• 음성과학
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.133-145
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• 2006

In order to understand the various groups' perceptual pattern in both VCV trochee and iambus, this study examined the identification correctness and cue robustness for the unit intervals in light of background language, age, and English listening ability. The 4 groups of Native Speakers of English, Korean College Students of High Listening Achievement, Korean College Students of Low Listening Achievement, and Korean Elementary Students took part in the experiments. Tokens of $/d{\ae}per,\;d{\ae}per,\;d{\ae}per,\;d{\ae}per,\;d{\ae}per,\;d{\ae}per$ in trochee and of $/{\eth}{\partial}\;p{\ae}d,\;{\eth}{\partial}\;b{\ae}d,\;{\eth}{\partial}\;t{\ae}d,\;{\eth}{\partial}\;d{\ae}d,\;{\eth}{\partial}\;k{\ae}d,\;{\eth}{\partial}\;g{\ae}d/$ in iambus were extracted and modified into experimental signals composed of two digits(voiced-1, voiceless-0) by following the temporal intervals, in which the signals consisted of preceding vowel, closure, VOT, and post-vowel. In the first experiment of identification correctness in VCV iambus environment, all groups showed almost 100% correctness rate, while in trochee environment all groups were different(native speaker 87%, college high 74%, college low 70%, elementary 65%). In the second experiment of cue robustness, all groups showed the similar perceptual pattern in both environments. There was the order of robustness cues in VCV trochee: pre-vowel ${\gg}$ closure ${\gg}$ VOT ${\gg}$ post-vowel, while the order in VCV iambus: VOT ${\gg}$ post-vowel ${\gg}$ closure ${\gg}$ pre-vowel. In some condition, however, we found moderately different perceptual pattern depending on language, age and listening level.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제56호
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• pp.49-73
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• 2005

This study explores the most important temporal cues in the perception of the voiced/voiceless distinction of English plosives in terms of newly defined measures of perception: original signal to response agreement, unit signal to response agreement, and robustness. Seven native speakers of English and three leveled groups of Korean English learners participated in the present study. The results showed that both native speakers of English and Korean groups failed to successfully perceive the voiced/voiceless distinction of English plosives, particularly alveolar plosives, in word-medial trochaic positions. The results also showed that in word-initial and word-medial iambic positions both native speakers of English and Korean groups employ the information in the release burst and aspiration in the perception of the voiced/voiceless distinction, of English plosives, and that in word-final positions native speakers of English employ the information in the preceding vowel, while Korean groups employ the information in the closure interval.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.65-87
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• 2019

Most studies on how people perceive a given quantity of items were conducted with visual cues exclusively and only offered spatial area based explanations, such as spatial estimation and perceptual grouping theories. This article establishes how people perceive a given quantity when only a written description is provided without any visual cues. Across two studies we show that variety decreases perceived quantity when a variety cue is given, while variety increases perceived quantity when a visual cue is not given. This is because people tend to rely heavily on spatial areas when a visual cue is present and because people are prone to confirmation bias when they are provided with no visual cues but only written descriptions. Furthermore, we highlight that quantity perception has a mediation effect on consumers' attitude-the intention to participate in sales promotional events. Lastly, we summarize the article and discuss its contributions, implications, limitations, and suggestions for future research.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2018

This study examined the acoustic characteristics of Korean alveolar fricatives of normal children. Developing children aged 3 and 7, typically produced 2 types of nonsense syllables containing alveolar fricative /sV/ and /VsV/ sequences where V was any one of three corner vowels (/i, a, and u/). Stimuli containing the speech materials used in a production experiment were presented randomly to 12 speech language pathologists (SLPs) for a perception test. The SLPs responded by selecting one of seven alternative sounds. Acoustic measures such as duration of frication noise, normalized intensity, skewness, and center of gravity were examined. There was significant difference in acoustic measures when comparing vowels. Comparison of syllable structures indicated statistically significant differences in duration of frication noise and normalized intensity. Acoustic parameters could account for the perceptual data. Relating the acoustic and perception data by means of logistic regression suggests that duration of frication noise and normalized intensity are the primary cues to perceiving Korean fricatives.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 1996년도 10월 학술대회지
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• pp.399-403
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• 1996

This paper addresses issues of perceptual constancy in speech perception through the use of a spatial metaphor for speech sound identity as opposed to a more conventional characterisation with multiple interacting acoustic cues. This spatial representation leads to a correlation between phonetic, acoustic and auditory analyses of speech sounds which can serve as the basis for a model of speech perception based on the general auditory characteristics of sounds. The correlations between the phonetic, perceptual and auditory spaces of the set of English voiceless fricatives /f $\theta$ s $\int$ h / are investigated. The results show that the perception of fricative segments may be explained in terms of 2-dimensional auditory space in which each segment occupies a region. The dimensions of the space were found to be the frequency of the main spectral peak and the 'peakiness' of spectra. These results support the view that perception of a segment is based on its occupancy of a multi-dimensional parameter space. In this way, final perceptual decisions on segments can be postponed until higher level constraints can also be met.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.810-820
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• 2014

Recently many studies of Radar systems mounted on ground vehicles for autonomous driving, SLAM (Simultaneous localization and mapping) and collision avoidance are reported. In near field, several hits per an object are generated after signal processing of Radar data. Hence, clustering is an essential technique to estimate their shapes and positions precisely. This paper proposes a method of grouping hits in range-doppler domains into clusters which represent each object, according to the pre-defined rules. The rules are based on the perceptual cues to separate hits by object. The morphological connectedness between hits and the characteristics of SNR distribution of hits are adopted as the perceptual cues for clustering. In various simulations for the performance assessment, the proposed method yielded more effective performance than other techniques.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2020

서울말의 ᅩ/ᅮ가 모음 공간에서 융합하는 변화가 진행되고 있는 것이 많은 연구들에 의해 지적되어 왔다. 한편 ᅩ/ᅮ의 중복이 현저한 여성의 발화에서는 포먼트 대신 모음의 음질 (H1-H2)이 ᅩ/ᅮ를 구별하고 있는 것이 확인되었다. 본 고의 목적은 생성에 보이는 ᅩ/ᅮ 간의 H1-H2 차이가 지각에서도 유효한지를 확인하는 것이다. 지각에서도 H1-H2가 유효하게 기능하고 있다면 포먼트만으로는 설명이 어려운 여성의 ᅩ/ᅮ를 생성과 지각 모두에서 H1-H2로 정연하게 설명할 수 있을 것이다. 서울, 경기 출신의 대학생 35명을 대상으로 서울말 모어 화자가 단독발화한 ' 오'와 '우'를 사용하여 지각실험을 실시하였다. 자극음은 모두 여성의 발화로 모음 공간에서 상당한 중복을 보이는 182예이다. 생성과 지각의 관계를 보기 위해 자극음의 음향분석도 실시하였다. 정답률(바르게 지각한 동정률)은 평균 89%로 /ᅩ/가 86% (n=88), /ᅮ/가 91% (n=94)였다. 자극음의 음향분석에서 포먼트로 구별이 어려운 ᅩ/ᅮ의 경우 H1-H2가 유의하게 작용하고 있는 것이 확인되었다. 그러나 ᅩ/ᅮ의 지각에 H1-H2의 영향력은 매우 미미하며 ᅩ/ᅮ의 구별에는 남녀 모두 포먼트가 결정적인 역할을 하는 것으로 나타났다. 생성에서 H1-H2로 ᅩ/ᅮ를 구별하는 것은 여성의 발화로, 남성의 발화에서는 H1-H2가 아닌 포먼트로 구별된다. 남성의 발화에서도 H1-H2 차이가 ᅩ/ᅮ의 구별에 쓰인다면 지각에 있어서도 H1-H2가 주된 지각특성이 될 수도 있겠지만 적어도 현 단계에서 ᅩ/ᅮ의 지각에 H1-H2의 사용은 남녀 모두 아직 도입되지 않은 것으로 보인다.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제24권
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• pp.112-119
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• 2011

This study presents experiments which examined the role of amplitude and fundamental frequency (f0) in the phonetic perception of short versus long stop length contrasts in Japanese (e.g., [t] vs. [tt]). Stop length contrasts are normally characterized by differences in the duration of stop closures. However, closure duration can be unreliable as a perceptual cue when one considers variability in the rate at which people speak. Acoustically, the amplitude and f0 of the vowel following stop consonants are known to covary with the length distinction of stops in Japanese. Given this fact, the current study examined amplitude and f0 as potential secondary cues to the distinction. The results indicate that even though both amplitude and f0 are robust correlates, Japanese listeners do not use these cues in categorizing short versus long stops.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2023

이 연구는 베트남인 성인 학습자들이 학습 단계별로 한국어 어두 초성 장애음을 어떻게 지각하는지 밝히고, 지각 훈련을 통해 오류가 교정될 수 있는지를 밝히는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위해 베트남인 초급, 중급, 고급 학습자 105명을 대상으로 한국어 초성 장애음에 대한 지각 훈련을 실시하였다. 훈련 자료는 원어민 음성으로 녹음한 자연 자극으로 한국어의 최소대립쌍을 적극적으로 활용하여 제작하였다. 실험 집단에 속한 학습자들은 약 2주간에 걸쳐 20-40분의 자기주도적 지각 훈련을 5회 수행했고, 통제 집단에 속한 학습자들은 사전 테스트와 사후 테스트에만 참여하였다. 실험 결과 훈련 전에 잘 구분되지 않았던 음들에 대한 지각이 많이 개선되었고, 초급뿐만 아니라 고급 집단의 학습자들도 끝까지 교정이 잘 되지 않았던 음에 대한 효과를 보았다. 이 연구에서는 대규모의 지각 훈련을 통해 베트남인 학습자들이 한국어의 서로 다른 음을 구별하는 적절한 음향 단서를 학습하는 데 지각 훈련이 중요한 역할을 할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 대한물리의학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.281-287
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• 2013

PURPOSE: The study was designed to investigate the effects of visual, auditory, and visuoauditory cues on simple Serial Task Performance in heaithy adults. METHODS: Sixty-three right-handed heaithy adults without history of neurological dysfunction were participated. A modified version of the Serial Reaction Time Task (SRTT) using five blocks of perceptual motor sequences was administered. The blocked paradigm consisted of the five blocks with randomly repeated 8 digit sequences with 5 repetition. Three types of sensory cue were employed: visual cue, auditory cue and visuoauditory cue. All subjects were assigned to press the matched botton as quickly and accurately as possible, when one of 8 stimulations was presented(one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight). The reaction time, accuracy, and P300 latency were measured during serial task performance. The mean reaction time(ms), accuracy(%), and P300 latency(ms) were compared between three types of cue using ANOVA. RESULTS: The reaction time to auditory cue was significantly longer than visual and visuoauditory cues(p<.001). And accuracy to auditory cue was significantly lower than visual and visuoauditory cues(p<.001). All P300 latency(at Fz, Cz, Pz) were significantly longer than to visual and visuoauditory cues(p<.05). CONCLUSION: It is suggested that type of cues influence in choice reaction. These data may helpful in designing not only effective motor learning training programs for healthy persons but also reeducation programs for patients with neurological dysfunction.