• 음성과학
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.165-173
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• 2002

Strong compression effects in a stressed vowel due to the addition of syllables have been adopted as evidence for stress-timing. In relation to this, Yun (2002) investigated the compression effects of number of syllables on Korean vowel. The results generally revealed that Korean had neither significant nor consistent anticipatory or backwards compression effects, especially when it came to the sentence level. This led us to claim that Korean would not be a stress-timed language. But the language investigated in the study was only Korean, and further cross-linguistic research was needed to confirm the claim. In this study, Yun's (2002) sentence level data are compared with Fowler's (1981) English data. The comparison reveals that Korean seems to be similar to English in the backwards compression effect, whereas the two languages are markedly different in the anticipatory compression effect. Thus, if English is a stress-timed language and the strong anticipatory compression effect is evidence in favour of stress-timing as is claimed, the present cross-linguistic study confirms Yun's (2002) suggestion-Korean is unlikely to be stress-timed. On the other hand, compression effects are revisited: the differences in vowel compression between English and Korean are discussed from the syntactic and phonological points of view.

• 음성과학
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.173-184
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• 2002

The question of Korean rhythmic type is still a controversial issue (syllable-timed; stress-timed; word-timed). As a step toward solving the question, an experiment was carried out to examine compression effects in Korean. There has been a general belief that the increase of the number of following or preceding syllables causes compression of a vowel (or syllable) in many languages, and a marked anticipatory compression effect can be especially indicative of stress timing. The purpose of this research, therefore, was to obtain some evidence to determine whether or not Korean is stress-timed. The durations of the target vowel/a/ of the monosyllabic word /pap/ were measured at both word and sentence level. In general, marked anticipatory and backward compression effects on the target vowel were observed across one-, two- and three-syllable words in citation form, whereas the effects were neither marked nor consistent at sentence level. These results led us to claim that Korean is not stress-timed.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.726-736
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• 1997

The textual image compression by pattern matching is a coding scheme that exploits the correlations between patterns. When we compress the Hangul (Korean character) text by patern matching, the collerations between patterns may decrease due to randoem contacts between phonemes. Therefore in this paper we separate connected phonemes to exploit effectively the corrlation between patterns by inducting the amtch. In the process of sequation, we decide whether the patterns have vowel component or not, and then vowels connected with consonant ae separated. When we compare the proposed algorithm with the existing algorith, the compression ratio is increased by 1.3%-3.0% than PMS[5] in lossy mode, by 3.4%-9.1% in lossless mode than that of SPM[7] which is submitted to standard committe for second generation binary compression algorithm.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.580-587
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• 2006

최근에 PDA, IMT-2000, e-Book 등이 보편화되면서 이러한 기기들을 사용하는 사용자의 수가 크게 증가하고 있다. 그러나 아직도 사용 가능한 메모리의 크기는 데스크톱 컴퓨터에 비해 상당히 적은 편이다. 이런 제품들에서, 트루타입 폰트는 품질 좋은 글꼴을 요구하는 사용자들이 증가함에 따라 수요가 증가하고 있으며, Windows CE를 탐재한 제품들에서는 기본적으로 사용되고 있다. 하지만 트루타입 폰트의 크기는 PDA와 e-Book과 같은 적은 메모리를 가진 제품들의 상당히 많은 공간을 차지하게 된다. 그러므로 트루타입 폰트외 크기를 줄이려는 노력이 요구된다. 본 논문은 트루타입 폰트에 내장된 비트맵 데이타(EBDT) 중에 한글 부분만을 줄이기 위해 2 단계의 압축과정을 거친다. 1 단계에서는 비트맵을 초성, 중성, 종성의 형태로 분리하여 합성 비트맵으로 구성하고, 2 단계에서는 분리된 각각의 비트맵들의 중복을 조사하여 제거하게 된다. 본 논문은 한글 완성형과 조합형 트루타입에 내장된 비트맵을 압축하였으며, 완성형 폰트의 경우 35%, 조합형 폰트의 경우 7%의 압축률을 보인다. 또한 완성형 트루타입의 경우 전체 트루타입 폰트의 9.26%의 압축률을 보인다.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.65-68
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• 1997

The mutational falsetto is failure to change from the higher pitched voice of preadolescence to the lower pitched voice of adolescence and adulthood. The one of characteristic findings is contraction of suprahyoid muscles. The large majority of young men with inappropriately high voice have excellent voice therapy prognosis. We have experienced one case of mutational falsetto treated with botulinum toxin injection on suprahyoid muscles. His suprahyoid muscles are contracted markedly simultaneously with each phonation. fundamental frequency$(F_0)$ of his vowel phonation was 332Hz. Extensive voice therapy including manual compression of thyroid notch was ineffective. Forty units of Botox$^{\circledR}$ was injected under the EMG-guidance(20U bilaterally). At seven days post-injection, his voice changed lower than before and at 40 days after procedure, his $F_0$ was 126Hz.

• 음성과학
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.87-98
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• 2000

Timing in speech is determined by many factors. In this paper, we introduce and discuss some factors that have generally been regarded as important in speech timing. They include stress, syllable structure, consonant insertion or deletion, tempo, lengthening at clause, phrase and word boundaries, preconsonantal vowel shortening, and compensation between segments or within phonological units (e.g., word, foot), compression due to the increase of syllables in word or foot level, etc. and each of them may playa crucial role in the structuring of speech timing in a language. But some of these timing factors must interact with each other rather than be independent and the effects of each factor on speech timing will vary from language to language. On the other hand, there could well be many other factors unknown so far. Finding out and investigating new timing factors and reinterpreting the already-known timing factors should enhance our understanding of timing structures in a given language or languages.