• 비교문화연구
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• 제28권
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• pp.115-139
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• 2012

Interval or duration of segments, syllables, words and phrases is an important acoustic feature which influences the naturalness of speech. A number of cross-sectional studies regarding acoustic characteristics of children's speech development found that intervals of segments, syllables, words and phrases tend to change with the growing age. One hypothesis assumed that decreases in intervals would be greater when children were younger and smaller decreases in intervals when older (Thelen,1991), it has been supported by quite a number of researches on the basis of cross-sectional studies (Tingley & Allen,1975; Kent & Forner,1980; Chermak & Schneiderman, 1986), but the other hypothesis predicted that decreases in intervals would be smaller when children were younger and greater decreases in intervals when older (Smith, Kenney & Hussain, 1996). Researchers seem to come up with conflicting postulations and inconsistent results about the change trends concerning intervals of segments, syllables, words and phrases, leaving it as an issue unresolved. Most acoustic investigations of children's speech production have been conducted via cross-sectional designs, which involves studying several groups of children. So far, there are only a few longitudinal studies. This issue needs more longitudinal investigations; moreover, the acoustic measures of the intervals of child speech are hardly available. All former studies focus on word stages excluding the babbling stages especially the canonical babbling stage, but we need to find out when concrete changes of intervals begin to occur and what causes the changes. Therefore, we conducted an acoustic study of interval characteristics of segments and words concerning Canonical Babble ( CB) and early speech in an infant aged from 0;9 to 2;4 acquiring Mandarin Chinese. The current research addresses the following two questions: 1. Whether decreases in interval would be greater when children were younger and smaller when they were older or vice versa? 2. Whether the child speech concerning the acoustic features of interval drifts in the direction of the language they are exposed to? The female infant whose L1 was Southern Mandarin living in Changsha was audio- and video-taped at her home for about one hour almost on a weekly basis during her age range from 0;9 to 2;4 under natural observation by us investigators. The recordings were digitized. Parts of the digitized material were labeled. All the repetitions were excluded. The utterances were extracted from 44 sessions ranging from 30 minutes to one hour. The utterances were divided into segments as well as syllable-sized units. Age stages are 0;9-1;0,1;1-1;5, 1;6-2;0, 2;1-2;4. The subject was a monolingual normal child from parents with a good education. The infant was audio-and video-taped in her home almost every week. The data were digitized, segments and syllables from 44 sessions spanning the transition from babble to speech were transcribed in narrow IPA and coded for analysis. Babble was coded from age 0;9-1;0, and words were coded from 1;0 to 2;4, the data has been checked by two professionally trained persons who majored in phonetics. The present investigation is a longitudinal analysis of some temporal characteristics of the child speech during the age periods of 0;9-1;0, 1;1-1;5, 1;6-2;0, 2;1-2;4. The answer to Research Question 1 is that our results are in agreement with neither of the hypotheses. One hypothesis assumed that decreases in intervals would be greater when children were younger and smaller decreases in intervals when older (Thelen,1991); but the other hypothesis predicted that decreases in intervals would be smaller when children were younger and greater decreases in intervals when older (Smith, Kenney & Hussain, 1996). On the whole, there is a tendency of decrease in segmental and syllabic duration with the growing age, but the changes are not drastic and abrupt. For example, /a/ after /k/ in Table 1 has greater decrease during 1;1-1;5, while /a/ after /p/, /t/ and /w/ has greater decrease during 2;1-2;4. /ka/ has greater decrease during 1;1-1;5, while /ta/ and /na/ has greater decrease during 2;1-2;4.Across the age periods, interval change experiences lots of fluctuation all the time. The answer to Research Question 2 is yes. Babbling stage is a period in which the children's acoustic features of intervals of segments, syllables, words and phrases is shifted in the direction of the language to be learned, babbling and children's speech emergence is greatly influenced by ambient language. The phonetic changes in terms of duration would go on until as late as 10-12 years of age before reaching adult-like levels. Definitely, with the increase of exposure to ambient language, the variation would be less and less until they attain the adult-like competence. Via the analysis of the SPSS 15.0, the decrease of segmental and syllabic intervals across the four age periods proves to be of no significant difference (p>0.05). It means that the change of segmental and syllabic intervals is continuous. It reveals that the process of child speech development is gradual and cumulative.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제56권5호
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• pp.395-399
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• 2014

Objective : Blood blister-like aneurysms (BBAs) resemble arterial dissections. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between these two disease entities and highlight commonalities and distinct features. Methods : Among 871 consecutive patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, 11 BBAs of internal carotid artery and seven vertebral artery dissections (VADs) with a short segmental eccentric dilatation (Mizutani type 4), which is morphologically similar to a BBA, were selected. The following clinical factors were studied in each group : age, gender, risk factors, Hunt and Hess grade (HHG), Fisher grade (FG), vasospasms, hydrocephalus, perioperative rebleeding rate, and treatment outcome. Results : The mean age was 47.9 years in the BBAs group and 46.4 years in the type 4 VADs group. All the BBA patients were female, whereas there was a slight male predominance in the type 4 VAD group (male : female ratio of 4 : 3). In the BBA and type 4 VAD groups that underwent less aggressive treatment to save the parent artery, 29% (n=2/7) and 66.6% (n=2/3), respectively, eventually required retreatment. Perioperative rebleeding occurred in 72.7% (n=8) and 28.6% (n=2) of patients in the BBA and type 4 VAD groups, respectively. There was no statistical difference in the other clinical factors in both groups, except for the male dominancy in the type 4 VAD group (p=0.011). Conclusion : BBAs and ruptured type 4 VADs have a similar morphological appearance but there is a distinct clinical feature in gender and perioperative rebleeding rates. Complete isolation of an aneurysm from the parent artery might be the most important discipline for the treatment of these diseases.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제4호
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• pp.20-30
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• 1982

The aim of this paper is to analyse difficulties of the pronunciation in swedish vowels encountered by Koreans learners and to seek solutions in order to correct the possible errors. In the course of the analysis the swedish and Korean vowels in question are compared with the purpose of describing differences aha similarities between these two systems. This contrastive description is largely based on the students' articulatory speech level ana the writer's auditory , judgement . The following points are discussed : 1 ) Vowel length as a distinctive feature in Swedish compared with that of Korean. 2) A special attention is paid on the Swedish vowel [w:] that is characterized by its peculiar type of lip rounding. 3) The six pairs of Swedish vowels that are phonologically contrastive but difficult for Koreans to distinguish one from the other: [y:] ~ [w:], [i:] ~ [y:], [e:] ~ [${\phi}$:], [w;] ~ [u:] [w:] ~ [$\theta$], [$\theta$] ~ [u] 4) The r-colored vowel in the case of the postvocalic /r/ that is very common in American English is not allowed in English sound sequences. The r-colored vowel in the American English pattern has to be broken up and replaced hi-segmental vowel-consonant sequences . Korean accustomed to the American pronunciation are warned in this respect. For a more distinct articulation of the postvocalic /r/ trill [r] is preferred to fricative [z]. 5) The front vowels [e, $\varepsilon, {\;}{\phi}$) become opener variants (${\ae}, {\;}:{\ae}$] before / r / or supradentals. The results of the analysis show that difficulties of the pronunciation of the target language (Swedish) are mostly due to the interference from the Learner's source language (Korean). However, the Learner sometimes tends to get interference also from the other foreign language with which he or she is already familiar when he or she finds in that language more similarity to the target language than in his or her own mother tongue. Hence this foreign language (American English) in this case functions as a second language for Koreans in Learning Swedish.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.19-38
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• 1986

간담도계 수술을 받고 증상이 재발한 환자 54명에서 $^{99m}Tc-DISIDA$ hepatobiliary scintraphy을 시행하고, 지역적인 질환발생 빈도의 특수성을 고려하여 이의 임상적인 이용도를 분석하였다. 1) 제일 빈도가 많은 질환은 재발농양성 담도염였으며 빈도는 57%였고 다음으로 많은 질환은 간내의 담석증이였으며 빈도는 50%이다. 2) 세번째로 많은 질환은 풍토병인 간흡충증이및으며 빈도는 26%였다. 3) 재발농양성 담도염의 87%에서 간내 및 외 담도 담석증이 발병되었으며, 다만 11.4% 만이 간흡충증과 합병되어 없었다. 4) $^{99m}Tc-DISIDA$의 간담도 영상의 진단율은 재발농양성 담도염에서 81.6%, 담도 담석증에서 78.6%, 그리고 간흡충증에서 71.7%였으며 그 외 stenosis of ampula vater, 만성 감염등도 100% 진안이 가능했다. 5) 재발농양성 담도염 및 담도 담석증의 $^{99m}Tc-DISIDA$ 영상의 특징은 담관내 bile flow의 segmental retention 였으며 그 특징적인 영상을 설명하였다.

• 만화애니메이션 연구
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• 통권32호
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• pp.1-21
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• 2013

실루엣 애니메이션은 애니메이션의 시작을 알린 20세기 초반부터 애니메이션의 한 장르로 인정받아왔으며, 특유의 움직임과 조형성은 다양한 의미론적 해석과 조형적 활용을 가능케 해왔다. 특히 프랑스의 애니메이션 감독 미셀 오슬로는 실루엣 애니메이션에 디지털을 접목하여 실루엣 애니메이션의 확장 가능성을 끊임없이 모색하고 새로운 활로를 개척하고 있다. 최근작인 <밤의 이야기>는 3차원 입체로 실루엣 애니메이션을 제작함으로써 실루엣 애니메이션이 가지고 있던 고질적 한계들을 그만의 방식과 스타일로 진화시켰다. 오슬로 감독은 점점 더 사실적인 움직임을 지향하는 디지털 애니메이션의 흐름 속에서도 선택된 움직임과 대안적 요소들을 통해 느림의 미학을 제시한다. 뿐만 아니라, 정서, 감정 등의 무의식적 요소들을 강조하는 색채, 구도, 패턴 등을 그만의 방식으로 활용함으로써 이미지 범람의 시대에 절제되면서도 오히려 디지털로 강화된 회화적 인상과 이미지를 선사한다. 이와 함께 디지털의 획득으로 가능해진 3차원적 공간 활용은 관객들에게 더욱 폭넓은 조형적 상상력을 제공한다. 이 논문에서는 움직임, 이미지, 공간의 세 가지 범주에서 미셀 오슬로의 디지털 실루엣 애니메이션인 <밤의 이야기 Tales of the Night>(2011)의 진화된 미학적 특성들을 기존 전통적 기법의 실루엣 애니메이션과의 비교를 통해 분석 하였다. 이를 통해 <밤의 이야기>가 기존 실루엣 애니메이션 특유의 환영적 특징들을 새롭게 환기시키는 동시에, 여러 가지 제약으로 침체되었던 실루엣 애니메이션 제작에 디지털 접목을 통한 새로운 활기와 가능성을 모색하게 하였음을 발견하였다. 점점 더 획일화되어가는 디지털 애니메이션의 현 시점에서 이와 같은 디지털을 접목한 실루엣 애니메이션은 기존 아날로그 방식 특유의 정적 매력을 그대로 유지하면서도 디지털로 새로운 조형적 상상력을 극대화시킨다는 점, 그리고 이러한 부분들이 향후 디지털 애니메이션의 다양성 획득과 발전적 진화에 큰 보탬이 될 수 있다는 점에 있어서 충분한 연구 가치와 그 가능성을 지니고 있다고 볼 수 있다. 뿐만 아니라, 이를 통해 미셀 오슬로의 새로운 실험과 작품경향에 대해서도 살펴볼 수 있는 기회를 마련하고자 한다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.75-84
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• 2012

HMM 기반 음성합성시스템은 성능향상을 위해 일반적으로 대용량 음성 DB로부터 생성된 문맥의존 tri-phone을 이용한다. 그리고 대용량 DB의 경량화를 위해서 문맥의존정보를 이용하여 결정트리 방식으로 발화특성이 유사한 문맥의존음소들을 군집화한다. 군집화에 사용하는 문맥의존정보는 음소열 뿐만 아니라 운율정보도 포함하는데 이는 합성음의 자연성이 끊어 읽기, 억양패턴, 음의 장단과 같은 운율에 의해 크게 좌우되기 때문이다. 그러나 복잡한 운율정보를 사용할 경우 훈련과정에 포함되지 않은 문맥의존음소는 하나의 대표값으로 평활화되며 이로 인해 합성음의 자연성이 크게 저하된다. 본 논문에서는 합성음의 자연성을 향상시키기 위해 복잡한 운율정보 대신 억양 변화를 상승, 평탄, 하강으로 구분함으로써 운율정보표현을 간소화시킨 운율경계정보를 포함하는 문맥의존정보에 대한 문맥질의, 그리고 해당 질의의 패턴을 정의하는 방법을 제안하였다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 세 가지 운율경계정보를 포함한 문맥의존정보를 이용하여 합성음을 생성하고 MOS평가를 수행한 결과 운율경계정보를 이용한 HMM기반 한국어 TTS 합성음의 자연성이 향상됨을 확인하였다.

• 대한영상의학회지
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• 제83권5호
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• pp.1032-1045
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• 2022

말초동맥질환은 고령의 환자들에게서 흔하게 발생하며, 하지 동맥 단층촬영 혈관조영술은 말초동맥질환을 발견하고 치료 계획을 세우는데 유용하다. 특히, 이중에너지 단층 촬영을 통해 낮은 kiloelectron volt (이하 KeV) 영상부터 높은 KeV 영상까지 단일 에너지 영상을 재구성하면, 말초동맥질환을 정확하게 평가하는데 도움이 된다. 일반적으로 낮은 KeV 영상은 높은 대조도를 제공해 주지만, 낮은 KeV 영상은 높은 KeV 영상보다 더 심한 잡음을 제공한다는 단점도 있다. 최근에 낮은 KeV 영상에서 잡음을 극복하기 위해 Mono+ 기술이 도입되었다. 따라서, 본 임상 화보에서는 Mono+ 기법으로 시행한 하지동맥 단층촬영 혈관조영술에서의 말초동맥질환의 영상 소견을 보여주며 낮은 KeV 영상과 높은 KeV 영상의 특성이 어떻게 다른지 비교하여 보여주고자 한다. 많은 사례에서, 전체적인 영상의 질과 말초동맥질환을 평가하고자 하는 구간에서의 영상의 질은 모두 높은 KeV에서 더 좋았고, 금속 인공물과 정맥 오염은 높은 KeV 영상에서 감소했다.