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Reinterpretation of the Perception of Place Cues in the Reduced Closure Duration of Stop Consonant Clusters (폐쇄자음군의 폐쇄구간 축소에 따른 위치성 지각에 대한 재해석)

  • 이석재
    • MALSORI
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    • no.45
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2003
  • This paper criticizes S. Kim (1992), claiming that the perception of place cues in the reduced stop consonant clusters ('reducing' means 'cutting off' the acoustic silence in stop clusters) largely depends on the acoustic characteristics such as formant transition and noise frequency distribution of stop burst, rather than the closure duration time as advocated by S. Kim (1992). The claim is based on the perception test conducted upon 111 stimuli over 10 subjects. The finding is that, when the closure duration is cut off up to the point where only one stop is perceived, place of the second stop, not the first one, in the cluster is in most cases perceived regardless of the places of the first and second stops. It is likely that the place cues of the stop in the prevocalic position mask those in the postvocalic position.

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The phenomenological study on the Experience of the Stop-out of Korean Medicine Students (한의대생의 휴학경험에 관한 현상학적 연구)

  • An, Hyo Ja;Shin, Heon Tae
    • Journal of Society of Preventive Korean Medicine
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.39-51
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    • 2016
  • Objectives : This study was to identify the stop-out experiences of Korean Medicine Students(K.M.S.). The stop-out is defined as a withdrawal temporarily from enrollment at a university. Methods : Data was collected through in-depth individual interviews from 2013 to 2016 and analyzed with Colaizzi's phenomenological methodology. The participants were interviewed once or twice, for 30minutes to 50minutes per interview. Results : Ten theme-clusters were identified from 21 themes. These theme-clusters were divided to 4 divisions as when they made the decision for the stop-out, during their stop-out period, when they went back to school and the meaning of their stop-out. 'A difficult situation to continue the study', 'Uncertainty about their decision and anxiety of the future' are 2 theme-clusters for when they made the decision for the stop-out, 'Conflict and anxiety', 'Novel and free time', 'Improving family relationship and finding new relationship' are 3 theme-clusters for during their stop-out period, 'Anxiety for the returning to school', 'New relationship and sense of relief' are 2 theme-clusters for when they went back to school, and 'Making a present for me', 'An opportunity for the emotional growth', 'Recovery of learning will' are 3 theme-clusters for the meaning of their stop-out that they gave to it. Conclusions : The stop - out of K.M.S. began at the hope that they want to take the lead for their lives. And they would find themselves more mature after the experience of their stop-out. This result could be a basic reference for the counselling of the faculty working with K.M.S.

An Asymmetrical Realization of Nasal-Obstruent Clusters in English

  • Chung, Chin-Wan
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.51-70
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    • 2009
  • This study focuses on the asymmetrical realization of homorganic nasal-obstruent stop clusters in English when they occur word medially and word finally. This uneven realization of NC clusters is not only controlled by the place of articulation of the cluster constituents but also by the agreement of voicing feature specifications of the cluster elements. We propose context-sensitive constraints, which are more specified versions than *NC (Pater, 1996, 1999, 2004). The result of the study reveals that homorganic NC clusters consisting of coronal place feature are faithfully realized word finally while they are constrained word medially. The deletion of voiceless post-nasal coronal stop should be considered a new language specific strategy to avoid *NC.

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An Experimental Studies on Vowel Duration Differences before Consonant Clusters and unreleased stops of coda-position (영어 어말 자음군 구성에 따른 선행모음 길이 변화 및 어말 자음 비파열 현상에 대한 실험음성학적 연구 -무성 폐쇄음을 중심으로-)

  • Shin Dong-Jin
    • Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.55-58
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    • 2006
  • The aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of postvocalic consonant cluster (Contrasting nasal-stops consonant with stops) on vowel duration. In particular we focused on the rate of vowel duration in their words. (Experimental I ) and the tendency of unreleased voiceless stops at the end of the words.(Experimental II). The result of experimental I showed that the rate of vowel duration which is preceding single voiceless stops are significantly longer than those preceding nasal-stops counterparts and the percentage of English native speakers was longer than those of Korean leaners of English Experiment II indicated that the tendency of unreleased stop consonants occurred more frequently on single voiceless stops than nasal-stop clusters and Korean learners of English were more frequently produced the unreleased stops than English natives.

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The Phonetic Realization of Stem-Final Consonant Clusters in Korean (유음으로 시작하는 어간말 중자음의 음성실현 양상)

  • Kang, Eun-Ji
    • Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.143-146
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    • 2004
  • The aim of this paper is to investigate how the stem-final consonant clusters beginning with the liquid /ㄹ/ in Korean are realized in speech. Most scholars claim that the Korean stem-final consonant clusters are simplified and reduced to a stop consonant when pronounced. An attempt is made in this paper to verify the claim by conducting a series of listening tests and an acoustic analysis. The listening tests show that, contrary to the previous claims, some Koreans actually pronounce the stem-final consonant clusters as a whole. The result of the spectrographical study confirms our auditory observation. It has been found that the duration time taken by the stem-final consonant clusters is clearly longer when both consonants are pronounced than when only a liquid is pronounced. Similarly the vowel length of the previous syllable in the former is found to be longer in scale than the latter.

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Gathering Common-word and Document Reclassification to improve Accuracy of Document Clustering (문서 군집화의 정확률 향상을 위한 범용어 수집과 문서 재분류 알고리즘)

  • Shin, Joon-Choul;Ock, Cheol-Young;Lee, Eung-Bong
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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    • v.19B no.1
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    • pp.53-62
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    • 2012
  • Clustering technology is used to deal efficiently with many searched documents in information retrieval system. But the accuracy of the clustering is satisfied to the requirement of only some domains. This paper proposes two methods to increase accuracy of the clustering. We define a common-word, that is frequently used but has low weight during clustering. We propose the method that automatically gathers the common-word and calculates its weight from the searched documents. From the experiments, the clustering error rates using the common-word is reduced to 34% compared with clustering using a stop-word. After generating first clusters using average link clustering from the searched documents, we propose the algorithm that reevaluates the similarity between document and clusters and reclassifies the document into more similar clusters. From the experiments using Naver JiSikIn category, the accuracy of reclassified clusters is increased to 1.81% compared with first clusters without reclassification.

A Study of the Analyses of Pronunciation Errors and Teaching Method of Stop-liquid Sequences in English (영어 정지음-유음 연쇄체의 발음오류분석과 지도방안연구)

  • Kim, Ju-Hee;Park, Han-Sang
    • Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.99-101
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    • 2007
  • This study analyzes Korean middle school students' pronunciation errors of stop-liquid sequences in English. The results showed two typical errors: the insertion of a vowel between a stop and a liquid and the substitution of a liquid with a flap or vice versa. Those pronunciation errors seem to occur since English and Korean have different syllable structures and different types of liquids. A teaching material, which emphasizes no vowel insertion for a proper pronunciation of the consonant clusters, was designed to reduce Korean students' pronunciation errors. Errors were reduced substantially after a 50-minute class with the newly designed material.

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Korean Native Speakers' Perception of English Sounds According to the Groupings of Phonetic Contrasts

  • Kim, Gi-Na;Kim, Soo-Jin
    • Speech Sciences
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.59-67
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate Korean native speakers' perception of English sounds according to groupings of phonetic contrasts. The four groupings looked at were vowels, voicing (voiced-unvoiced), fricatives with difference in place of articulation, and other clusters of specific sound contrasts, such as stop-fricatives and liquids. The position of a sound in syllable was also examined. According to the results of ANOVA and a post-hoc analysis, the perception of vowels, in the medial position was different from that of consonants in the initial and final position. Vowels proved to be the most difficult group to perceive correctly. With the consonants, there was not a big difference whether the contrasts came initially or finally. The order of difficulty was liquids, fricatives, stop-fricatives, and finally voicing.

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Measuring the Environmental Quenching Timescales of Galaxy Clusters in the COSMOS field

  • Ko, Eunhee;Im, Myungshin;Lee, Seong-Kook;Paek, Insu;Park, Bomi
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.46 no.2
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    • pp.43.1-43.1
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    • 2021
  • Using 74 galaxy clusters in the COSMOS field at 0.1 < z < 1.2, we calculate the environmental quenching timescale, defined as the time required after a galaxy is accreted by a cluster for it to stop star formation. Cluster candidates are selected as the overdensities with the surface number density exceeding the 4-σ. With the "delayed-then-rapid" quenching model, we can successfully reproduce the separation of the galaxies(star-forming, intermediate, and quiescent) on the NUV-R - R-J color plane comparing with the BC03 evolutionary track. With the mass growth rate of halo mass and the ratio of categorized galaxies, we can constratin the environmental quenching timescale ~ 2Gyr at z ~ 1. We will present the result as a function of redshift and compare them with dynamical timescale and gas depletion timescale.

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Dual Clusters of the Metropolitan Region: A Comparative Study on the Spatial Agglomeration, Social Capital Formation, and Institutionalization of Dongdaemun Market and Seoul Venture Valley in Seoul, Korea (서울 신신업집적지 발전의 두 유형: 동대문시장과 서울벤처벨리의 산업집적, 사회적 자본의 형성과 제도화 특성에 대한 비교)

  • 남기범
    • Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.45-60
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    • 2003
  • As the process of economic globalization deepens market uncertainty and severe competition, modern companies are tend to rely on non-market, socio-economic mechanisms such as trust, collaboration, and interdependence, They are being more influenced by cultural economic mechanisms like networks, embeddedness, and placeness rather than explicit cost-reductions. This paper analyzes the characteristics of industrial clusters, the formation of social capital, and the process of institutionalization by comparing two distinctive types of clusters, say Teheran and East-Gate Valleys in Seoul, Korea. The one is mainly consisted of IT industries with increasing vertical integration supported by venture capitals and favorable business infrastructures. The other cluster has long been a traditional CBD frame of Seoul and has transformed to the most dynamic and productive area, characterized by one-stop 'R&D-production-distribution-consumption-after sales services'. The study of the developmental trajectory and key characteristics for these kinds of clusters can give us insight for the cluster theory. This paper firstly reviews the similarities and differences between the social capital in general and that of industrial clusters. It then profiles the growth of the two clusters over the past decade, and compares the current spatial and business structure of the two clusters, focusing on transactions costs, the creation and flow of information, and the local institutions. The paper concludes with some comments about the prospects and perils of the two types industrial clusters of Seoul.

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