• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.53-66
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• 2018

This study investigated the development of English phonological awareness in preschool children based on a longitudinal study. It carried out a phonological matching task, mispronunciation task, articulation test, explicit phoneme awareness task, rhyme matching task, and initial-phoneme matching task for three-, four- and five-year-old children. A letter knowledge test was also added to the tests for the 5-year-old children. The results revealed that the development of phonological awareness follows a progression of syllable, then onset and rhyme, then phoneme. It was also revealed that language skills such as vocabulary, detection of mispronunciations, and articulation were partially related to the development of phoneme awareness. Finally, we also found that letter knowledge partially affected the children's development of phonological awareness.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.535-546
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• 2016

철자지식과 음운인식이 시각적 단어 해독과 부호화에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위하여, 5세에서 8세의 아동 각 15명씩 총 60명을 대상으로 철자지식(자모지식, 소리-글자 대응지식, 철자표상), 음운인식(단어인식, 음절인식, 음소인식), 시각적 단어 해독(자소-음소 일치 단어 읽기, 불일치 단어 읽기), 시각적 단어 부호화(자소-음소 일치 단어 받아쓰기, 불일치 단어 받아쓰기) 과제를 실시하였다. 그 결과 철자지식, 음운인식, 시각적 단어 해독, 시각적 단어 부호화의 모든 과제에서 연령 집단 간 수행력 차이가 유의하였고, 각 과제 수행력 간 유의한 정적 상관관계가 있었다. 이 중 불일치 단어 철자표상, 음절인식, 음소인식이 본 연구 대상자들을 연령에 따라 보다 민감하게 구분하는 것으로 나타났다. 시각적 단어 해독과 부호화 능력을 예측하는 변인으로 음운인식보다는 자모지식과 철자표상과 같은 철자지식 능력이 포함되었다. 본 연구결과는 학령기 전후 철자에 보다 익숙해지면 음운인식보다 철자지식이 시각적 단어 해독과 부호화에 더 많은 영향을 미친다는 것을 시사한다.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2007년도 한국음성과학회 공동학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.288-291
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• 2007

The aim of this study is to clarify degrees of difficulty of the Japanese L2 (second language) learners for learning Korean sounds and phonological rules. 31 subjects took a questionnaire survey and an identification test using words. In addition, each subject's pronunciation was evaluated by 3 Korean native speakers. As for Korean sounds, the results show that Japanese L2 learners have a tendency perceiving that listening is more difficult than pronouncing, although the listening test's scores were greater than the pronunciation test's scores for a majority of the items. As for Korean phonological rules, 1) there were some difficult items for applying the phonological rules, although Japanese L2 learners had knowledge of them, and 2) there were also some items that Korean native speakers evaluated Japanese L2 learners' pronunciations as the phonological rules were applied, even though learners pronounced them without any knowledge.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.139-149
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• 2015

This paper aims to analyze pronunciation variations of loanwords produced by Korean and improve the performance of pronunciation modeling of loanwords in Korean by using syllable-based segmentation and phonological knowledge. The loanword text corpus used for our experiment consists of 14.5k words extracted from the frequently used words in set-top box, music, and point-of-interest (POI) domains. At first, pronunciations of loanwords in Korean are obtained by manual transcriptions, which are used as target pronunciations. The target pronunciations are compared with the standard pronunciation using confusion matrices for analysis of pronunciation variation patterns of loanwords. Based on the confusion matrices, three salient pronunciation variations of loanwords are identified such as tensification of fricative [s] and derounding of rounded vowel [ɥi] and [$w{\varepsilon}$]. In addition, a syllable-based segmentation method considering phonological knowledge is proposed for loanword pronunciation modeling. Performance of the baseline and the proposed method is measured using phone error rate (PER)/word error rate (WER) and F-score at various context spans. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the baseline. We also observe that performance degrades when training and test sets come from different domains, which implies that loanword pronunciations are influenced by data domains. It is noteworthy that pronunciation modeling for loanwords is enhanced by reflecting phonological knowledge. The loanword pronunciation modeling in Korean proposed in this paper can be used for automatic speech recognition of application interface such as navigation systems and set-top boxes and for computer-assisted pronunciation training for Korean learners of English.

• 음성과학
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.155-167
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• 2006

Hearing impairment children possess poor underlying perceptual knowledge of the sound system and show delayed development of segmental organization of that system. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between phonological awareness ability and word identification ability in hearing impaired children. 14 children with moderately severe hearing loss participated in this study. All tasks were individually administered. Phonological awareness tests consisted of syllable blending, syllable segmentation, syllable deletion, body-coda discrimination, phoneme blending, phoneme segmentation and phoneme deletion. Close-set Monosyllabic Words(12 items) and lists 1 and 2 of open-set Monosyllabic Words in EARS-K were examined for word identification. Results of this study were as follows: First, from the phonological awareness task, the close-set word identification showed a high positive correlation with the coda discrimination, phoneme blending and phoneme deletion. The open-set word identification showed a high positive correlation with phoneme blending, phoneme deletion and phoneme segmentation. Second, from the level of phonological awareness, the close-set word identification showed a high positive correlation with the level of body-coda awareness and phoneme awareness while the open-set word identification showed a high positive correlation only with the level of phoneme awareness.

• 인지과학
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.111-132
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• 2013

노화에 따라 언어 기능은 다르게 변화한다. 의미 처리에서는 청년과 노인의 수행이 유사하지만 언어산출에서는 노인이 청년에 비해 기능이 감퇴한다고 보고되어 왔다. 설단현상은 음운 정보 산출에서의 실패를 잘 드러내주는 현상이다. 노인은 청년에 비해 설단현상을 더 빈번하게 보고하는데, 이에 대한 설명으로 차단 가설과 전달손실 가설이 제안되었다. 본 연구는 설단현상을 유도하는 질문을 사용하여 음운 정보 산출에서 노화의 영향을 살펴보았다. 실험에서 두 변인이 조작되었다. 첫 번째 변인은 연령조건으로, 참가자는 청년과 노인 집단으로 구성되었다. 두 번째 변인은 단어범주 조건으로, 자극은 총 5가지의 단어 범주로 구성되었다. 참가자는 표적단어에 대한 설명을 듣고 '안다', '모른다', '설단현상'의 세 가지 상태를 보고하였다. 실험 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 청년에 비해 노인에게서 설단현상이 증가하였다. 둘째, 단어범주에 따른 설단현상의 차이가 있었다. 설단현상은 인물 이름, 장소 이름과 같은 고유명사에서 더 자주 발생하였다. 셋째, 설단현상이 더 자주 발생하는 단어범주에서 연령 차이는 더 크게 나타났다. 넷째, 설단현상을 겪는 동안 대안단어의 보고는 청년에 비해 노인이 적었다. 다섯째, 설단현상을 겪는 동안 표적단어에 대한 부분 정보는 글자 단위로 유지되는 경향을 보였다. 본 결과는 한국어 음운 산출에서 노화의 영향을 확인하고, 그 기제에 대해 전달손실가설의 설명을 지지한다. 또한, 한국어의 음운 및 표기 특성이 설단현상 동안의 정보처리과정에 반영되고 있음을 시사한다.

• 인지과학
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.125-146
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• 2015

본 연구는 초등학교 5학년 학생들을 대상으로 한국어 음운인식이 영어 음운인식에 기여하는지의 여부와, 한국어와 영어의 음운인식이 한글과 영어 읽기 및 쓰기와 관련이 되는지를 살펴보았다. 그 결과, 어휘력과 연령을 통제한 후에 한국어 음운인식은 영어 음운인식의 변량을 유의하게 설명하였다. 구체적으로 한국어 음절과 음소인식은 영어 음절인식을 예측하였고, 한국어 음소인식은 영어 음소인식을 예측하였다. 연령과 어휘력을 통제한 후에 영어 음소인식은 영어와 한글의 읽기와 받아쓰기의 변량을 유의하게 설명하였다. 또한 한국어 음절인식이 한글읽기를 설명하였으며, 영어 음절인식은 한글 받아쓰기를 설명하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 음운인식은 상위언어적 기술(metalinguistic skill)로 한국어에서 영어로 언어 간 전이되는 것을 시사한다. 또한 음소인식이 영어의 읽기와 쓰기에 중요하지만, 음소와 음절인식이 한글의 읽기와 쓰기에 중요한 것을 시사한다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.51-60
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• 2018

This study aims to compare the word decoding skills, phonological awareness (PA), rapid automatized naming (RAN) skills, and letter knowledge of first graders with developmental dyslexia (DD) and those who were typically developing (TD). Eighteen children with DD and eighteen TD children, matched by nonverbal intelligence and discourse ability, participated in the study. Word decoding of Korean language-based reading assessment(Pae et al., 2015) was conducted. Phoneme-grapheme correspondent words were analyzed according to whether the word has meaning, whether the syllable has a final consonant, and the position of the grapheme in the syllable. Letter knowledge asked about the names and sounds of 12 consonants and 6 vowels. The children's PA of word, syllable, body-coda, and phoneme blending was tested. Object and letter RAN was measured in seconds. The decoding difficulty of non-words was more noticeable in the DD group than in the TD one. The TD children read the syllable initial and syllable final position with 99% correctness. Children with DD read with 80% and 82% correctness, respectively. In addition, the DD group had more difficulty in decoding words with two patchims when compared with the TD one. The DD group read only 57% of words with two patchims correctly, while the TD one read 91% correctly. There were significant differences in body-coda PA, phoneme level PA, letter RAN, object RAN, and letter-sound knowledge between the two groups. This study confirms the existence of Korean developmental dyslexics, and the urgent need for the inclusion of a Korean-specific phonics approach in the education system.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.31-44
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• 1994

본 논문은 국어 음성 인식 및 합성을 위한 음운$\cdot$음성학적인 기초 연구 몇가지를 포괄적으로 소개하고자 한다. 그 구체적인 내용은 첫째, 분절음의 음운론적 특성연구로서, 분절음의 변이 목록및 컴퓨터 입력 기호의 작성, 둘째, 분절음의 음성학적 특성 연구로서, 단어내 자음의 위치에 따라 음향 파라메타를 조정하는 시범안 제시, 세째, 운율의 음운론적 특성 연구로서 운율 자질들의 음운론적 기능과 인식 단서의 제시, 네째, 운율의 음성학적 특성 연구로서 표준 한국어의 악센트와 억양 패턴의 제시, 다섯째, 음성 인식 및 합성에의 국어 음성$\cdot$음운 지식의 활용 방안 제시이다.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.41-54
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to investigate predictors concerning preschoolers' ability to read words, in terms of their sub-skills of alphabet knowledge, phonological awareness, and phonological processing. Fourteen literacy sub-tests and three types of reading tasks were administered to 289 kindergartners aged 4 to 6 in Busan. The main results are as follows. Sub-skills that predicted reading ability varied with children's age. Irrespective of children's age groups, knowledge of consonant names and digit naming speed commonly explained the reading of real words. In contrast, skills of syllable deletion and phoneme substitution and knowledge of alphabet composition principles were related to only 4-year-olds' reading skills. Exclusively included was digit memory in predicting 5-year-olds' reading abilities, and knowledge of vowel sounds in 6-year-olds' reading skills. The type of reading task also influenced reading ability. A few common variables such as knowledge of consonant names and vowel sounds, digit naming speed, and phoneme substitution skill explained all types of word reading. Syllable counting skills, however, had predictive value only for the reading of real words. Phoneme insertion skills and digit memory had predictive value for the reading of pseudo words and low frequency letters. Likewise, knowledge of consonant sounds and vowel stroke-adding principles were significant only for the reading of low frequency letters.