• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2004년도 춘계 학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.251-255
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• 2004

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of using songs for the acquisition of English Prosody in elementary school. For the purpose, 8 classes were chosen to teach songs for four months, and listening tests and reading test were performed for analyzing the effect. The result is as follows : (1) The result of listening test showed that the average scores of the experimental classes were higher than those of comparative classes, and it was more effective in lower grades than in upper grades. (2) In pronunciation tests, the pronunciations of experimental classes were more similar to native speaker's pronunciation that those of comparative classes in intonation, lexical stress and sentence stress. (3) Singing songs repeatedly is more important than learning many songs. It means that to give the chances to sing as many times as possible is advisable for teaching pronunciation.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.128-136
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• 2016

It is impossible for any human being to analyze the more than 500 million tweets that are generated per day. Lexical ambiguities on Twitter make it difficult to retrieve the desired data and relevant topics. Most of the solutions for the word sense disambiguation problem rely on knowledge base systems. Unfortunately, it is expensive and time-consuming to manually create a knowledge base system, resulting in a knowledge acquisition bottleneck. To solve the knowledge-acquisition bottleneck, a topic signature is used to disambiguate words. In this paper, we evaluate the effectiveness of various features of newspapers on the topic signature extraction for word sense discrimination in tweets. Based on our results, topic signatures obtained from a snippet feature exhibit higher accuracy in discriminating company names than those from the article body. We conclude that topic signatures extracted from news articles improve the accuracy of word sense discrimination in the automated analysis of tweets.

• 한국영어학회지:영어학
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.527-545
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• 2003

I look at the respective responsibilities of different components of the language faculty in the description of two radically different kinds of linguistic phenomenon. The first is the production/perception mismatch in the child's acquisition of the phonology of its first language. There is strong evidence that the child's lexical representations are the same as the adult's, but I argue that the child's own pronunciations, have no linguistic status and are best treated as the product of a neural network. The second is the nature of compositionality, where I argue that compositionality in Natural Language is derivative from that in the Language of Thought. With this assumption and using evidence from quantification in ‘backward control’ structures, I argue that chain theory is intrinsically inimical to a simple view of the legibility relation between LF and LoT.

• 음성과학
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.71-87
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• 2004

Korean has a pair of voiceless fricatives, whose laryngeal manifestation comes in parallel to stops and affricates with a three-way lexical contrast. Prior phonetic studies by Kagaya (1974), Iverson (1983), and Kang (1999, 2000) point out /s/ is associated with multiple characteristics of the larynx shared with not only the lax but also the aspirated series, whereas /s' / carries a laryngeal distinction typical of the tense consonants. The complex dual nature of /s/ is again supported by a psycholinguistic study by Kang (2004), as /s/ was found to interact with /$c^h$/ (17% of the time) as well as /c/ (57%) in speech errors. In addition, a recent work by Cho and Lee (2003) notes an interesting chain shift case in the acquisition of the fricatives. Although they observed a significant phonological pattern between child English and Korean, Cho and Lee's description of acquiring fricatives is far from being precise from the perspective of phonetics. From a longitudinal study of recorded tapes by two children at 1;7-3;8 and 1;7-2;1 respectively, I found that /s' / was usually substituted into tense noncontinuants in young children's early production as predicted, whereas /s/ having both lax and aspirated-like glottal properties revealed a complicated pattern of substitutions into lax, tense, and aspirated noncontinuants with a varying degree of preference relative to the subjects. The current acquisition study supports the previous claims concerning fricatives in other languages, showing that their acquisition comes after stops. Besides, it also notes that Korean fricatives are subject to a series of phonological processes called stopping, affricating, tensifying and palatalizing during the transitional period of phonological development by young children. Moreover, between the two voiceless types, /s/ was acquired earlier than /s'/ as the unmarked segment.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.107-116
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• 2015

The present experiment investigated the effect of word length on the length of f0 intervals for North Kyungsang children. In order to find out the lengths of the f0 intervals, the f0 values at the midpoints of vowels in words were measured. F0 estimates were computed as intervals consistent with the logarithmic scale corresponding to the number of syllables in the words. The results indicated that the mean f0 intervals in words of different lengths showed a significant difference for the HH in HH vs. HHL and the LH in LH vs. LLH for North Kyungsang children. Adult speakers from the North Kyungsang region significantly differed only within the HH in HH vs. HHL. Adult speakers made a noticeable contribution in this characteristic from the children. The result of the adult study was presented to confirm whether the children used a North Kyungsang dialect. With respect to individual speaker differences, the North Kyungsang children showed more or less consistent patterns in quantile-quantile plots for the HH vs. HHL, but for the HL vs. LHL and LH vs. LLH, there were more variations than for the HH vs. HHL. The individual speakers' variation was the largest for the HL vs. LHL and the smallest for HH vs. HHL. Considering these results, the effect of word length on f0 intervals tended to show pitch accent-type-specific characteristics in the process of prosodic acquisition.

• 한국어교육
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.93-112
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to deal with vocabulary in KFL. As a result of this study, learners learned vocabulary on average 43 points through contextual inference and introduction of the class to activate background knowledge. In particular, the implicit method showed the highest learning rate of 52 points, and the thematic method had a 41 point-learning rate. In contrast, the semantic method was the lowest with a 25 point-learning rate. There was no significant difference in the improvement rate of upper vocabulary learners, but in the case of the lower learner, there was significant difference in the improvement rate. The difference was not significant in the post-test relative gain rate of upper learners, but there was significant in lower learners. In the delayed test relative gain rate, the difference was significant in all groups. There was correlation between vocabulary difficulty and score, but there was no correlation with the thematic method. And there was no correlation between vocabulary difficulty, improvement rate and relative gain rate in all three classes. However, content understanding, lexical grade, improvement rate, and relative gain rate showed a significant correlation.

• 한국정보과학회 언어공학연구회:학술대회논문집(한글 및 한국어 정보처리)
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• 한국정보과학회언어공학연구회 1998년도 제10회 한글 및 한국어 정보처리 학술대회
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• pp.20-27
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• 1998

기존의 어휘규칙기반 품사태거는 품사문맥이나 어휘확률만을 사용하는 통계적 품사태거에 의해 해결되지 않는 형태론적 중의성을 어휘문맥을 참조하는 어휘규칙을 사용함으로써 효과적으로 해결할 수 있었다. 그러나 어휘규칙을 수작업으로 획득하기 때문에 규칙 획득에 많은 시간이 소요되어 소량의 규칙만이 사용되었다. 본 논문에서는 품사부착말뭉치로부터 어휘규칙을 자동으로 획득하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법으로 자동획득된 어휘규칙을 사용하여 실험말뭉치의 66.1%를 98.8%의 정확률로 태깅하였다. 이로써 통계적 품사태거만을 사용할 때(95.43% 정확률) 보다 어휘규칙과 결합할 때(96.12% 정확률) 통계적 품사태거의 성능이 약 15.1%(0.69% 정확률)만큼 향상되었다. 또한 제안된 방법은 영어 품사태깅에 대해서도 효과적임이 실험을 통해 증명되었다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.434-442
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• 2003

특정한 언어 (영어)로 구현된 소프트웨어를 다른 언어 (한국어, 중국어 등)에서 처리할 수 있도록 하는 과정인 소프트웨어의 국제화는 음성기술 분야에 적응할 때 매우 복잡해진다. 그 이유는 음성 자체가 언어와 많은 연관 관계를 갖기 때문이다. 그러나 어떠한 언어라 해도 그 나라의 언어표현은ASCII코드나 혹은 그 나라 고유의 코드 기반으로 소프트웨어를 처리한다. 영어의 경우는 ASCII코드의 코드체계로 이루어지지만 다른 나라 언어인 경우 다른 형태의 언어코드를 사용하는 것이 일반적이다. 음성 처리에서 언어의 본질적 특성은 어휘모델에 나타난다. 어휘모델은 문자집합, 음소집합, 발음규칙으로 구성된다. 본 논문에서는 다국어 음성인식처리를 위한 어휘모델을 자동으로 생성하기 위하여, 4단계로 나누어 처리하는 어휘모델 구축 방법을 제안한다. 우선 전처리 과정으로 특정한 언어로 표현한 단어를 유니코드로 변환한다. (1단계) 유니코드로부터 중간 형태 코드로의 변환 (2단계) 발음 형태를 기본으로 하는 표준화된 규칙 적용 (3단계) 음소 규칙들에 의한 문자소 구현 (4단계) 음운론을 적용하는 순서로 구성된다.

• 아시아태평양코퍼스연구
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.23-36
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• 2024

This research centers on the Taiwan Eye-Movement Corpus of Spanish (TECS), a specially created corpus comprising eye-tracking data from Chinese-speaking learners of Spanish as a third language in Taiwan. Its primary purpose is to explore the broad utility of TECS in understanding language learning processes, particularly the initial stages of language learning. Constructing this corpus involves gathering data on eye-tracking, reading comprehension, and language proficiency to develop a machine-learning model that predicts learner behaviors, and subsequently undergoes a predictability test for validation. The focus is on examining attention in input processing and their relationship to language learning outcomes. The TECS eye-tracking data consists of indicators derived from eye movement recordings while reading Spanish sentences with temporal references. These indicators are obtained from eye movement experiments focusing on tense verbal inflections and temporal adverbs. Chinese expresses tense using aspect markers, lexical references, and contextual cues, differing significantly from inflectional languages like Spanish. Chinese-speaking learners of Spanish face particular challenges in learning verbal morphology and tenses. The data from eye movement experiments were structured into feature vectors, with learner behaviors serving as class labels. After categorizing the collected data, we used two types of machine learning methods for classification and regression: Random Forests and the k-nearest neighbors algorithm (KNN). By leveraging these algorithms, we predicted learner behaviors and conducted performance evaluations to enhance our understanding of the nexus between learner behaviors and language learning process. Future research may further enrich TECS by gathering data from subsequent eye-movement experiments, specifically targeting various Spanish tenses and temporal lexical references during text reading. These endeavors promise to broaden and refine the corpus, advancing our understanding of language processing.

• 인지과학
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.203-235
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• 2013

본 연구의 목적은 선행 연구에서 보고된 영어 모국어 아동의 굴절형태소 습득 과정을 대규모 언어습득 데이터베이스를 활용하여 검증하는 것이다. 이를 위해, 우리는 CHILDES(Child Language Data Exchange System) 데이터베이스에 등장하는 1-7세 영국 및 미국 아동 1,630명이 발화한 470만 어절 말뭉치를 대상으로 굴절형태소의 발달 과정을 분석하였다. 본 논문에서는 동사의 현재분사 -ing, 과거형 -(e)d, 형용사의 비교/최상급 -er/est 등의 형태소에 대해 어휘 유형(Type)과 사례(Token) 빈도, 전체 사례(Token)에 대한 유형(Type) 비율인 TTR(Type per Token Ratio), 어휘 다양성 척도인 Lexical Diversity(D) 값을 구하여 이를 국가 및 연령별로 비교, 분석하였다. 그 결과, 굴절형태소별로 연령과 D 값의 상관관계가 다르게 나타났다. 특히, 현재분사 -ing와 D 값 사이에는 주목할 만한 상관관계가 나타나지 않은 반면, 과거형 -(e)d의 경우 양의 상관관계 경향성이 보였고, 비교/최상급 -er/-est는 유의미한 상관관계를 보였다. 이는 현재진행형이 과거형보다 먼저 습득된다고 보고한 Brown(1973)의 견해를 지지한다. 다음으로, 과잉일반화에 따른 오류 표현이 2-3세 사이에 많이 나타나면서 U자형 발달 양상을 보였다. 과잉일반화도 현재분사보다 과거형에서 많이 나타났는데, 이것 또한 현재분사가 과거형보다 일찍 습득된다는 주장을 지지한다. 영국과 미국 아동의 연령별 굴절형태소 사용 양상을 비교한 결과, 미국 아동의 D 값이 영국 아동보다 높았다. 이는 미국 아동이 영국 아동보다 더 많은 어휘 유형에 대해 굴절형태소를 사용했음을 의미한다. 본 연구는 소수의 아동을 대상으로 수행된 선행 연구의 다양한 논점을 대규모 데이터베이스로 검증하고, CHILDES 코퍼스를 효율적으로 분석하는 연구 방법론을 제안했다는 점에서 의의가 있다.