• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.99-109
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• 2024

Coarticulation is affected by the continuous movement of the articulator within a limited time and space through the neighboring segments and various overlaps. This study investigated the differences in coarticulation characteristics of children with reading disabilities and nondisabled children in CVC and VCV syllables consisted of stops, affricates, and vowels (a, i, u). The subjects were 13 children with reading disabilities and nondisabled children in the 2nd to 6th grades in elementary school. Two second formants were measured. One was measured at the point where the vowel began, and the other was measured at the mid point of the vowel stable section. Regression analysis was performed with F2 onset and F2 of the following vowel to obtain the locus equation (LE). 3-way ANOVA was conducted to the slope of the LE according to the groups (reading disabilities vs. nondisabled), places of articulation, and phonation types. In CVC syllable, dyslexic children showed a flatter slope than nondisabled children. With respect to the places of articulation, velar or bilabial sounds showed steeper LE slope than alveolar or palatal sounds. There were no main effects regarding group and phonation types variable for VCV syllable, and the significant differences in the places of articulation were also differed from the results for the CVC syllables. This study confirmed that dyslexic children showed a different pattern of coarticulation slope depending on the syllable structure. We also found that the higher pause rate of the dyslexic children had a stronger effect on the coarticulation in VCV structures.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1994.06c
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• pp.395-398
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• 1994

In this paper the word recognition using sub-model based Hidden Markov Model was studied. Phoneme models were composed of 61 phonemes in therms of Korean language pronunciation characteristic. Using this, word model was maded by serial concatenation. But, in case of this phoneme concatenation, the second and the third phoneme of syllable are overlapped in distribution at the same time. So considering this, the method that combines the second and the third phoneme to one model was proposed. And to prevent the increase in number of model, similar phonemes were combined to one, and finially, 57 models were created. In experiment proper model structure of sub-model was searched for, and recognition results were compared. So similar recognition results were maded, and overall recognition rates were increased in case of using parameter tying method.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.228-232
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• 1995

음절과 글자의 내부구조에 대한 언어학적 심리학적 논의들을 개관하였다. 영어의 음절구조에 대한 연구들은 초두자음/각운 구조를 지지하고 있다. 한편 한국어의 음절과 글자의 내부구조에 대한 최근의 연구는 영어에서 얻어진 결과들과 다른 결과를 얻고 있다. 자모대체 과제를 사용한 이 연구에 의하면, 글자유형에 관계없이 종성자모의 대체시간이 초성자모의 대체시간보다 짧았다. 이러한 결과는 음절에 대응하는 글자의 내부구조로서 초중성자모/종성자모 구조를 지지하고 있다. 선행연구 결과들을 바탕으로 음운단위와 표기단위의 상동성, 그리고 언어특유적 음절구조의 가능성에 대해서 논의하였다.

• Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.19-38
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• 2001

The question of how / ... VCV .../ sequences should be syllabified is a much discussed, yet unresolved, issue in English phonology. While most researchers recognize an over-all universal tendency towards open syllables, there seem to be at least two different views as regards the analysis of / ... VCV .../ when the second vowel is unstressed: ambisyllabicity (e.g., Kahn 1976) and resyllabification (e.g., Borowsky 1986). Basically, we adopt the latter view and will present further evidence in its favor. This does not exclude low-level “phonetic” ambisyllabification, however. Following Nespor and Vogel (1986), we also assume that the domain of syllabification or resyllabification is the phonological word. With the new conception of the syllable structure of English, we attempt a reanalysis of Aitkin's Law as well as fe-tensing in New York City and Philadelphia.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference
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• 2002.02a
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• pp.135-146
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• 2002

The so-called overapplication of Coda Neutralization in Korean, the occurrence of a neutralized consonant in a non-neutralizing environment, is often considered as evidence for serial derivation. In this paper I propose that the neutralization effect at surface is not a result of a phonological process at an intermediate level in serial derivation, but due to a constraint requiring the integrity of the morphological constituent: EDGE-INTEGRITY. It is argued that this is not reducible to an alignment constraint, but a genuine faithfulness constraint on the edge of a morphological constituent. The putative opacity related with the coda neutralization is shown to be an epiphenomenon arising from the ambisyllabic representation of a consonant at a morphological juncture, satisfying both EDGE-INTEGRITY arid Syllabic Conditions. Consonant Copy in the Jeju dialect provides further evidence for EDGE-INTEGRITY, the Only difference being that the conflict between Syllabic Conditions and EDGE-INTEGRITY is resolved by insertion of a copied consonant.

• MALSORI
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• no.57
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• pp.43-58
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• 2006

This study aims to investigate whether Chinese learning Korean and Korean native speakers show any difference in length and formant structures of the Korean liquid 'ㄹ' in the environments of v_v and v_# through the acoustic analysis of 10 Chinese learners' and 10 Koreans' utterances. The acoustic analysis of L2KSC DB shows that the length and formant structures of 'ㄹ' produced by Chinese learners are significantly different from the ones by Koreans. I explain these differences by contrasting the liquids and syllable structure constraints of the two languages, Chinese and Korean. In addition, I relate the F1 and F2's values to the tongue's movement when making a constriction, and conclude that Chinese learners pronounce the 'ㄹ' in the v_# environment with the tongue lower and backer than Koreans do.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.27 no.10
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• pp.138-145
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• 1990

This paper present a rule-based speech synthesis method for improving the naturalness of synthetic speech and using the small data base based on demisyllable units. A 12-pole Linear Prediction Coding method is used to analyses demisyllable speech signals. A syllable and vowel concatenation rule is developed to improve the naturalness and intelligibility of the synthetic speech. in addiion, phonological structure transform rule using neural net and prosody rules are applied to the synthetic speech.

• MALSORI
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• no.53
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• pp.37-60
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• 2005

A Study of N-Insertion Preferences in KoreanKyung-A Kook, Ju-Won Kim, Ho-Young LeeSince n-insertion is not an obligatory process in Korean, it is necessary to investigate what factors influence n-insertion preferences and whether n-insertion preferences have been changed over time. To find answers to these questions, an n-insertion preference test using a questionnaire was conducted. 183 words were selected for this test and 167 subjects participated in the test. The results of this test show that the n-insertion preferences were influenced by the speakers' age, the number and structure of the syllable, word class, phonetic environments, and familiarity. It is suggested that the results of this test should be incorporated into the Principles of Standard Pronunciation and in the Grand Dictionary of Standard Korean.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.151-159
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• 2006

The ratio of a segmentation algorithm of compound nouns causes an effect a lot in nouns which are not in the dictionary. The structure of Korean compound nouns are mostly derived from the Chinese characters and it includes some preference ratio. So it will be able to use segmentation rule of compound nouns. This paper suggests a segmentation algorithm using some preference ratio of Korean compound nouns which are not in the dictionary. The experiment resulted in getting 88.49% of correct segmentation and showed effective result from the comparative experimentation with other algorithm.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.175-185
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• 2002

The purpose of this study was to investigate the acoustic durations of Korean vowels followed by either voiced or voiceless consonants. Six healthy adult speakers (2 females and 4 males) recorded nonsense syllables in which voiced (/b, d, g/) or voiceless (/p', t', k', $p^{h},t^{h},k^{h}$) consonants follow three different vowels (/i, a, u/) embedded in a carrier phrase. Results showed that vowels preceding voiced consonants (e.g., haba) were significantly longer in duration than those preceding voiceless consonants (e.g., hiP' a or $hip^{h}a$). Also vowels were longer in duration when occurring before velar-stops than before bilabial-stop and dental-stops. Finally, the duration of the low vowel (/a/) was substantially longer than that of the high vowels (/i, u/). These findings may be applicable to speech synthesis or therapy.