in order to analyze newly revealed languages and train students only coming up the toddling level of linguistic studies. In this paper I will show how far the influence of Indian linguistics has colored the flow of linguistic growth historically. Especially through the analysis of Panini grammar I will prove the intimate relationship between the Indian linguistic theory and the generative grammar - it is the most active theory at present. The methods that Panini applied to constitute the rules like sutra include lots of information, that also could be discovered at the rules postulated in the generative grammar. One of the common features found at both linguistic theories is the simplicity of rule representation. At the generative grammar a rule has to be established without any redundancy. When certain number of sounds like p, b, m show the same phonological. change relevant to lips (labial in linguistic term) different rules need not to be given for each sound separately. It is better to find a way of putting the sounds together in a rule with grouping the 3 sounds with the shared phonetic feature 'labial'. In Panini grammar the form of a rule was decided based on the simplicity, too. For example, sutra 6.1.77 shows the phonological connection between the vowels i, u r 1 and the semi-vowels y, v, r, 1. However, it does not require to postulate 4 individual rules respectively. Instead a rule in which the vowels and the semi-vowels are involved is suggested, and linguistically the rule make it clear that the more simpler the rules will be the better they can reflect the efficiency of human language acquisition. Although the systems introduced at Panini grammar have some sense of distance from the language education itself we cannot deny the fact that the grammar formulates the a turning point of linguistic development. It is essential for us to think over the grammar from the view point of the modem linguistic theories to understand their root and trunk more thoroughly. It will also help us to predict in which way linguistic tendency will proceed to in future.

• 음성과학
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.41-58
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• 2003

Coronal/non-coronal asymmetry refers to the typological trend wherein coronals rather than non-coronals are more likely targets in place assimilation. Although the phenomenon has been accounted for by resorting to the notion of unmarkedness in formalistic approaches to sound patterns, the examination of rules and representations cannot answer why there should be such a process in the first place. Furthermore, the motivation of coronal/non-coronal asymmetry has remained controversial to date even in the field of phonetics. The present study investigated the listeners' perception of coronal and non-coronal stops in the context of $VC_{1}C_{2}V$ after critically reviewing the three types of phonetic accounts for coronal/non-coronal asymmetry, i.e., articulatory, perceptual, and gestural overlap accounts. An experiment was conducted to test whether the phenomenon in question may occur, given the listeners' lack of perceptual ability to identify weaker place cues in VC transitions as argued by Ohala (1990), i.e., coronals have weak place cues that cause listeners' misperception. 5pliced nonsense $VC_{1}C_{2}V$ utterances were given to 20 native speakers of English and Korean. Data analysis showed that majority of the subjects reported $C_{2}\;as\;C_{1}$. More importantly, the place of articulation of C1 did not affect the listeners' identification. Compared to non-coronals, coronals did not show a significantly lower rate of correct identifications. This study challenges the view that coronal/non-coronal asymmetry is attributable to the weak place cues of coronals, providing evidence that CV cues are more perceptually salient than VC cues. While perceptual saliency account may explain the frequent occurrence of regressive assimilation across languages, it cannot be extended to coronal/non-coronal asymmetry.

• 한국의사학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.23-36
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• 2010

In this paper, this writer looked into the initial law and fortification, which are two of the most important phonetic changes of Sino-Korean words. Pronunciation and inscription rules of Oriental Medical terminologies have also been studied. Moreover, several problems of meaningful rendering of Oriental Medical Chinese terminologies into Korean have been looked into. As a result, the following conclusions could be drawn. 1. The initial law only applies to Sino-Korean words that consist of more than one syllable. It does not apply to words borrowed from foreign languages. Especially, compound words like Jang-ssi-yu-gyeong(張氏類經) or Im-sin-yuk-hyeol(姙娠衄血) consist of already existing words such as Jang-ssi(張氏), Yu-gyeong(類經), Im-sin(姙娠), and Yuk-hyeol(衄血), and thus the initial law applies to these words. They are inscribed and pronounced 'Jang-ssi-yu-gyeong' and 'Im-sin-yuk-hyeol'. 2. Fortification of Sino-Korean words can be applied variously according to the structure and meaning of the words. Words such as '科', '格', '氣', '法', '病', '症', and '證' are often fortified and at the same time used frequently in Oriental Medicine. Also, many other words are derived from these words. However, there has not been a scholastic consent among the Oriental Medical society as to in which circumstances these words will be fortified. Therefore, a standardization process to stipulate the pronunciation of Oriental Medical terminologies is necessary. 3. Meaningful rendering of Oriental Medical Chinese terminologies into Korean also needs scholastic investigation. Especially, the word 兪 should be meaningfully rendered and pronounced 'su' just like the words 輸 and 腧, but is wrongly pronounced 'yu'. Other than this, the words 井滎兪經合, 秦艽, 膻中, 共振丹, 成無已, and 麗澤通氣湯 should respectively be pronounced 'jeong-hyeong-su-gyeong-hap', 'jin-gyo', 'dan-jung', 'gong-sin-dan', 'Seong-mu-yi', and 'Yi-taek-tong-gi-tang'. Moreover, there are four pronunciations to the word 梴 of 李梴. This should also be standardized. This writer proposes that in the future, correct meaningful rendering of Chinese terminologies into Korean and phonetic signs be inscribed in dictionaries regarding Oriental Medical terminologies.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제21권7호
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• pp.656-664
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 한국어 발음열 자동 생성기를 이용하여 한국어의 음운 규칙에 대한 통계적 분석을 수행하였다. 실험에 사용한 발음열 자동 생성기는 한국어 음운 변화 현상에 대해 형태음운론에 기반 한 언어학적 분석과 문교부 표준어 규정의 표준 발음법에서 유도된 필수 및 수의적 음소 변동 규칙과 변이음 규칙의 단계적 적용 모델을 사용해서 구현되었으며, 특히 연속음성 인식을 위한 학습용 발음열과 인식용 발음사전 생성의 최적화를 목표로 하였다. 본 논문에서는 대어휘 연속음성 인식기의 음향 모델을 구축하기 위해 만들어진 삼성 PBS(Phonetically Balanced Sentence) 음성 데이터 베이스의 60,000문장에 적용된 발음열 생성기의 음소 변동규칙들의 분포 및 그 통계를 사용해서 한국어 음운 변화 양상을 분석하였다. 적용된 빈도수를 기준으로 분석한 결과, 필수음소 변동규칙의 경우는 연음법칙, 경음화, 격음화, 장애음의 비음화순으로, 수의적 음소 변동규칙의 경우는 초성 ㅎ 탈락, 중복 자음화, 동일 조음위치 자음탈락 순으로 음운 변화가 발생하였다. 이러한 적용 규칙들의 통계적 자료를 기반으로 한국어 음운 변화 양상을 파악할 수 있었으며, 나아가 본 논문의 연구 결과는 음성 인식 시스템을 개발하는데 유용하게 사용할 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.199-210
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• 2002

본 논문은 한국어 음성인식에서 음향모델의 성능개선을 위한 기초적 연구로서 결정트리 상태 클러스터링에 의한 HM-Net (Hidden Markov Network)의 구조결정 알고리즘을 이용한 음성인식에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 한국어는 다른 언어와 비교하여 많은 문법과 변이음이 존재하는데, 국어 음성학에서 정의한 다양한 변이음을 조사하고, 음소결정트리를 위한 음소 질의어 집합을 작성하였다. 본 논문의 HM-Net 구조결정 알고리즘의 아이디어는 SSS (Successive State Splitting) 알고리즘의 구조를 가지면서 미리 작성해 둔 문맥의존 음향모델의 상태를 다시 분할하는 방법이다. 즉, 모델의 각 상태위치마다 음소 질의어 집합에 의해 음소결정트리를 생성하고, PDT-SSS (Phonetic Decision Tree-based SSS) 알고리즘에 의해 문맥의존 음향모델의 상태열을 다시 학습하는 방법이다. 결정트리 상태 클러스터링에 의한 HM-Net 구조결정 알고리즘의 유효성을 확인하기 위해, 국어공학센터 (KLE)의 452단어와 항공편 예약에 관련된 YNU200 문장을 대상으로 음성인식 실험을 수행하였다. 인식실험 결과, 음소, 단어, 연속음성인식 실험에서 상태분할을 수행한 후 상태수의 변화에 따라 인식률이 점진적으로 향상됨을 확인하였다. 상태수 2,000일 때 음소, 단어 인식률이 평균 71.5%, 99.2%를 각각 얻었으며, 연속음성인식률은 상태수 800일 때 평균 91.6%를 얻었다. 또한 HM-Net 구조결정 알고리즘의 파라미터 공유관계를 비교하기 위해 상태공유를 수행하는 HTK를 이용한 단어인식 실험을 수행하였다. 실험결과, HTK를 이용한 문맥의존 음향모델에 비해 평균 4.0%의 인식률 향상을 보여, 본 논문에서 적용한 결정트리 상태 클러스터링에 의한 HM-Net 구조결정 알고리즘의 유효성을 확인하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.89-99
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• 2013

The problem of the sentence-based pronunciation evaluation task is defined in the context of subjective criteria. Three subjective criteria (that is, the minimum subjective word score, the mean subjective word score, and first impression) are proposed and modeled with the combination of word-based assessment. Then, the subjective criteria are approximated with objective sentence pronunciation scores obtained with the combination of word-based metrics. No a priori studies of common mistakes are required, and class-based language models are used to incorporate incorrect and correct pronunciations. Incorrect pronunciations are automatically incorporated by making use of a competitive lexicon and the phonetic rules of students' mother and target languages. This procedure is applicable to any second language learning context, and subjective-objective sentence score correlations greater than or equal to 0.5 can be achieved when the proposed sentence-based pronunciation criteria are approximated with combinations of word-based scores. Finally, the subjective-objective sentence score correlations reported here are very comparable with those published elsewhere resulting from methods that require a priori studies of pronunciation errors.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제68권
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• pp.33-47
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a hybrid acoustic and pronunciation model adaptation method based on context dependency for Korean-English speech recognition. The proposed method is performed as follows. First, in order to derive pronunciation variant rules, an n-best phoneme sequence is obtained by phone recognition. Second, we decompose each rule into a context independent (CI) or a context dependent (CD) one. To this end, it is assumed that a different phoneme structure between Korean and English makes CI pronunciation variabilities while coarticulation effects are related to CD pronunciation variabilities. Finally, we perform an acoustic model adaptation and a pronunciation model adaptation for CI and CD pronunciation variabilities, respectively. It is shown from the Korean-English speech recognition experiments that the average word error rate (WER) is decreased by 36.0% when compared to the baseline that does not include any adaptation. In addition, the proposed method has a lower average WER than either the acoustic model adaptation or the pronunciation model adaptation.

• 아동학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.145-155
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• 2005

This study was carried out to reveal Hangul acquisition processes in Korean-Chinese children who grow in a horizontal bilingual environment. In this experiment Grapheme substitution/deletion tasks and sensible/non-sensible Kulja reading tasks were administered to 3-, 4-, 5- and 6-year-old Korean-Chinese children growing up in a bilingual environment. Results were that Korean-Chinese children showed similar patterns of Hangul acquisition processes to Korean children but acquired grapheme-phoneme(G-P) correspondence earlier than Korean children. Hangul acquisition rates were 41.7%, 45.7%, 53% and 92.7% at age 3, 4, 5 and 6, respectively. Both Korean-Chinese and Korean children showed higher sensitivity for the final consonant than for the initial and middle consonants. Correlation between phoneme perception and reading was only significant among 6-year-olds in non-sensible Kulja reading tasks. Training in transforming ideographic Chinese to a phonetic system could effect early acquisition of G-P correspondence in Korean-Chinese children.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제27_28호
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• pp.27-56
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• 1994

Processes involving the change of vowel height are natural enough to be found in many languages. It is essential to have a better feature specification for vowel height to grasp these processes properly, Standard Phonology adopts the binary feature system, and vowel height is represented by the two features, i.e., [\pm high] and [\pm low]. This has its own merits. But it is defective because it is misleading when we count the number of features used in a rule to compare the naturalness of rules. This feature system also cannot represent more than three degrees of height, We wi31 discard the binary features for vowel height. We consider to adopt the multivalued feature [n high] for the property of height. However, this feature cannot avoid the arbitrariness resulting from the number values denoting vowel height. It is not easy to expect whether the number in question is the largest or not It also is impossible to decide whether a larger number denotes a higher vowel or a lower vowel. Furthermore this feature specification requires an ad hoc condition such as n > 3 or n \geq 2, whenever we want to refer to a natural class including more than one degree of height The altelnative might be Particle Phonology, or Dependency Phonology. These might be apt for multivalued vowel height systems, as their supporters argue. However, the feature specification of Particle Phonology will be discarded because it does not observe strictly the assumption that the number of the particle a is decisive in representing the height. One a in a representation can denote variant degrees of height such as [e], [I], [a], [a ] and [e ]. This also means that we cannot represent natural classes in terms of the number of the particle a, Dependency Phonology also has problems in specifying a degree of vowel height by the dependency relations between the elements. There is no unique element to represent vowel height since every property has to be defined in terms of the dependency relations between two or more elements, As a result it is difficult to formulate a rule for vowel height change, especially when the phenomenon involves a chain of vowel shifts. Therefore, we suggest a new feature specification for vowel height (see Chapter 3). This specification resorts to a single feature H and a few >'s which refer exclusively to the degree of the tongue height when a vowel is pronounced. It can cope with more than three degrees of height because it is fundamentally a multivalued scalar feature. This feature also obviates the ad hoc condition for a natural class while the [n high] type of multivalued feature suffers from it. Also this feature specification conforms to our expection that the notation should become simpler as the generality of the class increases, in that the fewer angled brackets are used, the more vowels are included, Incidentally, it has also to be noted that, by adopting a single feature for vowel height, it is possible to formulate a simpler version of rules involving the changes of vowel height especially when they involve vowel shifts found in many languages.