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Mathematical Analysis of the Structure of Korean Characters (한글문자의 인식에 관한 연구(IV))

  • 최주근
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.25-32
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    • 1972
  • This paper: a) discusses the structure of Korean charactors from a unified point of view. The forming process of vowels, consonants, and the combined characters are described in the same way. b) makes clear that vowels and consonants are unique determinants of combined characters according to speech sound. c) describes the way in which 10 vowels and 14 consonants are arranged systematically by the matrix equation, which forms 14,364 kinds of combined characters.

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Articulatory and Acoustic Correlates of Korean /1/

  • Kwon Bo-Young
    • MALSORI
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    • no.56
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    • pp.75-101
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    • 2005
  • This study investigated the articulatory and acoustic correlates of Korean /1/. In particular, direct comparison between Korean /1/ and English /1/ was made to evaluate the current assumption about Korean /1/ such that Korean /1/ is phonetically similar to English clear /1/. The present study revealed that Korea /1/ is different from English /1/ in several properties. First, F2 for Korean /1/ is around 600-700 Hz higher than F2 for English /1/. The overall higher F2 for Korean /1/ is attributed to the fact that Korean /1/ involves tongue body raising while it lacks a dorsal gesture. Second, F3 value for Korean /1/ becomes significantly lower when the preceeding vowel is a back vowel. This kind of variable F3 pattern was not observed in English /1/. The current study relates the F3 lowering to the retroflexion of Korean /1/ in the back vowel context.

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Interaction between emotional content of word and prosody in the evaluation of emotional valence (정서의미 전달에 있어서 운율과 단어 정보의 상호작용.)

  • Choi, Moon-Gee;Nam, Ki-Chun
    • Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.67-70
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    • 2007
  • The present paper focuses on the interaction between lexical-semantic information and affective prosody. The previous studies showed that the influence of lexical-semantic information on the affective evaluation of the prosody was relatively clear, but the influence of emotional prosody on the word evaluation remains still ambiguous. In the present, we explore whether affective prosody influence on the evaluation of affective meaning of a word and vice versa, using more ecological stimulus (sentences) than simple words. We asked participants to evaluate the emotional valence of the sentences which were recorded with affective prosody (negative, neutral, and positive) in Experiment 1 and the emotional valence of their prosodies in Experiment 2. The results showed that the emotional valence of prosody can influence on the emotional evaluation of sentences and vice versa. Interestingly, the positive prosody is likely to be more responsible to this interaction.

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A Method of Evaluating Korean Articulation Quality for Rehabilitation of Articulation Disorder in Children

  • Lee, Keonsoo;Nam, Yunyoung
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.14 no.8
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    • pp.3257-3269
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    • 2020
  • Articulation disorders are characterized by an inability to achieve clear pronunciation due to misuse of the articulators. In this paper, a method of detecting such disorders by comparing to the standard pronunciations is proposed. This method defines the standard pronunciations from the speeches of normal children by clustering them with three features which are the Linear Predictive Cepstral Coefficient (LPCC), the Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC), and the Relative Spectral Analysis Perceptual Linear Prediction (RASTA-PLP). By calculating the distance between the centroid of the standard pronunciation and the inputted pronunciation, disordered speech whose features locates outside the cluster is detected. 89 children (58 of normal children and 31 of children with disorders) were recruited. 35 U-TAP test words were selected and each word's standard pronunciation is made from normal children and compared to each pronunciation of children with disorders. In the experiments, the pronunciations with disorders were successfully distinguished from the standard pronunciations.

Stress Patterns of Compound Nouns in English (영어 복합명사의 강세형)

  • Lee Yeong-Kil
    • MALSORI
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    • no.42
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    • pp.25-36
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    • 2001
  • Stress assignment has been much discussed in the literature on English compound nouns. The general view of the stress pattern of English compound nouns is that a main stress falls on the first element and a secondary stress on the second element; however, a stress pattern is often employed that provides counterevidence to the traditional pedagogical approach. A new idea is suggested by Ladd(1984) that 'compound stress represents the deaccenting of the head of the compound.' Recent studies show that initial stressing does not indicate compounds and syntactic phrases are not always characterized by final stressing. In his pilot test Pennanen comments on the frequent variation of stress patterns on individual items, on the basis of which Bauer confirms Pennanen's results with different informants. This paper is an attempt to justify Bauer's analysis with the same data as Bauer's and different subjects. It turns out that the competences of native-speaker informants do not rovide clear-cut answers. Some factors should be taken into account in assigning appropirate stress to compound nouns.

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HomeN manager system based on multimodal context-aware middleware (멀티모달 상황인지 미들웨어 기반의 홈앤(HomeN) 매니저 시스템)

  • Ahn, Se-Yeol;Park, Sung-Chan;Park, Seong-Soo;Koo, Myung-Wan;Jeong, Yeong-Joon;Kim, Myung-Sook
    • Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.120-123
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    • 2006
  • The provision of personalized user interfaces for mobile devices is expected to be used for different devices with a wide variety of capabilities and interaction modalities. In this paper, we implemented a multimodal context-aware middleware incorporating XML-based languages such as XHTML, VoiceXML. SCXML uses parallel states to invoke both XHTML and VoiceXML contents as well as to gather composite multimodal inputs or synchronize inter-modalities through man-machine I/Os. We developed home networking service named "HomeN" based on our middleware framework. It demonstrates that users could maintain multimodal scenarios in a clear, concise and consistent manner under various user's interactions.

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The Variable Acquisition of Discourse Marker Use in Korean American Speakers of English

  • Lee, Hi-Kyoung
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.1-18
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    • 2005
  • This study is a preliminary investigation of the nature of discourse marker acquisition in Korean American speakers of English. Discourse markers are of interest because they are not an aspect of language taught through formal instruction either to native or non-native speakers. Therefore, discourse marker use serves as indirect evidence of face-to-face interaction with native speakers and an indicator of integration. In this light, the present study examines the presence of discourse markers in Korean Americans. The markers chosen for analysis were you know, like, and I mean. The data consist of spontaneous speech elicited from interviews. Sociolinguistic variables such as age, sex, and generation (i.e., $1^{st}$, 1.5, $2^{nd}$) were examined. Results show that there appears to be interaction between the variables and discourse marker use. While all speakers showed variable acquisition of markers, younger, female, and 1.5 generation speakers were found to use discourse markers more than other speakers. Although discourse marker use is optional and thus not a linguistic feature that must be necessarily acquired, it is clear that use is pervasive and acquired differentially by English speakers irrespective of whether they are native or not.

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Two Ways of the Romanization of Korean - Transliteration of Hanngul and the Transcription of Korean Sounds - (한글 로마자 번자법(飜字法)과 우리말 로마자 표음법(表音法) - 두 가지 서로 다른 표기방식 대비예시(對比例示)를 곁들여 -)

  • Youe Mahn Gunn
    • MALSORI
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    • no.35_36
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    • pp.63-76
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    • 1998
  • The writer discusses the necessity of clear distinction between transliteration and transcription. Romanization problems in Korea have been entangled for decades by confusing and mixing those two. For the transliteration of Hanngul a new system with the utmost simplicity and perfect convertibility is suggested here. For the transcription of Korean sounds another system is suggested which can transcribe even the chroneme as well as all the phonemes. So it surpasses the current Hanngul orthography. Korean sentences containing many pairs of homographic heteronyms are romanized in the two ways side by side for the contrasting of the two systems.

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On The Voice Training of Stage Speech in Acting Education - Yuri Vasiliev's Stage Speech Training Method - (연기 교육에서 무대 언어의 발성 훈련에 관하여 - 유리 바실리예프의 무대 언어 훈련방법 -)

  • Xu, Cheng-Kang
    • Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.203-210
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    • 2021
  • Yuri Vasilyev - actor, director and drama teacher. Russian meritorious artist, winner of the stage "Medal of Friendship" awarded by Russian President Vladimir Putin; academician of the Petrovsky Academy of Sciences and Arts in Russia, professor of the Russian National Academy of Performing Arts, and professor of the Bavarian Academy of Drama in Munich, Germany. The physiological sense stimulation method based on the improvement of voice, language and motor function of drama actors. On the basis of a systematic understanding of performing arts, Yuri Vasiliev created a unique training method of speech expression and skills. From the complicated art training, we find out the most critical skills for focused training, which we call basic skills training. Throughout the whole training process, Professor Yuri made a clear request for the actor's lines: "action! This is the basis of actors' creation. So action is the key! Action and voice are closely linked. Actor's voice is human voice, human life, human feeling, human experience and disaster. It is also the foundation of creation that actors acquire their own voice. What we are engaged in is pronunciation, breathing, tone and intonation, speed and rhythm, expressiveness, sincerity, stage voice and movement, gesture, all of which are used to train the voice of actors according to the standard of drama. In short, Professor Yuri's training course is not only the training of stage performance and skills, but also contains a rich view of drama and performance. I think, in addition to learning from the means and methods of training, it is more important for us to understand the starting point and training objectives of Professor Yuri's use of these exercises.

Speech Recognition Using Linear Discriminant Analysis and Common Vector Extraction (선형 판별분석과 공통벡터 추출방법을 이용한 음성인식)

  • 남명우;노승용
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.35-41
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    • 2001
  • This paper describes Linear Discriminant Analysis and common vector extraction for speech recognition. Voice signal contains psychological and physiological properties of the speaker as well as dialect differences, acoustical environment effects, and phase differences. For these reasons, the same word spelled out by different speakers can be very different heard. This property of speech signal make it very difficult to extract common properties in the same speech class (word or phoneme). Linear algebra method like BT (Karhunen-Loeve Transformation) is generally used for common properties extraction In the speech signals, but common vector extraction which is suggested by M. Bilginer et at. is used in this paper. The method of M. Bilginer et al. extracts the optimized common vector from the speech signals used for training. And it has 100% recognition accuracy in the trained data which is used for common vector extraction. In spite of these characteristics, the method has some drawback-we cannot use numbers of speech signal for training and the discriminant information among common vectors is not defined. This paper suggests advanced method which can reduce error rate by maximizing the discriminant information among common vectors. And novel method to normalize the size of common vector also added. The result shows improved performance of algorithm and better recognition accuracy of 2% than conventional method.

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