• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권10호
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• pp.1879-1890
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• 2011

Previous studies of syllable frequency effects have proposed that inhibitory effects due to high first syllable frequency were the products of competitions between activated lexical candidates within a lexical level. However, these studies have primarily used lexical decision tasks to examine the nature of syllable frequency effects. This study investigates whether a syllable frequency effect can arise in semantic categorization tasks and whether phonologically or orthographically defined syllables interact with semantically related variables such as morphological family size. If the syllable frequency effect was created by activations and competitions on a lexical level, it is highly possible that the effect was related to semantic categorization tasks. To test this hypothesis, we conducted two experiments. In Experiment 1, morphological family size and phonological syllable frequency were factorially manipulated. In Experiment 2, morphological family size and orthographic syllable frequency were factorially manipulated. The results demonstrate that morphemes have no relationship with phonological syllables but do with orthographic syllables. This suggests that phonological syllables and orthographic syllables have different roles in the syllable frequency effect on visual word recognition process.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.433-438
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• 2021

본 연구는 자동화된 어휘 분석 프로그램인 TAALES를 활용하여 영어능력 수준과 어휘의 정교화 지표간의 관계를 살펴본다. 본 연구에서는 ICNALE 코퍼스에 포함된 한국인 대학생이 작성한 에세이 600개를 분석하였다. 본 연구에서는 영어 수준별로 어휘의 정교화 특성이 통계적으로 유의미하게 다르게 나타나는가를 살펴보기 위해 다변량 분산분석이 수행되었다. 다변량 분산분석 결과 어휘의 정교화 지표가 통계적으로 유의미한 것으로 나타났으며, 이는 상. 중. 하의 세 개의 집단에 따라 어휘의 정교화 지표의 평균벡터에 유의미한 차이가 있고 상. 중. 하의 세 집단은 어휘의 정교화 지표의 사용이 유의미하게 다르다는 것을 보여준다. 세 집단 간에 가장 큰 차이를 보인 어휘의 정교화 지표는 내용어의 빈도, 내용어의 친숙도, 기능어의 어휘 결정 반응 평균 시간, 상위어 동사, 기능어의 워드 네이밍 반응시간, 내용어의 어휘 습득 연령으로 나타났다.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2007년도 한국음성과학회 공동학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.173-175
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• 2007

The lexical decision task (LDT) commonly postulates the activation of semantic level. However, there are few studies for the feedback effect from semantic level. The purpose of the present study is to investigate whether the feedback effect from semantic level is facilitatory or inhibitory in Korean LDT. In Experiment 1, we manipulated the number of phonological syllable neighbors (PSN) and the number of semantic neighbors (SEN) orthogonally while orthographic syllable neighbor (OSN) is dense. In the results, the significant facilitatory effect was shown in words with many SEN. In Experiment 2, we examined same conditions as Experiment 1 but OSN was sparse. Although the similar lexical decision latency pattern was shown, there was no statistical significance. These results can be explained by the feedback activation from semantic level. If a target has many SENs and many PSNs, it receives more feedback activation from semantic level than a target with few SENs and PSNs.

• 인지과학
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.91-107
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• 2014

음절 빈도 효과란 고빈도 음절로 시작되는 단어가 저빈도 음절로 시작되는 단어에 비해 어휘 판단 속도가 느리며 어휘 판단 오류율도 증가하는 효과를 의미한다. 이 효과를 유발하는 원인은 전체 단어 수준에서 활성화된 음절 이웃 단어의 방해로 알려져 있으며 이 방해의 크기는 표적 단어가 얼마나 많은 음절 이웃 단어를 또는 얼마나 강력한 음절 이웃 단어를 가지고 있는지에 의해 결정된다. 그러나 음절 빈도의 정의가 음절 타입 빈도와 토큰 빈도로 구분됨에도 불구하고 이를 구분하지 않고 많은 연구들이 수행되어 왔다. 최근 Conrad, Carreiras, & Jacobs(2008)에 따르면 음절 토큰 빈도는 전체 단어 처리 수준을 반영하는 변인이며 음절 타입 빈도는 하위 어휘 처리 수준의 음절 처리 수준을 반영하는 변인일 수 있다고 주장하였다. 이에 본 연구는 이들의 주장이 맞다면 음절 타입 빈도는 단어 명명 속도를 촉진 시킬 것이며 반대로 음절 토큰 빈도는 명명 시간과 관련 없을 것이라고 예측하였다. 왜냐하면 표기 심도가 얕고 음절의 경계가 명확한 언어에서 명명 과제는 전체 단어수준을 덜 참고하기 때문이었다. 실험 1결과에서 음절 토큰 빈도를 통제한 상태에서 고빈도 타입음절의 단어 명명 시간은 유의미하게 짧았다. 실험 2에서 음절 타입 빈도를 통제한 상태에서 음절토큰 빈도의 증가는 명명 시간을 역시 단축시켰다. 이에 본 연구는 음절 토큰 빈도가 하위 어휘 처리와 무관하다는 Conrad, Carreiras, & Jacobs(2008)의 주장을 반박하였다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.23-29
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• 2016

The present study tested if individual speakers showing great sound change in segments (i.e., vowels and fricatives) also had innovative changing patterns in suprasegmental properties (i.e., lexical pitch accents) in Kyungsang Korean. The acoustic analysis at a group level first confirmed the presence of group level differences in distinguishing /ɨ-ʌ/ and /s-s'/ both of which had different phonemic distinction from Seoul Korean. Younger speakers had more innovative segmental change than older speakers, and even within the younger generation, female speakers produced more innovative phonetic variants than male speakers. Regarding the individual observation within the younger group, the younger speakers with large acoustic distinction in vowels and fricatives also showed acoustically less distinct accent patterns, indicating the innovative sound change pattern consistent across segment and suprasegmental properties. The group and individual observations suggested that linguistic innovators introduced new phonetic variants with consistent degree of changing pattern between segment and suprasegmental properties.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2018

This study compared the relative contributions of intensity, F0, duration and vowel spectra of L2 English lexical stress by Japanese and Korean learners of English. Recordings of Japanese, Korean and native English speakers reading eighteen 2 to 4 syllable words in a carrier sentence were analyzed using multiple regression to investigate the influence of each acoustic correlate in determining whether a vowel was stressed. The relative contribution of each correlate was calculated by converting the coefficients to percentages. The Japanese learner group showed phonological transfer of L1 phonology to L2 lexical prosody and relied mostly on F0 and duration in manifesting L2 English stress. This is consistent with the results of the previous studies. However, advanced Japanese speakers in the group showed less reliance on F0, and more use of intensity, which is another parameter used in native English stress accents. On the other hand, there was little influence of F0 on L2 English stress by the Korean learners, probably due to the transfer of the Korean intonation pattern to L2 English prosody. Hence, this study shows that L1 transfer happens at the prosodic level for Japanese learners of English and at the intonational level for Korean learners.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.17-27
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• 2009

Despite many studies on the production and perception of L2 phonemes, studies on how such phonemes are encoded lexically remain scarce. The aim of this study is to examine whether L2 learners have a perceptual problem with L2 suprasegmentals which are not present in their L1, or if they are able to perceive but not able to encode them in their lexicon. Specifically, Korean learners were tested to see if they could discriminate the vowel length differences in Japanese at the psychoacoustic level through a simple AX discrimination task. Then, a speeded lexical decision task with high phonetic variability was conducted to see whether they could use such contrasts lexically. The results showed that Korean learners of Japanese have no difficulties in discriminating Japanese vowel length contrast, but they are unable to encode such contrast in their phonological representation, even with long L2 exposure.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2003년도 10월 학술대회지
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• pp.153-156
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• 2003

Voice input is often required in many new application environments such as telephone-based information retrieval, car navigation systems, and user-friendly interfaces, but the low success rate of speech recognition makes it difficult to extend its application to new fields. Popular approaches to increase the accuracy of the recognition rate have been researched by post-processing of the recognition results, but previous approaches were mainly lexical-oriented ones in post error correction. We suggest a new semantic-oriented approach to correct both semantic level and lexical errors, which is also more accurate for especially domain-specific speech error correction. Through extensive experiments using a speech-driven in-vehicle telematics information application, we demonstrate the superior performance of our approach and some advantages over previous lexical-oriented approaches.

• 음성과학
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.237-245
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics for cohesion in the narratives of fluent aphasics. Ten fluent aphasics and ten normal adults matched chronological-age and education level with aphasics participated in this study. Story retelling task was given to the participants individually. And all narratives they produced were recorded and transcribed for analysis. The frequency of cohesive markers and the rate of accuracy were analyzed. The result were as follows; (1) The fluent aphasics used cohesive devices significantly less than the normal adult group, and the rate of accuracy of cohesive devices used was lower than the normal adults. (2) Both groups used lexical cohesion more than pro-forms and ellipsis, and the difference of two groups was larger in lexical cohesion than pro-forms and ellipsis. (3) The fluent aphasics used lexical cohesion more accurately than pro-forms and ellipsis but the normal adults used all three cohesive markers accurately. The difference of two groups was large in pro-forms and ellipsis.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.29-38
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• 2015

This study explores reading fluency among elementary school students considering language level and family income(low SES). Forty eight students from 1st to 3rd grades participated in two paragraph reading tasks. Half of the children were from low income family and half of the children had low lexical knowledge. Reading fluency as in the number of correctly read syllables per minute, the total error frequency and error types were used to compare group differences. There were significant differences in the number of correctly read syllables per minute between two income groups and two language groups. There was a significant difference between low income group and non-low income group in total number of errors only when children's lexical knowledge were low. There were no group differences in error types of repetition and omission. Substitution and insertion error seemed to reflect the total error pattern. These results imply the importance of early screening and early involvement for children with low lexical knowledge from low income family. Monitoring and early intervention will support these children's reading development.