• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.41-54
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to investigate predictors concerning preschoolers' ability to read words, in terms of their sub-skills of alphabet knowledge, phonological awareness, and phonological processing. Fourteen literacy sub-tests and three types of reading tasks were administered to 289 kindergartners aged 4 to 6 in Busan. The main results are as follows. Sub-skills that predicted reading ability varied with children's age. Irrespective of children's age groups, knowledge of consonant names and digit naming speed commonly explained the reading of real words. In contrast, skills of syllable deletion and phoneme substitution and knowledge of alphabet composition principles were related to only 4-year-olds' reading skills. Exclusively included was digit memory in predicting 5-year-olds' reading abilities, and knowledge of vowel sounds in 6-year-olds' reading skills. The type of reading task also influenced reading ability. A few common variables such as knowledge of consonant names and vowel sounds, digit naming speed, and phoneme substitution skill explained all types of word reading. Syllable counting skills, however, had predictive value only for the reading of real words. Phoneme insertion skills and digit memory had predictive value for the reading of pseudo words and low frequency letters. Likewise, knowledge of consonant sounds and vowel stroke-adding principles were significant only for the reading of low frequency letters.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.1002-1013
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• 1996

문자 분할은 필기체 문서 서식의 자동 인식 과정에서 중요한 부분이다. 본 연구는 off-line 필기체 한글로부터 문자를 분할하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 한글의 구조적 특성에 기반을 두고 있다. 먼저 투영에 의하여 입력 단어로 부터 분할 을 위한 특징과 연결 화소, 획을 추출한다. 두 번째 단계에서 획의 모양과 위치, 획과 획과의 관계를 이용하여 한글의 기본 자소 클래스 영역을 찾는다. 세 번째 단계는 분할 과정으로 WRC(While Run Column)다음에 초성이나 수평 모음이 오는 경우 이 WRC에서 수직으로 분할하며, 분할된 세그먼트의 길이가 임계값 이상아면 자소 클래 스와 문자의 칼럼에 대한 특징을 이용하여 예상 분할 영역을 찾고, 이 영역에 있는 획을 따라 요철 형태로 분할한다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.264-269
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 영어 2음절 단어가 한국어에 차용될 때 어떻게 음절수가 변화하는지 살펴보고 있다. 일반적으로 영어 2음절 단어는 여분의 음절이 더해져서 차용되는 경향이 강하므로, 본 논문에서는 음절수가 증가하는 경향을 분석하여 음절수를 증가시키는 조건을 밝힐 뿐 만 아니라 음절수 증가 알고리즘을 찾아내는 것을 목표로 한다. 구체적으로 영어 2음절 차용어의 음절수를 증가시키는 요인으로는, 첫째 단어에 이중 모음이 있거나, 둘째 특정한 형태의 자음군이 있거나, 셋째 단어에서 마지막 자음과 그 앞의 모음의 특성에 따라서 어말 모음이 삽입되는 경우에 음절수가 증가한다. 이러한 요인에 근거하여 2음절 차용어의 음절수 예측 알고리즘을 4가지 규칙으로 제시하고 그 적용과정의 예를 들고 있다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.251-256
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• 2005

영어 단음절 차용어가 한국어에 적응될 때 여분의 음절이 더해져서 음절수가 증가하는 경향이 있다. 본 논문에서는 음절수를 증가시키는 구체적인 조건을 밝힐 뿐만 아니라, 음절수를 예측하는 알고리즘을 제안하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 음절수를 증가시키는 요인은 3가지가 있는데, 우선 단어에 이중 모음이나 자음 군이 있으면 음절수가 증가한다. 세 번째 요인으로는, 단어에서 마지막 자음의 특성에 따라서 어말 모음이 삽입될 수 있다. 이 세 가지 요인에 근거하여 단음절 차용어의 음절수 예측 알고리즘을 3가지 규칙으로 제시하고 그 구체적인 적용과정을 데이터를 통해서 보여주고 있다.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제31_32호
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• pp.51-82
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• 1996

The purpose of this paper is to gather pairs of heteronyms in Modem Korean and to propose that all of them should be differentiated in both the Hanngul orthography and Romanization as well as in the IPA transcription. More than a quarter of the whole Korean vocabulary consists of words with a long vowel and the number of minimal pairs distinguished only by the chroneme reaches nearly ten thousand (ie. twenty thousand words). It is suggested here that the letter s in Hanngul and the letter 'h' in the Roman alphabet be used to represent the long vowel. Another factor which brings forth lots of heteronyms in Korean is the lacking of enough indication as to non-automatic reinforcement in the initial consonant o( a word (or a morpheme) when following another within a phrase (or a word). It is proposed here that the non-automatincally rienforced word-initial consonant should be written with the letter h (like ㅺ, ㅼ, ㅽ, ㅾ) and an apostrophe (like 물'새 or 밭'이랑, 물'약) in Hanngul, and with the letter c and an apostrophe (like c'g-, c'd-, c'b-, c'j- ) in the Roman alphabet The morpheme-initial reinforced consonant within a word is written with the letters k, 1, p and cz for ㅺ, ㅼ, ㅽ, and ㅾ respectively. The contrasted pronunciations of pairs of heteronyms beginning with ㅁ/m sound are transcribed here for exemplification in the IPA, Roman alphabet and Hanngul.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.27-31
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• 1998

Nasal sounds include nasalized vowels and consonants. Nasal cavity is important for the acoustics of nasal sounds. Evaluating the effects of site-specific nasal obstruction on nasal sound will help us to understand the importance of nasal geometry for the nasal sound and to foretell voice change after nasal surgery This study was designed to analyze the change of nasality and formant characteristics of nasal sound by obstructing different sites around the ostiomeatal unit(OMU). Ten adult male and female volunteers participated. The nasal formants and bandwidths of nasal consonant /n/ were checked in various conditions of nasal obstruction. The nasalance of rabbit, baby, and mama passages were compared in each conditions. Nasalance of all passages decreased when anterior portion of OMU was obstructed. Center frequency of first nasal formant(NF1) of /n/ has decreased in the order of anterior, inferior obstruction. The bandwidth of NF1 decreased in female with anterior obstruction. Anterior portion of OMU is most critical to the change of nasality and acoustics of nasal consonant. When anterior portion of OMU is obstructed, the shift of NF1 to a lower frequency and the narrowing of NF1 bandwidth are the major acoustic changes of nasal consonant /n/.

• 음성과학
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.229-247
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• 2000

The purpose of this study is to examine the improvement effect of articulation of the fricative consonant /s/(ㅅ), when applying the Articulation Modification Program (AMP) to hearing disordered students. Three hearing disordered students were selected for this study by the consonant picture and Korean Articulation Sentence tests. They have no defect in their emotion, behavior and sight. This program applied the multiple baseline design across subjects to examine the improvement effect of articulation of fricative consonant /s/(ㅅ). Also I designed th$\sim$s program with an advanced pre-test and post-test in order to research the improvement difference of articulation by articulation position and language unit. It was executed 32 sessions over three months, four sessions a week, one session taking forty minutes. The results according to the study subject are as follow; First, as result of AMP, articulation of all students was developed after applying this program. Second, as result of AMP, articulation in fore-word was one-hundred percent efficiency and articulation in middle-word was 97.7% efficiency by position. Third, as result of AMP, articulation in the word reached 98.7% efficiency, in phrase 97.7% efficiency, in the sentence 97.7% efficiency and in the story was 98.3% efficiency by language unit.

• 음성과학
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.127-138
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• 2000

The aim of this paper is to find the speech problems of English Laterals by Korean learners and to contribute to the effective pronunciation education with visualizing the pronunciation. In this paper we analyzed 18 words including lateral sounds which were divided into such as: initial, initial consonant cluster, intervocalic, final consonant cluster, and final. To analyse the words we used High speed speech analysis system. We examined acoustic characteristics of English lateral spectrogram by using voice sustained time(ms), FL1, FL2, FL3. Before we started, we had expected that the result would show us that the mother tongue interfere in the final sounds because we have similar sounds in Korea. The results of our experiments showed that initially, voice sustained time showed many more differences between Korean and native pronunciation. Also, it was seen that Korean pronunciation used the syllable structure of the own mother tongue. For instance, in the case of initial consonant cluster CCVC, Koreans often used CC as a syllable and VC as another. This was due to the mother tongue interference. For this reason in the intervocalic and in the final, we saw the differences between Korean and native. Therefore we have to accept the visualized analysis system in the instruction of pronunciation.

• 음성과학
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.113-128
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• 2005

The underlying premise of this study was that L1 production is easily transferred into L2 production. In neutral intonation, there is a consonant-tone correlation in Korean: High tone patterns are correlated with voiceless aspirated and tense consonants and Low-High tone patterns are correlated with lax or other voiced consonants. The purpose of this study was to see whether the correlation in Korean (L1) is transferred into English (L2) production and whether the degree of transfer differs depending on the degree of proficiency. Eight Korean speakers and two American speakers participated in the experiment. F0 contours of words and sentences were collected and analyzed. The results of the present study showed that there is a strong correlation between voicing and tone in L2 utterances. When utterance-initial consonant types were voiceless, the word or the sentence began with the H pattern; otherwise it had the LH pattern. The degree of interference differed depending on the degree of proficiency: less proficient speakers showed a stronger correlation in terms of the magnitude (Hz) and size (ms) of the effects on F0. The results indicate that the consonant-tone correlation in L1 is strongly transferred into L2 production and the correlation transfer can be one of the actual aspects that cause L2 speakers to produce deviant L2 accents and intonation.

• 음성과학
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.93-109
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• 2007

It is reported that the orthognathic patients suffer from not only aesthetic problems but also resonance disorder and articulation disorder because of the abnormality of the oral cavity. This study was designed to investigate the resonance of nasality and the intelligibility of speech for acoustic characteristics of patients' speech before and after orthognatic surgery. 8 orthognathic patients participated in the study. The nasality of words containing Korean consonants, Korean consonants and frequency and intensity of the fricative /s/ were measured using Nasometer and CSL (Computerized Speech Lab). Results were as follows: First, the nasality of post orthognathic surgery patients decreased in spontaneous speech. There was a significant difference in the nasality for all words between pre and post orthognatic surgery patients. Second, the nasality of each Korean consonant phoneme of post orthognathic surgery patients decreased. There was also a significant difference of the nasality for each Korean consonant phoneme between pre and post orthognatic surgery patients. Third, the decreased nasality for Korean consonant phonemes showed in plosives, affricates, fricatives, liquids, and nasals after surgery. But the significant difference showed only in plosives and fricatives. Finally, frequency and intensity for the fricative /s/ of post orthognathic patients increased.