• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.3819-3828
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 중의어 중 한 가지 유형인 한국어 동철이음어의 처리 과정의 탐색을 통해 단어를 이해하는 과정에서 논쟁이 되고 있는 형태(표기 및 음운) 정보와 의미 정보의 영향을 알아보았다. 이를 위해 선행 자극이 먼저 제시되고 목표 자극이 이후에 제시되는 점화 과제를 사용하여 형태와 의미 정보의 촉진 효과를 확인해 보았다. 실험 1에서는 동철이음어의 표기 및 음운 정보와 관련된 자극을 점화 자극으로 제시하였고 실험 2에서는 의미와 관련된 자극을 점화 자극으로 제시하여 단어/비단어 여부를 판단하는 어휘판단과제를 실시하였다. 그 결과 형태 관련 정보는 유의미한 영향을 주지 않았으나 의미 관련 정보는 단어 여부 판단을 빠르게 하는 촉진 효과를 보여 주었다. 이러한 결과는 동철이음어 처리 과정에서 형태 관련 정보에 비해 의미 관련 정보의 영향이 중요하게 작용하고 있음을 시사한다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.272-277
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• 2008

Functional MRI technique was used in this study for examining the language switching mechanisms between the first language (L1) and the second language (L2). Language switching mechanism is regarded as a complex task that involves an interaction between L1 and L2. The aim of study is to find out the brain activation patterns during the phonological process of reading real English words and English words written in Korean characters in a bilingual person. Korean-English bilingual subjects were examined while they covertly read four types of words native Korean words, Korean words of a foreign origin, English words written in Korean characters, and English words. The fMRI results reveal that the left hemispheric language-related regions at the brain, such as the left inferior frontal, superior temporal, and parietal cortices, have a greater response to the presentation of English words written in Korean characters than for the other types of words, in addition, a slight difference was observed in the occipital-temporal lobe. These results suggest that a change in the brain circuitry underlying the relational processes of language switching is mainly associated with general executive processing system in the left prefrontal cortex rather than with a similarity-based processing system in the occipital-temporal lobes.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.103-111
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• 2013

Traditionally it has been assumed that written abilities are completely dependent on phonology. Therefore spoken and written language skills in aphasic patients have been known to exhibit similar types of impairment. However, a number of latest studies have reported the findings that support the orthographic autonomy hypothesis. The purpose of this study was to examine whether fluent aphasic patients have discrepancy between speaking and writing skills, thereby identifying whether the two skills are realized through independent processes. To this end, this study compared the K-FAST speaking and writing tasks of 30 aphasia patients. In addition, 16 aphasia patients, who were capable of producing sentences not only in speaking but also in writing, were compared in their performances at each phase of the sentence production process. As a result, the subjects exhibited different performances between speaking and writing, along with statistically significant differences between the two language skills at positional and phonological encoding phases of the sentence production process. Therefore, the study's results suggest that written language is more likely to be produced via independent routes without the mediation of the process of spoken language production, beginning from a certain phase of the sentence production process.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.15-23
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• 2020

This study examines the duration of Korean lax and tense stops in the prosodic word-medial position, their interactions with nearby segments, and the phonological implications of these interactions. It first examines the lengthening of consonants at the function of the short lax stop. Experiment 1 shows that the sonorant C1 is significantly longer before a short lax stop C2 than before a long tense stop. Experiment 2 shows that the short lax stop C1 cancels the contrast between the lax and tense obstruent at C2, making them appear as long tense obstruents (Post-Stop Tensing Rule). We suggest that such lengthening phenomena occur in Korean to robustly preserve the contrastive length difference between C and CC. Second, this study examines the vowel shortening, known as Closed-Syllable Vowel Shortening, before a long tense stop or before the consonant sequence. Experiment 3 suggests that it be interpreted as temporal adjustment to make the interval from the onset of a vowel to the onset of the following vowel of near-equal length. Conclusively, we suggest that Korean speech be planned and controlled with two specific intervals. One is the duration of contrastive consonant intervals between vowels, and the other is the duration from the onset of a vowel to the onset of the following vowel.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2006년도 추계학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.99-108
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• 2006

Three experiments were conducted to determine the exact locus of the frequency effect in speech production. In Experiment 1. a picture naming task was used to replicate whether the word frequency effect is due to the processes involved in lexical access or not. The robust word frequency effect of 31ms was obtained. The question to be addressed in Experiment 2 is whether the word frequency effect is originated from the level where a lemma is selected. To the end, using a picture-word interference task, the significance of interactions between the effects of target frequency, distractor frequency and semantic relatedness were tested. Interaction between the distractor frequency and semantic relatedness variables was significant. And interaction between the target and distractor frequency variables showed a significant tendency. In addition, the results of Experiment 2 suggest that the mechanism underlying the word frequency effect is encoded as different resting activation level of lemmas. Experiment 3 explored whether the word frequency effect is attributed to the lexeme level where phonological information of words is represented or not. A methodological logic applied to Experiment 3 was the same as to Experiment 2. Any interaction was not significant. In conclusion, the present study obtained the evidence supporting two assumptions: (a) the locus of the word frequency effect exists in the processes involved in lemma selection, (b) the mechanism for the word frequency effect is encoded as different resting activation level of lemmas. In order to explain the word frequency effect obtained in this study, the core assumptions of current production models need to be modified.

• 인지과학
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.559-602
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• 2010

본 연구는 정보처리 관점에서 기억과 주의와의 비교를 통하여 의식의 개념과 기능적 특성을 탐색해 보고, 의식과 기억과 주의의 관계에 기반한 정보처리와 작업기억의 특성에 대한 대안적 관점을 제시하고자 하였다. 인간의 심적 활동을 설명하기 위해서는 어떤 개념들이 설명에 사용될 만큼 충분히 잘 이해되고 있는지에 대한 합의가 필요하기 때문에 공통적으로 이해되는 기초개념이 무엇인지를 알아내는 것은 중요하다. 기억과 주의와의 비교를 통해 정보처리 관점에서 의식은 주변 환경과 자극에 대한 그리고 이를 처리하는 정보처리과정에 대해 자각하고, 필요한 행동을 결정내리고 수많은 정보들을 통합하고 통제할 수 있는 작동시스템의 특성을 가진다. 의식은 정보의 부호화와 저장, 인출이란 특성을 가진 기억, 그리고 정보의 선택과 분할이란 특성을 가진 주의와 개념적으로 기능적으로 구분되는 심적 구성체 일 수 있다. 이러한 경우 작업기억은 다양한 구성요소로 이루어진 하나의 시스템이라기 보다는 의식과 기억과 주의가 함께 혹은 독립적으로 작동하는 정보처리의 작업장일 수 있다. 또한 의식과 기억과 주의란 심적구성체가 함께 혹은 독립적으로 작동하는 심적구조에서 정보처리는 의식적인 처리과정과 무의식적인 처리과정의 연속선상에서 위계 병렬적으로 일어날 수 있다.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제38호
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• pp.41-70
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• 1999

Researches on perception have, in recent years, been increasingly popular as a means of accounting for cross-linguistic sound patterns (Ohala, 1992; Hemming, 1995; Jun, 1995; Steriade, 1997 among others). In loanword phonology, Silverman(1990, 1992) argues that words from a source language are scanned through the perceptual level and that the features perceived by a speaker are stored in the input to be processed according to his/her native language's phonological constraints. The purpose of this paper is to test the validity of Silverman's proposal by examining the correlation between perception and production of Korean learners of English. We specifically focussed on perception and production of stop release by contrasting English loanwords with English words loarned through education to see if there were any significant differences. The results showed that there was no substantive correlation between the Korean speakers' perception of the loanwords pronounced by English speakers and their own production of those words. In the case of English words, however, the Korean speakers' production was closely related with their perception, although some inter-speaker variations were observed. With Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolenksy, 1993) as a theoretical framework of analysis, it was shown that the theory is a useful means of implementing a phonetics-phonology interface and relating perceptual processes with speech production. Specifically, under the assumption that loanwords with [t]~[t/sup h/] alternation (e.g.,'cut') are originally borrowed into Korean as two different input forms, all the alternations could be straightforwardly accounted for in terms of a unified ranking of constraints.

• 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.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.109-121
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• 2013

This study examined several kinematic properties of the primary articulator (the tongue dorsum) and the supplementary articulator (the jaw) in the articulation of the voiceless velar stop (/k/) within nonassimilating contexts. We examined in particular the spatiotemporal properties (constriction duration and constriction maxima) from the constriction onset to the constriction offset by analyzing a velar (/k/) followed by the coronal fricative (/s/), the coronal stop (/t/), and the labial (/p/) in across-word boundary conditions (/k#s/, /k#t/, and /k#p/). Along with these measurements, we investigated intergestural temporal coordination between C1 and C2 and the jaw articulator in relation to its coordination with the articulation of consonant sequences. The articulatory movement data was collected by means of electromagnetic midsagittal articulometry (EMMA). Four native speakers of Seoul Korean participated in the laboratory experiment. The results showed several characteristics. First, a velar (/k/) in C1 was not categorically reduced. Constriction duration and constriction degree of the velar (/k/) were similar within nonassimilating contexts (/k#s/=/k#t/=/k#p/). This might mean that spatiotemporal attributes during constriction duration were stable and consistent across different contexts, which might be subsequently associated with the nontarget status of the velar in place assimilation. Second, the gestural overlap could be represented as the order of /k#s/ (less) < /k#p/ (intermediate) < /k#t/ (more) as we measured the onset-to-onset lag (a longer lag indicated shorter gestural overlap.). This indicates a gestural overlap within nonassimilating contexts may not be constrained by any of the several constraints including the perceptual recoverability constraint (e.g., more overlap in Front-to-Back sequences compared to the reverse order (Back-to-Front) since perceptual cues in C1 can be recovered anytime during C2 articulation), the low-level speech motor constraint (e.g., more overlap in lingual-nonlingual sequences as compared to the lingual-lingual sequences), or phonological contexts effects (e.g., similarity in gestural overlap within nonassimilating contexts). As one possible account for more overlap in /k#t/ sequences as compared to /k#p/, we suspect speakers' knowledge may be receptive to extreme encroachment on C1 by the gestural overlap of the coronal in C2 since it does not obscure the perceptual cue of C1 as much as the labial in C2. Third, actual jaw position during C2 was higher in coronals (/s/, /t/) than in the labial (/p/). However, within the coronals, there was no manner-dependent jaw height difference in C2 (/s/=/t/). Vertical jaw position of C1 and C2 was seen as inter-dependent as higher jaw position in C1 was closely associated with C2. Lastly, a greater gap in jaw height was associated with longer intergestural timing (e.g., less overlap), but was confined to the cluster type (/kp/) with the lingual-nonlingual sequence. This study showed that Korean jaw articulation was independent from coordinating primary articulators in gestural overlap in some cluster types (/k#s/, /k#t/) while not in others (e.g., /k#p/). Overall, the results coherently indicate the velar stop (/k/) in C1 was robust in articulation, which may have subsequently contributed to the nontarget status of the velar (/k/) in place assimilation processes.