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An Acoustic Study of the Pronunciation of English Vowels Uttered by Korean Regional Dialect Speakers (지역 방언 화자에 따른 영어 모음의 발음 연구)

  • Koo, Hee-San
    • Speech Sciences
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.193-206
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    • 2001
  • The purpose of this experimental study was to investigate characteristics of English vowels uttered by Korean regional dialect speakers. Ten English mono-syllabic words, and eight Korean mono-syllabic words, were uttered six times by nine female graduate students from three areas: Seoul, Yongnam and Honam. Formant frequencies were measured from sound spectrograms made by the PC Quirer. Results showed that Seoul dialect speakers uttered English vowels more similar to those uttered by English native speakers than did the other dialect speakers. In particular, Yongnam dialect speakers have articulatory problems pronouncing the back vowels(/u/, /$\upsilon$/, /c/), while Honam dialect speakers have problems pronouncing the front vowels(/i/. /I/, /$\varepsilon$/, /$\ae$/). Even though each group has different problems pronouncing English vowels, Korean speakers generally have difficulty in discriminating tense vowels(/i/ and /u/) from the lax vowels(/I/ and /$\upsilon$/). It appears that the width of Korean speakers' articulatory movements is comparatively narrower than those of native English speakers.

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GEOMETRY OF L2(Ω, g)

  • Roh, Jaiok
    • Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.283-289
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    • 2006
  • Roh[1] derived 2D g-Navier-Stokes equations from 3D Navier-Stokes equations. In this paper, we will see the space $L^2({\Omega},\;g)$, which is the weighted space of $L^2({\Omega})$, as natural generalized space of $L^2({\Omega})$ which is mathematical setting for Navier-Stokes equations. Our future purpose is to use the space $L^2({\Omega},\;g)$ as mathematical setting for the g-Navier-Stokes equations. In addition, we will see Helmoltz-Leray projection on $L^2_{per}({\Omega},\;g)$) and compare with the one on $L^2_{per}({\Omega})$.

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Correlation of Acoustic Cues in Stop Productions of Korean and English Adults and Children

  • Kong, Eun-Jong;Weismer, Gary
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.29-37
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    • 2010
  • Previous studies have investigated a between-category relationship of multiple acoustic cues for a laryngeal contrast by examining the distributions of VOT, f0 and H1-H2. The current study examined within-category correlations between cues comprising stops by Korean- and English-speaking adults and children to understand how children master the internal structure of stop phonation types in two languages. Word-initial stops were collected from about 70 children and 15 adults speaking English and Korean, and were analyzed in terms of VOT, f0 and H1-H2 to compute correlation coefficients. Findings in adults' productions included a gender-differentiated cue-correlation pattern associated with H1-H2 in Korean tense stops and a trading relationship between f0 and VOT in Korean lax and aspirated stops and English voiced and voiceless stops. Children did not necessarily have adult-like cue-correlation patterns even in early-acquired categories, suggesting that the mastery of intra-category structure of phonation type might occur later than inter-category structure.

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The relation between phonetic differences of Korean learners' production of English vowels, pronunciation intelligibility and speaking proficiency test scores (한국인 학습자 영어 모음 발화의 음성학적 차이와 발음 이해도, 말하기 점수와의 관계)

  • Kim, Ji-Eun
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the relations between phonetic differences among Korean learners' production of English front vowels, pronunciation intelligibility and speaking proficiency test score. To do so, thirty Korean university students were asked (1) to read English text book paragraphs and (2) describe a picture. Two English native raters and one Korean rater evaluated Korean subjects' English pronunciation intelligibility and speaking. In addition, subjects' English vowel productions were acoustically analyzed(F0, F1, F2, vowel duration, intensity). The results of the study show that the vowel quality and pitch of the unstressed vowels and lax vowel are related to the pronunciation intelligibility. In addition, the scores of pronunciation intelligibility and speaking are highly related.

the On-Line Prediction of Water Levels using Kalman Filters (칼만 필터를 이용한 실시간 조위 예측)

  • 이재형;황만하
    • Water for future
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.83-94
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    • 1991
  • In this paper a discrete extended Kalman filter for the tidal prediction has been developed. The filter is based on a set of difference equations derived from the one dimensional shallow water equations using the finite difference scheme proposed by Lax-Wendroff. The filter gives estimates of the water level and water velocity, together with the parameters in the model which essentially have a random character, e.g. bottom friction and wind stress. The estimates are propagated and updated by the filter when the physical circumstances change. The Kalman-filter is applied to field data gathered in the coastal area alon the West Sea and it is shown that the filter gives satisfactory results in forecasting the waterlevels during storm surge periods.

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Variants of Compactness in Pointfree Topology

  • Banaschewski, Bernhard;Hong, Sung Sa
    • Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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    • v.45 no.4
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    • pp.455-470
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    • 2005
  • This paper introduces compactness notions for frames which are expressed in terms of the convergence of suitably specified general filters. It establishes several preservation properties for them as well as their coreflectiveness in the setting of regular frames. Further, it shows that supercompact, compact, and $Lindel{\ddot{o}}f$ frames can be described by compactness conditions of the present form so that various familiar facts become consequences of these general results. In addition, the Prime Ideal Theorem and the Axiom of Countable Choice are proved to be equivalent to certain conditions connected with the kind of compactness considered here.

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Application of DGFEM to 1D Boussinesq Equation (일차원 Boussinesq 방정식에 대한 불연속 갤러킨 기법의 적용)

  • Lee, Haegyun;Lee, Namjoo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2016.05a
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    • pp.470-474
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    • 2016
  • Madsen et al. (2002)이 제안한 일차원 고차 Boussinesq 방정식에 대하여 불연속갤러킨 유한요소법(Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method)을 적용하였다. 연속적인 Boussinesq 방정식에서 각 요소경계에 불연속을 허용할 수 있도록 공간차분하고, 시간방향으로 4차 Runge-Kutta 시간적분법, 각 요소사이에는 Lax-Friedrichs 수치흐름률을 사용하였다. 계산영역의 양쪽에 불필요한 파랑의 반사를 억제하도록 흡수층을 설치하였으며, 영역 내부에서 조파할 수 있도록 하였다. Luth et al.(1994)의 수중잠제 실험에 적용하여 관측값과 잘 일치함을 확인하였다.

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Simulation of Turbulent Flow and Surface Wave Fields around Series 60 $C_B$=0.6 Ship Model

  • Kim, Hyoung-Tae;Kim, Jung-Joong
    • Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.38-54
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    • 2001
  • A finite difference method for calculating turbulent flow and surface wave fields around a ship model is evaluated through the comparison with the experimental data of a Series 60 $C_B$=0.6 ship model. The method solves the Reynolds-averaged Navior-Stokes Equations using the non-staggered grid system, the four-stage Runge-Kutta scheme for the temporal integration of governing equations and the Bladwin-Lomax model for the turbulence closure. The free surface waves are captured by solving the equation of the kinematic free-surface condition using the Lax-Wendroff scheme and free-surface conforming grids are generated at each time step so that one of the grid surfaces coincides always with the free surface. The computational results show an overall close agreement with the experimental data and verify that the present method can simulate well the turbulent boundary layers and wakes as well as the free-surface waves.

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Voice onset time in English and Korean stops with respect to a sound change

  • Kim, Mi-Ryoung
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2021
  • Voice onset time (VOT) is known to be a primary acoustic cue that differentiates voiced from voiceless stops in the world's languages. While much attention has been given to the sound change of Korean stops, little attention has been given to that of English stops. This study examines VOT of stop consonants as produced by English speakers in comparison to Korean speakers to see whether there is any VOT change for English stops and how the effects of stop, place, gender, and individual on VOT differ cross-linguistically. A total of 24 native speakers (11 Americans and 13 Koreans) participated in this experiment. The results showed that, for Korean, the VOT merger of lax and aspirated stops was replicated, and, for English, voiced stops became initially devoiced and voiceless stops became heavily aspirated. English voiceless stops became longer in VOT than Korean counterparts. The results suggest that, similar to Korean stops, English stops may also undergo a sound change. Since it is the first study to be revealed, more convincing evidence is necessary.

About influence of the choice of numerical flow in the DG method for the solution of problems with shock waves

  • Mikhail M., Krasnov;Marina E., Ladonkina;Olga A., Nekliudova;Vladimir F., Tishkin
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.463-477
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    • 2022
  • This study compares various ways of calculating flows for the problems with the presence of shock waves by first-order schemes and higher-order DG method on the tests from the Quirk list, namely: Quirk's problem and its modifications, shock wave diffraction at a 90 degree corner, the problem of double Mach reflection. It is shown that the use of HLLC and Godunov's numerical schemes flows in calculations can lead to instability, the Rusanov-Lax-Friedrichs scheme flow can lead to high dissipation of the solution. The most universal in heavy production calculations are hybrid schemes flows, which allow the suppression of the development of instability and conserve the accuracy of the method.