• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2005년도 추계 학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.91-95
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• 2005

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of postvocalic voicing(Contrasting voiceless fricative and affricate with voiced fricative and affricate) on vowel duration. In particular we focused on the durational differences between vowels followed by voiceless and voiced consonants across three groups of speakers: English speakers, English bilinguals and Korean learners of English. the result of experimental I showed that durations of vowels preceding voiced fricative and affricates as well as voiced stops are significantly longer than those preceding voiceless counterparts. Experiment Ⅱ indicated that as the subjects exposed themselves longer to English speaking society, their pronunciation was increasingly similar to those of English native speakers.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1998년도 학술발표대회 논문집 제17권 1호
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• pp.371-374
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• 1998

본 연구의 목적은 한국어 마찰음과 파찰음을 변별적으로 지각하게 해 주는 결정적 단서를 찾아보려는 것이다. 마찰음의 마찰 소음 구간 길이를 감소시키고, 파찰음의 마찰 소음 구간 길이를 증가시키는 두 가지 실험을 통해 소음 구간의 길이 변화가 지각에 미치는 영향을 살펴 보았다. 실험 결과, 소음 구간 길이의 변화가 주된 지각적 단서임을 확인하였다.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제27권
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• pp.497-523
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• 2012

Characteristics of the Listening and Pronunciation of Korean Obstruents of Chinese Learners -Based on the Phonetic Experiments Using Kalvin and Praat- This study aims at investigating the characteristics of confrontation in three ways, lax/ fortis/ aspirated consonants, in Korean obstruents through experimental phonetic analysis for the Chinese Korean language learners. On one hand, as a result of comparing Korean and Chinese obstruent systems, there is no big difference regarding the articulatory location. On the other hand, in regards to the articulatory method there is a difference. In a Korean obstruent system, the confrontation presented in three ways by the strength of aspiration. On the contrary, the Chinese obstruent system showed confrontation in two ways by the existence of aspiration. To examine the difficulty of the learners caused by the above-mentioned reason objectively, this paper studied the relationship between input and output of sound through the experimental phonetic analysis such as Kalvin and Praat. To research the input of sound, the listening ability of the learners was examined by 'Choosing Consonant' among the Menu of Kalvin. As a result of that experiment, many errors were shown. They recognized the fortis as lax in the area of affricates and plosives. In the area of fricatives, they recognized affricatives as fricatives. To investigate the output of sound, the section of aspiration and the section of friction of a plosive, an affricate and a fricative in Praat, were expressed numerically. The learners' VOT of lax and affricate represented that lax was pronounced close to the fortis, and the VOT of fricatives was not shown the section of aspiration and friction clearly, and also the result showed that they pronounced a fricative like affricative-aspirated one. The result shows that the learners' pronunciation is related to the listening ability. The consequence is caused by the characteristics of the difference between Korean obstruents and Chinese ones. If the training pronunciation is conducted based on above result, it would be a better methodology in teaching Korean.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.125-131
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• 2015

The current study explores whether speaker variability in the fronted articulations of Seoul Korean affricates can be explained by cognitive differences measured by individual autistic traits. The goal was to explore Yu's (2010; 2013) proposal that individual differences in cognitive style can be an important factor in speakers' use of sound variants. The spectral peak frequencies (SPF) of affricates relative to those of fricatives, reported in Kong et al. (2014), were used to acoustically represent the relative degree of anterior place of constriction. When these individual SPFs were related to the scores of Autistic-Spectrum Quotients (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001), a correlation was found for the male speakers, but not for the female speakers, such that speakers of more anterior affricate productions scored low in AQs. Discussion is made with respect to how these findings are in line with Yu's proposal.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2007년도 한국음성과학회 공동학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.187-192
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• 2007

The purpose of this paper is to show that the current notation of Japanese proper names in Korean has some problems. It cannot represent the different sounds between the voiced and voiceless. The purpose of this paper is also to give a more correct notation which is coherent and efficient. After introducing some general knowledge about the phonemes of Japanese language, I measured the Voice Onset Time of the stops[k, t] at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of a word, and compared the spectrogram of affricates with that of fricatives. In conclusion, Japanese voiceless [k, t ,$t{\int}$] should be written as [ㅋ,ㅌ,ㅊ] and voiced [g, d $d_3$] as [ㄱ,ㄷ,ㅈ] and the affricate[ts] as[ㅊ] in Korean.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2000년도 7월 학술대회지
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• pp.365-365
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• 2000

English segments adopted into Korean can be divided into three types: Some English segments /$m, {\;}n, {\;}{\eta}, {\;}p^h, {\;}t^h, {\;}k^h$/ are adopted into the original sound [$m, {\;}n, {\;}{\eta}, {\;}p^h, {\;}t^h, {\;}k^h$] in Korean. Other segments /b, d, g/ appear in the voiceless stop form [p, t, k]. Generative Phonology explains the presence of the above English segments in Korean but it cannot explain why the English segments /$f, {\;}v, {\;}{\Theta}, {\;}{\breve{z}}, {\;}{\breve{c}}, {\;}{\breve{j}}$/ disappear during the adopting process. I present a set of universal constraints from the Optimality Theory proposed by Prince and Smolensky(l993) and I show how English segments differently adopted into Korean can be explained by these universal constraints such as Faith(feature). N oAffricateStop, Faith(nasal), NoNasalStop, Faith(voice), NoVoicedStop and the interaction of these constraints. I conclude that this Optimality Theory provides insights that better capture the nature of the phonological phenomena of English segments in Korean.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2017

This study examined how early bilingual children produce sounds in their two languages articulated with the same manner of articulation but at different places of articulation. English affricates are palato-alveolar and Korean affricates are alveolar. This study analyzed the frequencies of center of gravity (COG), spectral peak (SP), and the second formant (F2) of word-initial affricates in English and Korean produced by twenty-four early Korean-English bilingual children (aged 4 to 7), and compared them with those of monolingual counterparts in the two languages. If early Korean-English bilingual children produce palato-alveolar affricates in English and alveolar affricates in Korean, they may produce Korean affricates with higher COGs, SPs, and F2s than English affricates. The early Korean-English bilingual children at the age of 4 produced English and Korean affricates with similar COGs, SPs, and F2s, and the COGs, SPs, and F2s of their Korean affricates were similar to those of the Korean monolingual counterparts. However, the early bilingual children at the age of 5 to 7 had lower COGs and SPs for English affricates with higher F2s compared to Korean affricates, and the COGs, SPs, and F2s of their English affricates were similar to those of the English monolingual counterparts.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2020

The perceptual assimilation of a nonnative phonological contrast can change with linguistic experience, resulting in naïve listeners and novice second language (L2) learners potentially assimilating the members of a nonnative contrast to different native (L1) categories. While it has been shown that this sort of change can affect the discrimination of the nonnative contrast, it has not been tested whether such a change could have consequences for the production of the contrast. In this study, L1 speakers of Mandarin Chinese who were (1) naïve to Korean, (2) novice L2 learners, or (3) advanced L2 learners participated in a Korean non-word repetition task using word-initial sibilants. The initial CVs of their repetitions were then played to L1 Korean listeners who categorized the initial consonant. The naïve talkers were more likely to repeat an initial /s^ha/ as an affricate, whereas the L2 learners repeated it as a fricative, in line with how these listeners have been shown to assimilate Korean sibilants to Mandarin categories. This result suggests that errors in the production of new words presented auditorily to nonnative listeners may be driven by how they perceptually assimilate the nonnative sounds, emphasizing the need to better understand what drives changes in perceptual assimilation that accompany increased linguistic experience.

• 정보과학회 컴퓨팅의 실제 논문지
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• 제20권11호
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• pp.579-585
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• 2014

음소는 음성을 구성하는 최소 단위로서 음성을 인식하는데 있어 매우 중요한 역할을 한다. 본 논문은 음소 기반 한국어 음성 인식의 일부로서, 한국어 음소 중 'ㅅ', 'ㅈ', 'ㅊ'에 대한 새로운 인식 방안을 제안한다. 제안하는 방식은 입력 음성 신호를 구성하는 각각의 블록에 대해 계산되는 변동성 지표와 전환점 지표에 기반한다. 변동성 지표는 블록 내의 인접한 샘플 값들의 차이의 총합이며, 전환점 지표는 블록 내에서 샘플 값의 증가와 감소의 방향이 전환되는 극점의 총수이다. 두 지표를 결합하여 음소 인식을 수행하는 인식 알고리즘은 두 지표와 관련하여 최적화된 임계치들을 활용하여 목표로 하는 세 가지 음소가 인식된 위치를 최종적으로 결정한다. 실험 결과를 통해, 제안하는 방식을 사용함으로써 기존의 방식들에 비해 FRR과 FAR의 관점에서 모두 오류율을 현저히 감소시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.483-489
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 저자원 환경의 음성인식에서 음향 모델의 성능을 높이기 위한 음향 모델 학습 방법을 제안한다. 저자원 환경이란, 음향 모델에서 100시간 미만의 학습 자료를 사용한 환경을 말한다. 저자원 환경의 음성인식에서는 음향 모델이 유사한 발음들을 잘 구분하지 못하는 문제가 발생한다. 예를 들면, 파열음 /d/와 /t/, 파열음 /g/와 /k/, 파찰음 /z/와 /ch/ 등의 발음은 저자원 환경에서 잘 구분하지 못한다. 자기 주의 메커니즘은 깊은 신경망 모델로부터 출력된 벡터에 대해 가중치를 부여하며, 이를 통해 저자원 환경에서 발생할 수 있는 유사한 발음 오류 문제를 해결한다. 음향 모델에서 좋은 성능을 보이는 Time Delay Neural Network(TDNN)과 Output gate Projected Gated Recurrent Unit(OPGRU)의 혼합 모델에 자기 주의 기반 학습 방법을 적용했을 때, 51.6 h 분량의 학습 자료를 사용한 한국어 음향 모델에 대하여 단어 오류율 기준 5.98 %의 성능을 보여 기존 기술 대비 0.74 %의 절대적 성능 개선을 보였다.