• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제16권10호
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• pp.6527-6533
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• 2015

본 논문은 한국어와 영어 성별어(genderlect)에 관한 비교연구이다. 성별어란 성(gender)의 차이가 언어에 반영된 현상을 말한다. 일반적으로 여성의 언어가 남성의 언어와 다르며, 이러한 차이가 성차별의 원인이나 증거가 된다는 것에 초점이 맞추어져서 연구가 이루어져 왔다. 본 논문은 성별어 중 여성발화의 특성을 영어와 한국어의 영화와 드라마 대사를 분석하여 알아보고자 하였다. 영어자료에서는 여성어가 주로 어휘 즉, 명사, 형용사, 부사의 사용과 관련하여 나타났으나, 한국어 자료에서는 어휘 뿐 아니라 한국어 경어법의 최고단계인 '합쇼체'와 관련하여 여성이 익숙치 않다는 특성이 드러났다. 일반적으로 공손발화에서는 영어나 한국어 모두 여성발화가 공손표현의 특징과 유사한데, 한국 여성들은 경어법에서 아주높임단계를 선호하지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 한국어와 영어의 성별어의 특징이 공손표현이라는 측면에서는 일반적으로 공유하는 부분이 많지만, 한국 여성들의 경우에는 공손어법 중 경어법의 최고 단계인 '합쇼체'보다는 '해요체'를 선호하는 부분을 주목하였다. 이는 성별어의 세계 보편적인 특성과 개별 문화의 차이가 드러나는 부분이라 하겠다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.33-44
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• 2019

이 연구의 목적은 한국어의 휴지 실현에 과제, 세대, 성별이라는 변수가 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 살펴보는 것이다. 이를 위해 구어 코퍼스에서 세대, 성별에 따른 총 48명을 선정하여 두 가지 발화 과제 데이터를 분석하였다. 휴지는 발화에서 출현하는 위치와 들숨 동반 여부에 따라 들숨 동반 발화 말 휴지, 들숨 동반 발화 내 휴지, 들숨 비동반 발화 말 휴지, 들숨 비동반 발화 말 휴지로 구분하여 살펴보았고 각각의 빈도와 길이, 그리고 휴지에 영향을 줄 수 있는 다양한 요소들을 함께 살펴보았다. 그 결과 발화 말 휴지 길이가 발화 내 휴지 길이보다 약 160 ms 이상 더 긴 것을 확인하였다. 이는 휴지가 운율적 정규성을 가지며, 발화 말 휴지는 발화의 종결을 신호하는 역할을 체계적으로 수행한다는 것을 의미한다. 자유 발화는 낭독 발화보다 더 긴 휴지가 더 자주 나타나는 것을 확인하였다. 낭독 발화에서는 화자의 즉각적이고 적극적인 발화 계획이 요구되기 때문이다. 성별의 경우 전반적으로 남성은 여성보다 길고 빈번한 휴지를 보였다. 특히 들숨 동반 휴지는 남성이 여성보다 길었다. 세대의 경우 장년층이 청년층보다 더 자주 휴지를 산출했다. 이 밖에도 변수 간 상호 작용 효과가 관찰되었다. 휴지 길이의 성별 차이에 따르면 남성이 여성보다 휴지 길이가 긴데, 이는 특히 발화 말 휴지에서 두드러졌다.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제43호
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• pp.11-23
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• 2002

In this paper, speech style is divided into two - read speech and dialogue. In the experiment, read speech and dialogue use the same sentence to control discrepancy from different sentence. While the number of AP in read speech is less than in dialogue, the number of IP in read speech is more than in dialogue. The number of syllables which consist of AP is more various in dialogue. Intonational patterns of the first AP in IP make a difference. In dialogue, there is a pattern which has many high tones - LHH. The FO range in dialogue is wider than in read speech.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.33-37
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• 2018

Korean students with much exposure to the relatively slow and clear speech used in most English classes in Korea can be expected to have difficulty understanding the casual style that is common in the everyday speech of English speakers. This research attempted to investigate an effective way to utilize casual speech in English education, by exploring the way different speech styles (clear vs. casual) affect Korean learners' comprehension of spoken English. Twenty Korean university students and two native speakers of English participated in a listening session. The English utterances were produced in different speech styles (clear slow, casual slow, clear fast, and casual fast). The Korean students were divided into two groups by English proficiency level. The results showed that the Korean students achieved 69.4% comprehension accuracy, while the native speakers of English demonstrated almost perfect results. The Korean students (especially the low-proficiency group) had more problems perceiving function words than they did perceiving content words. Responding to the different speech styles, the high-proficiency group had more difficulty listening to utterances with phonological variation than they did listening to utterances produced at a faster speed. The low-proficiency group, however, struggled with utterances produced at a faster speed more than they did with utterances with phonological variation. The pedagogical implications of the results are discussed in the concluding section.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2005년도 춘계 학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.21-24
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• 2005

This paper presents durational characteristics of Korean Lombard speech using data, which consist of 500 Lombard utterances and 500 normal utterances of 10 speakers (5 males and 5 females). Each file was segmented and labeled manually and the duration of each segment and each word was extracted. The durational change of Lombard effect in comparison with normal speech was analyzed using a statistical method. The results show that the duration of words with Lombard effect is increased in comparison with normal style, and that the average unvoiced consonantal duration is reduced while the average vocalic duration is increased. Female speakers show a stronger tendency towards lengthening the duration in Lombard speech, but without statistical significance. Finally, this study also shows that the speakers of Lombard speech could be classified according to their different duration rate.

• 음성과학
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.77-91
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• 2001

This paper investigates the timing of Korean spoken in a news-reading speech style in order to improve the naturalness of durations used in Korean speech synthesis. Each segment in a corpus of 671 read sentences was annotated with 69 segmental and prosodic features so that the measured duration could be correlated with the context in which it occurred. A CART model based on the features showed a correlation coefficient of 0.79 with an RMSE (root mean squared prediction error) of 23 ms between actual and predicted durations in reserved test data. These results are comparable with recent published results in Korean and similar to results found in other languages. An analysis of the classification tree shows that phrasal structure has the greatest effect on the segment duration, followed by syllable structure and the manner features of surrounding segments. The place features of surrounding segments only have small effects. The model has application in Korean speech synthesis systems.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.41-50
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• 2010

The current study exploresacoustic variation induced by prosodic contexts in different speech styles,with a focus on motherese or child-directed speech (CDS). The patterns of variation in the acoustic expression of voicing contrast in English stops, and the role of prosodic factors in governing such variation are investigated in CDS. Prosody-induced acoustic strengthening reported from adult-directed speech (ADS)is examined in the speech data directed to infants at the one-word stage. The target consonants are collected from Utterance-initial and -medial positions, with or without focal accent. Overall, CDS shows that the prosodic prominence of constituents under focal accent conditions variesin the acoustic correlates of the stop laryngeal contrasts. The initial position is not found with enhanced acoustic values in the current study, which is similar to the finding from ADS (Choi, 2006 Cole et al, 2007). Individualized statistical results, however, indicate that the effect of accent on acoustic measures is not very robust, compared to the effect of accent in ADS. Enhanced distinctiveness under focal accent is observed from the limited subjects' acoustic measures in CDS. The results indicate dissimilar strategies to mark prosodic structures in different speech styles as well as the consistent prosodic effect across speech styles. The stylistic variation is discussed in relation to the listener under linguistic development in CDS.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.103-109
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• 2015

This paper describes the development of the Korean corpus of spontaneous speech, also called the Seoul corpus. The corpus contains the audio recording of the interview-style spontaneous speech from the 40 native speakers of Seoul Korean. The talkers are divided into four age groups; talkers in their teens, twenties, thirties and forties. Each age group has ten talkers, five males and five females. The method used to elicit and record the speech is described. The corpus containing around 220,000 phrasal words was phonemically labeled along with information on the boundaries for Korean phrasal words and utterances, which were additionally romanized. According to the test result of labeling consistency, the inter-labeler agreement on phoneme identification was 98.1% and the mean deviation on boundary placement was 9.04 msec. The corpus will be made available for free to the research community in March, 2015.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1994년도 제11회 음성통신 및 신호처리 워크샵 논문집 (SCAS 11권 1호)
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• pp.107-110
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• 1994

In this paper, we describe the features of the fundamental frequency contour of Korean read speech, and propose a new stylization method to characterize the Fø pattern of segments. Our algorithm consists of three stylization processes : the segment level, the syllable level, and the sord level. For stylization of Fø contour in the segment level , we applied least square error minimization method to determine Fø values at initial, medial, and final position in a segment. In the syllable level, we determine the stylized Fø pattern of a syllable using the mean Fø value of each word and style information for each word, syllable and segment, we reconstruct Fø contour of sentences. The simulation results show that the error is less than 10% of the actual Fø contour for each sentence. In perception test, there is little difference between the synthesized speech with the original difference between the synthesized speech with the original Fø contour and the synthesized speech with the stylized Fø contour.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.91-99
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• 2014

Speaking styles tend to have an influence on spectral characteristics of produced speech. There are not many studies on the spectral characteristics of speech because of complicated processing of too much spectral data. The purpose of this study was to examine spectral characteristics and formant bandwidths of English vowels produced by nine American males with different speaking styles: clear or conversational styles; high- or low-pitched voices. Praat was used to collect pitch-corrected long-term averaged spectra and bandwidths of the first two formants of eleven vowels in the speaking styles. Results showed that the spectral characteristics of the vowels varied systematically according to the speaking styles. The clear speech showed higher spectral energy of the vowels than that of the conversational speech while the high-pitched voice did the same over the low-pitched voice. In addition, front and back vowel groups showed different spectral characteristics. Secondly, there was no statistically significant difference between B1 and B2 in the speaking styles. B1 was generally lower than B2 when reflecting the source spectrum and radiation effect. However, there was a statistically significant difference in B2 between the front and back vowel groups. The author concluded that spectral characteristics reflect speaking styles systematically while bandwidths measured at a few formant frequency points do not reveal style differences properly. Further studies would be desirable to examine how people would evaluate different sets of synthetic vowels with spectral characteristics or with bandwidths modified.