• 아시아태평양코퍼스연구
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.31-41
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• 2021

This paper makes a quantitative analysis of the diachronic evolution of ancient Chinese vocabulary by constructing and counting a large-scale rough annotated corpus. The texts from Si Ku Quan Shu (a collection of Chinese ancient books) are automatically segmented to obtain ancient Chinese vocabulary with time information, which is used to the statistics on word frequency, standardized type/token ratio and proportion of monosyllabic words and dissyllabic words. Through data analysis, this study has the following four findings. Firstly, the high-frequency words in ancient Chinese are stable to a certain extent. Secondly, there is no obvious dissyllabic trend in ancient Chinese vocabulary. Moreover, the Northern and Southern Dynasties (420-589 AD) and Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368 AD) are probably the two periods with the most abundant vocabulary in ancient Chinese. Finally, the unique words with high frequency in each dynasty are mainly official titles with real power. These findings break away from qualitative methods used in traditional researches on Chinese language history and instead uses quantitative methods to draw macroscopic conclusions from large-scale corpus.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제56호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2005

This study examined the speech intelligibility of one-syllable words with phonetic contrasts and analyzed segmental factors that can predict the overall speech intelligibility in hearing-impaired adults. To identify the speech error characteristics, a Korean word list was audio-recorded by 7 hearing-impaired adults, and 35 listeners selected the heard word out of 5 choices. Based in part on previous studies of speech of the hearing impaired, the word list consisted of monosyllabic consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) real word pairs. Stimulus words included 77 phonetic contrast pairs. The results showed that the percentage of errors in final position (coda) contrast was higher than in any other position in syllable. And the intelligibility deficit factors of phonetic contrast in the hearing-impaired were analyzed through stepwise regression analysis. The overall intelligibility was predicted by the error rate of manner contrast at coda, voicing contrast (homorganic triplets) at onset and high-low contrast at nucleus.

• 인지과학
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.35-41
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• 2004

한글단어가 음운경로를 통해 처리되는지 아닌지를 알아보고 단어재인의 어느 단계에서 음운 정보의 영향을 주로 받는지 알아보기 위하여, 1음절 단어를 사용하고 철자를 지연시키는 실험올 하였다. 두 개의 초점조건은 옴가가 있는 철자를 지연시키거나 묵음을 지연시키는 조건이었다. 실험 1에서는 음운정보가 단어재인 초기에 영향을 미치는지 또는 후기 과정에서 영향을 미치는지 알아 보기 위하여, 점화자극을 l50ms와 250ms로 제시한 명명과제를 실시하였다, 그 결과 150ms로 점화자극 을 제시하였을 때에는 음가조건파 정화자극제시여부간의 유의한 상호작용이 나타나 묵음조건에서는 점화자극 제시에 따라 목표자극이 촉진된 반면 유음조건에서는 점화자극 제시에 따른 효과가 없었다. '반면, 250ms로 정화자극이 제시되었을 때에는 유의한 상호작용효파가 나타나지 않았다. 실험 2에서는 어휘 판단과제를 통해 실험 1의 결과가 일반화되는지를 살펴보았다 그 결과, 실험l과 마찬가지로 150ms로 정화자극을 제시하였을 때에는 음가조건과 점화자극제시여부 간의 유의한 상호작용이 나타났으나, 점화자극을 250ms로 제시한 경우에는 유의한 상호작용이 나타나지 않았다. 이상의 결과는 한글단어가 음운경로를 통해 처리되고, 주로 단어재인과정의 초기 단계에서 음운정보가 개입함을 시사한다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.37-44
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• 2021

Preliminary findings are reported from five experiments testing the perceived naturalness of word tokens whose vowel durations are altered. The stimuli were minimal pairs of English words ending in a voiced/voiceless plosive. Results show an asymmetric effect of shortening and lengthening of the vowel on the perceived naturalness of the word. Incremental shortening of vowel duration initially shows a stable degree of perceived naturalness but rapidly deteriorates beyond a certain point. On the contrary, only a small degree of lengthening of the vowel made the perceived naturalness of the word quickly decay, but there was a floor effect such that the perceived degree of naturalness does not lower beyond a certain level. Further, the tokens with the original vowel duration were not always scored higher than the stimuli with a small degree of shortening. Future studies should address the issue of speaking rate and the ratio between the vowel and the stop closure duration to better understand the phenomenon. The issue investigated here has implications on the role of prototypical exemplars in the perception of phonotactic naturalness.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 1997년도 7월 학술대회지
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• pp.92-114
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• 1997

This study is aimed to grasp the actual problems of the perception of English rhythm and intonation structure by Korean University students who have studied English in the secondary schools for the past six years, and to establish the systems of English rhythm and intonation structure for the Korean students of English. For this study, the listening test is provided, and 100 students are chosen as the subjects of the study. The noticeable findings are summarized as follows: (1) Koreans perceive the words stress comparatively well in nonsense words, unfamiliar place names, and familiar word. (2) Koreans do not perceive the isochrony of English rhythm well enough. The perception of the sentence stress is very unstable, especially in the sentence involved in polysyllabic words, compound words, and 'emphatic stress' pr 'contrastive stress'(or in the different rhythmic patterns). (3) Koreans do not perceive the nucleus well enough. The perception of the nucleus is more stable in content words than in function words, at the end of a sentence than in the middle of a sentence, and in monosyllabic words than in the polysyllabic words. (4) Koreans do not perceive the boundary(or pause) of intonation group well enough. The perception of the pause is unstable in the long or complex sentence. (5) Koreans discriminate the meaning of English word stress comparatively well, especially in disyllabic words. But the discrimination is somewhat unstable in polysyllabic words and between 'adjective' and 'verb' (6) Koreans' discrimination of the intonation meaning is below the level. Koreans do not perceive the differences of intonation meaning according to the pitch accent or the focus. In conclusion, the writer will propose the procedures for the teaching of rhythm and intonation in the following order: word stress drill longrightarrowstressed and reduced syllables drilllongrightarrowrhythm group drilllongrightarrowthe varying rhythm drilllongrightarrowsentence stress drilllongrightarrownucleus drill longrightarrowintonation group drilllongrightarrowlong utterance drill of more than two intonation group.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.534-541
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• 2009

아동을 위한 단어인지도 검사 (word recognition test, WRT)는 아동의 의사소통장애정도를 진단하고, 보청기 사용을 위한 처방을 하고, 청각재활과 언어치료의 계획을 수립하고, 병변부위를 판단하는데 유용하게 사용될 수 있다. 한국표준 학령전기용 단음절어표 (Korean standard monosyllabic word lists for preschoolers, KS-MWL-P)는 문헌에서 주어진 기준을 고려하여 개발되었다. 그러나 KS-MWL-P의 저자들은 어표의 개발과정 중 단지 8명만 참여하여 분석된 심리음향 기능곡선을 검증하기 위하여 더 많은 대상을 포함한 연구를 제안하였다. 그러므로 본 연구의 목적은 KS-MWL-P 어표의 제한성을 보완하기 위하여 심리음향기능분석으로 어표의 동질성을 연구하고자 한다. 정상청력을 가진 23명의 학령전기아동을 대상으로 100개의 KS-MWL-P단어가 그림과 함께 제시되었다. -10에서 40 dB dBIH.까지 여러 강도에서 각 단어의 인지도 검사를 계산하여 20%와 80% 정답률 기준의 선형기울기로 심리음향기능곡선을 수집하고 분석하였다. 연구결과 강도에 따라 정답률이 증가하는 S자형 심리음향기능곡선이 나타났고 각 단어와 표간 통계적 유의성은 나타나지 않았다. 표간 유사한 그래프 형태를 통해 우수한 동질성을 보여주었고 표 1,2,3,4의 평균기울기는 4.48, 3.86, 4.65, 4.50 이었으며 일원 분산분석으로 분석할 때 표간 유의성이 없는 것 (p>0.05)으로 나타나서 표간 난이도의 동질성에 문제가 없는 것으로 확인되었다. 그리고 항목 번호의 순서에 따른 기울기의 P값도 표 1, 2, 3, 4에서 0.93, 0.59, 0.91, 0.70으로 모두 유의하지 않아 모든 표에서 $1{\sim}10$, $1{\sim}20$, $1{\sim}25$의 항목간 차이는 없는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 KS-MWL-P는 낮은 번호의 항목은 더 어린 연령을 위하여 쉬운 단어로 배치하고자 하였으나 본 연구결과는 그렇지 못한 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 점을 고려할 때 어린 연령대를 위한 쉬운 단어가 낮은 항목에 배치되도록 항목의 배치를 재조정하여야 할 것으로 사료된다. 이러한 점을 제외하면 결론적으로 KS-MWL-P는 학령전기를 위한 임상과 재활의 평가 및 훈련도구로 유용한 것으로 입증되었다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.99-108
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• 2013

Previous laboratory studies have shown that prosodic structures are encoded in the modulations of phonetic patterns of speech including suprasegmental as well as segmental features. In particular, effects of prosodic context on duration and intensity of syllables and words have been widely reported. Drawing on prosodically annotated large-scale speech data from the Buckeye corpus of conversational speech of American English, the current study attempted to examine whether and how prosodic prominence and phrase boundary of everyday conversational speech, as determined by a large group of ordinary listeners, are related to the phonetic realization of duration and intensity. The results showed that the patterns of word durations and intensities are influenced by prosodic structure. Closer examinations revealed, however, that the effects of prosodic prominence are not the same as those of prosodic phrase boundary. With regard to intensity measures, the results revealed the systematic changes in the patterns of overall RMS intensity near prosodic phrase boundary but the prominence effects are restricted to the nucleus. In terms of duration measures, both prosodic prominence and phrase boundary are the most closely related to the lengthening of the nucleus. Yet, prosodic prominence is more closely related to the lengthening of the onset while phrase boundary lengthens the coda duration more. The findings from the current study suggest that the phonetic realizations of prosodic prominence are different from those of prosodic phrase boundary, and speakers signal different prosodic structures through deliberate modulations of the internal phonetic structure of words and listeners attend to such phonetic variations.

• 음성과학
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.87-97
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• 2002

The purpose of this study is to analyze the speech duration in Korean-speaking aphasics. Five patients with nonfluent aphasia (2 with traumatic brain injury and 3 with strokes) and five normal adults participated in this experiment. The mean age in patients with nonfluent aphasia was $45.8\pm2.3$ years and $47.4\pm2.3$ years for the normal adults. The Computerized Speech Lab was used to evaluate the acoustic characteristics of the subjects. Voice onset time, vowel duration, total duration, hold and consonant duration were evaluated for the monosyllabic and the polysyllabic words. The patients with nonfluent aphasia did not show the voicing bar on hold area, however, it was seen in the normal persons in the intervocalic position. Explosion duration of glottalized stops in the intervocalic position was significantly prolonged in nonfluent aphasics in comparison with the normal persons. This suggestes that the laryngeal adjustment is disturbed in these patients. Consonant duration, vowel duration, and total duration of the polysyllabic words were significantly longer in the patients with nonfluent aphasia than those of the normal persons. These results demonstrate the disturbances in controlling articulatory muscles during sound production in patients with nonfluent aphasia. The objective and quantitative analysis based on the acoustic characteristics of nonfluent aphasics, will be very useful in therapeutic planning and on the the effects of speech therapy.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2002년도 11월 학술대회지
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• pp.64-69
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• 2002

This study concerns the constraints of English Poetic Meter. In English poems, the metrical pattern doesn't always match the linguistic stress on the lines. These mismatches are found differently among the poets. For the lexical stress mismatched with the weak metrical position, $*W{\Rightarrow}{\;}Strength$ is established by the concept of the strong syllable. The peaks of monosyllabic words mismatched with the weak metrical position are divided according to which side of the boundary of a phonological domain they are adjacent to. Adjacency Constraint I is suggested for the mismatched peak which is adjacent to the left boundary of a phonological domain; *Peak] and Adjacency ConstraintII for the mismatched peak which are adjacent to the right boundary of a phonological domain. These constraints are various according to the poets(Pope, Milton and Shakespeare) : *[Peak [-stress], $W{\Rightarrow}{\;}*Strength$ and *Peak] in Pope; *[+stress][Peak [-stress] and *Peak] in Milton ; *[+stress][Peak [-stress], $W{\;}{\Rightarrow}{\;}*Strength$ and ACII in Shakespeare.

• 음성과학
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.173-184
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• 2002

The question of Korean rhythmic type is still a controversial issue (syllable-timed; stress-timed; word-timed). As a step toward solving the question, an experiment was carried out to examine compression effects in Korean. There has been a general belief that the increase of the number of following or preceding syllables causes compression of a vowel (or syllable) in many languages, and a marked anticipatory compression effect can be especially indicative of stress timing. The purpose of this research, therefore, was to obtain some evidence to determine whether or not Korean is stress-timed. The durations of the target vowel/a/ of the monosyllabic word /pap/ were measured at both word and sentence level. In general, marked anticipatory and backward compression effects on the target vowel were observed across one-, two- and three-syllable words in citation form, whereas the effects were neither marked nor consistent at sentence level. These results led us to claim that Korean is not stress-timed.