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Perceptual development in the categorization of pitch accent contrasts in children and adults

  • Kim, Jung-Sun
    • 말소리와 음성과학
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    • 제3권3호
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    • pp.11-18
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    • 2011
  • This paper examines the categorical labeling of lexical pitch accent contrasts in North Kyungsang and South Cholla Korean listeners. It focuses specifically on investigating whether the pitch accent perception of adults and children has a dialect-specific effect. To evaluate the development of perceptual identification, slopes, intercepts, and positions at categorical boundaries were computed using a logistic regression function. The results showed that differences in slopes and intercepts were significant between North Kyungsang child and adult listeners, but the same was not the case for the positions at boundaries. As far as South Cholla child and adult listeners were concerned, there was a significant difference in slopes, but not intercepts and positions at boundaries. In the present study, the comparison of intercepts and slopes at the boundaries indicated developmental differences between North Kyungsang adult and child listeners. This improvement in categorical proportion seems to be a result of developmental changes in categorical perception. For South Cholla adult and child listeners, however, perception of the non-native contrast becomes less categorical.

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영어 명사구와 복합명사의 억양 실현 양상과 지각 (Intonational Realization and Perception of English Noun Phrases and Compound Nouns)

  • 강선미;김미혜;전윤실;김기호
    • 음성과학
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    • 제12권4호
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    • pp.153-166
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    • 2005
  • This paper attempts to examine the accent implementation and perception of noun phrases and compound nouns in English sentences, arguing that primary stress of noun phrase and compound noun is realized in relative prominence in intonation. The production test examines how the stress patterns of the noun phrases and compound nouns are realized in intonation of the English native speakers' utterances. The perception test investigates English and Korean listeners' comprehension of the intonation of the noun phrases and compound nouns. And the results of this experimental study show that speakers and listeners produce and perceive the primary stress as a relatively prominent accent even if in contrast of English listeners, Korean learners have difficulty in using the cue of pitch accent location and figuring out compound nouns and noun phrases.

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Variations in the perception of lexical pitch accents and the correlations with individuals' autistic traits

  • Lee, Hyunjung
    • 말소리와 음성과학
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    • 제9권2호
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    • pp.53-59
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    • 2017
  • The present study examined if individual listeners' perceptual variations were associated with their cognitive characteristics indexed by the Autistic Spectrum Quotient (AQ). This study first investigated the perception of the lexical pitch accent contrast in the Kyungsang Korean currently undergoing a sound change, and then tested if listeners' perceptual variations were correlated with their AQ scores. Eighteen Kyungsang listeners in their 20s participated in the perception experiment where they identified two contrastive accent words for auditory stimuli systematically varying F0 scaling and timing properties; the participants then completed the AQ questionnaire. In the results, the acoustic parameters reporting reduced phonetic differences across accent contrasts for younger Kyungsang generation played a reliable role in perceiving the HH word from HL, suggesting the discrepancy between the perception and the production in the context of sound change. This study also observed that individuals' perceptual variations were negatively correlated with their AQ sub scores. The present findings suggested that the sound change might appear differently between production and perception with a different time course, and deviant percepts could be explained by individuals' cognitive measure.

The continuous or categorical effects for HH vs. HL and HH vs. LH in lexical pitch accent contrasts of Korean

  • Kim, Jungsun
    • 말소리와 음성과학
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    • 제6권4호
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    • pp.53-65
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    • 2014
  • The current research examines whether pitch contour shapes in North Kyungsang pitch accent contrasts provide a phonetic dimension for phonological discreteness in a mimicry task. Two pitch accent continua resynthesized were created for HH vs. HL and HH vs. LH. To confirm a phonetic dimension for accounting for pitch accent categories in North Kyungsang Korean, the mimicries of speakers of two dialects (i.e., North Kyungsang & South Cholla) were compared. One of the findings showed that, for North Kyungsang speakers, the range of mean f0 peak times was a phonetic dimension undergoing a continuous shift within a stimulus continuum for both HH vs. HL and HH vs. LH. On the other hand, for South Cholla speakers, there were no apparent shifts around categorical boundaries for either HH vs. HL or HH vs. LH. Regarding individual mimicries on f0 peak timing, there are many variations. For HH vs. LH, three North Kyungsang speakers showed a discrete pattern reflecting a shift in phonological categories, but for HH vs. HL, there was no such distinction showing a categorical shift, though there were statistically significant differences for two speakers. Interestingly, one of the North Kyungsang speakers showed a continuous phonetic dimension for both HH vs. HL and HH vs. LH. Lastly, the f0 valley timing did not exhibit a discrete or gradient phonetic dimension for speakers of either dialect. On the basis of these results, what is interesting is that the tonal target such as high tone in North Kyungsang pitch accent categories within the autosegmental-metrical (AM) theory may be realized within individual cognitive systems for representing the interaction of perception and production.

성대결절 환자에서 액센트 치료법의 효과 (The Effect of Accent Method in Treating Vocal Nodule Patients)

  • 권순복;김용주;조철우;전계록;이병주;왕수건
    • 음성과학
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    • 제8권4호
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    • pp.87-98
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    • 2001
  • Vocal nodule is one of the representative chronic diseases of vocal folds, and it can be cured by surgical removal or voice therapy. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of the accent method, one of the popular effective voice therapy, in the patients with vocal nodule. Authors executed the accent method in 17 patients with vocal nodule who visited the Voice & Speech Therapy Clinic, Pusan National University Hospital analysed the voice before and after treatment using the local findings, acoustic analysis and aerodynamic analysis MPT. The voice was analysed with MDVP of CSL and MPT was checked using stop watch. The parameters included Fo, Jitter, Shimmer and noise to harmonic ratio(NHR) as acoustic analysis. The results were obtained as follows. In the evaluation by the local findings, it was improved to 77% in the patients of vocal nodule. Jitter and Shimmer were shown to be improved significantly. In particular, it was shown to be improved significantly in patients with vocal nodule. As the result of this study, the improvement of aerodynamic aspect was more statistically significant than that of acoustic parameters. When I generalized the above mentioned results, we suggest that it is a useful voice therapy which can be helpful to the improvement of voice, applying the accent method to the vocal nodule patients, and there are currently many methods to be used in the voice therapy, but it is thought which the accent method is the good treatment as the alternatives of keeping the continuous medical treatment.

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계몽주의 시대 프랑스 문법서에서 기술한 운율 현상과 국제음성기호의 출발에 대한 고찰 (Notes on Descriptions of the Prosodic System in French Grammars in the Age of Enlightenment & the Departure of the International Phonetic Alphabet)

  • 박문규
    • 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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    • 제21권4호
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    • pp.658-667
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    • 2021
  • 본 연구는 계몽주의 시대에 프랑스 문법서에서 기술한 다양한 운율을 현대 음성학적 관점에서 분석하고 국제음성기호의 효시가 된 도상표기법을 소개하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 세 권의 문법서와 한 권의 표기법 서적을 비교·분석하여 운율 구조를 음성학적으로 재구성하는 연구방법을 도입하였다. 당시에는 규칙성이 있는 운율악센트와 의미적·화용적 맥락에서 발생하는 웅변악센트로 악센트를 분류하여 분석을 시도한 점이 대표적이다. 운율악센트는 억양과 관계가 있으며, 웅변악센트는 억양과 세기가 중요한 운율 자질이다. 여러 문법학자에 의하여 공통적으로 관찰된 현상은 단어의 말음절 장음화이다. 현대프랑스어 악센트의 중요한 특징인 말음절 장음화는 18세기에 자리 잡은 것으로 추정할 수 있다. 다만 억양을 악센트와 동일시하는 관습 때문에 말음절 장음화를 악센트로 보지 않고 단순히 음량의 패턴으로 간주한 것으로 보인다. 또한, 억양을 통한 악센트에 관한 기술이 이전 세기의 일반이성문법학자보다 덜 정교함을 보여주었다. 운율악센트의 위치를 정확히 명시하지 않은 점, 웅변악센트에 음의 고저와 세기가 어떻게 결합되는지에 대한 설명이 부재한 점이 대표적이다. 18세기의 문법가들이 운율에 관하여 기술한 내용을 분석하면 당시의 운율 현상은 전반적으로 오늘날의 프랑스어 운율 현상과 유사하다. 현대 음성학적 관점에서 보면 말음절 장음화가 프랑스어 악센트의 중요한 특성으로 자리 잡은 시기가 바로 18세기인 것이다.

L2 억양에 나타나는 L1억양의 긍정적 전이와 부정적 전이 양상 - 일본인 한국어 학습자들을 중심으로 - (Positive and negative transfer of first language in producing second language - Focusing on Japanese learners of Korean -)

  • 윤영숙
    • 말소리와 음성과학
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    • 제8권4호
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    • pp.71-78
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of Japanese(L1) on the production of Korean accentual phrases(L2). Korean and Japanese have a similar prosodic structure. But different from Korean, Japanese is a pitch accent language. So each word has its own pitch accent. And pitch accents are maintained in the sentence intonation. This difference will have a negative influence on the production of Korean sentence intonation. For this study 4 Korean natives speakers and 10 advanced Japanese learners of Korean participated in the production test. The material analysed constituted 11 Korean sentences, six of which contain formally identical Sino-Korean and Sino-Japanese words. The results show that the initial pitch pattern of Korean accentual phrases was affected by Japanese pitch accent types and this interference was greater for formally identical Sino-Korean and Sino-Japanese words. But besides initial tones of accentual phrase, some positive interference was observed in the internal tonal pattern of accentual phrase. In the phonetic realization, the internal pitch range and initial pitch rising of accentual phrases was greater for Japanese learners of Korean than native speakers of Korean.

Phrase positional effects on F0 peak timing in Tokyo Japanese

  • 조혜선
    • 말소리와 음성과학
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    • 제3권3호
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    • pp.69-75
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    • 2011
  • This paper investigates phrase positional effects on the timing of F0 (pitch) peaks in Tokyo Japanese disyllabic words with varying accent type (HL or LH) and phrase position (final or non final). The F0 peak timing was normalized by the total word duration ('normalized H timing'). The normalized H timing was significantly affected by accent type and phrase position. The H timing was later in the LH accent type than in the HL accent type, and in non final positions than in final positions. In addition, to examine the validity of the quantitative results, different models of phrase position effects were compared by measuring H timing in two approaches: normalization versus relative distance measures. For the normalization measures, the H timing was measured as the time of the F0 peak divided by the total word duration or by the duration of the tone bearing syllable. For the relative distance measures, the H timing was measured as the distance in milliseconds from the end of the word or from the end of the associated syllable. The best model was the normalization by the total word duration, rather than by the duration of the tone bearing syllable. This means that phrase positional effects on the timing of F0 peaks in Japanese disyllabic words are best modeled in terms of proportion of the total word duration.

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광복로 로드숍 파사드디자인의 색채분석을 통한 지역색 연구 (A Study on Area Color of Gwangbok-ro Based on the Analysis of the Colors of the Facade Designs of Stores Along the Road)

  • 여미;이창노
    • 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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    • 제22권1호
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    • pp.247-255
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    • 2013
  • In this study, the colors and characteristics of Gwangbok-ro of Busan were analyzed in the standpoint of local images based on the examination of the facade designs of stores along the road of Gwangbok-ro, Busan a main street with massive population flow. To that end, the facades of stores, correlation with the city, color and locality were examined, and after the status of facade designs in Gwangbok-ro were identified through case survey by it, color images were analyzed. For color analysis, Munsell color system was used as basic tool. As a result of examining the colors in Gwangbok-ro area, the following status could be analyzed on 3 attributes of hue, brightness and chroma: First, analysis results of hue indicated that dominant color that covers 70% or more of the area represented mid brightness and low chroma in GY(36.1%) series, subsidiary color which covers 25% or more of the area mid brightness and low chroma in YR(26.5%) series, and accent color that covers less than 5% of the area high brightness and low chroma of GY(40%) series. Second, in brightness analysis, dominant color mostly represented mid brightness, subsidiary color mid brightness and accent color high brightness respectively. In particular accent color showed more intensive crowding phenomenon in high brightness. Third, as for chroma, dominant color, subsidiary color and accent color all are gathered in low chroma, however in small number of accent colors, peculiar high chroma appeared notable. In conclusion, the colors of Gwangbok-ro area analyzed based on the facade design of the stores along the road in this study were superficial colors that reflect the life of people in the area, artificial colors by improvement of the local environment. This study is meaningful in that the image of Gwangbok-ro was found through building colors in one part of the city Busan. It is judged that the study results would become useful as reference document in planning out environment colors later on.

일본어의 초점 실현과 인토네이션의 구조 (Realizations of Discourse Focus and Structure of Intonation in Japanese)

  • 최영숙
    • 음성과학
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    • 제9권4호
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    • pp.187-200
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of the present study is to see in terms of $F_{0}$ variation in Japanese how discourse focus and the lexical word accent interact with each other in realizing overall intonation patterns. Discourse focus causes prosodic restructuring of phrase structures and, as a result, largely affects pitch contours, whereas the lexical word accent is said to delimit the $F_{0}$ into a certain range. Measurement of $F_{0}$ was made of utterances of Japanese sentences to observe behavior of pitch contours with varied focus assignment and lexical accent specifications. The utterances were obtained in question-answer discourse contexts so that in a sentence, either one NP was always focused or no focus was assigned. I set four points for $F_{0}$ measurement; $F_{1s},F_{1m}, F_{2s}$, and $F_{2m}$, two for each noun phrase corresponding to $F_{0}$ at the beginning of the first syllable and that of the vocalic portion of the second syllable in the two NP's. The results of present study were as follows: (1) for all combination of lexical accent types, the $F_{0}$ rise both in NP1 and NP2 are higher when focused than when not focused. (2) NP2 starts a new accentual phrase when focused, showing even higher $F_{0}$ than NP1, the latter of which implies that in forming a new accentual phrase by focusing, catathesis does not seem to take effect on NP2 preceded by accented NP1. (3) unfocused NP2 preceded by unaccented NP1 has higher $F_{0}$ than those preceded by accented NP1.

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