• 한국영어학회지:영어학
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.509-536
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• 2001

The traditional typology of English poetic meters makes a binary division between strong-stress (or accentual) meters and accentual-syllabic (or syllable-stress or syllable-accent) meters. According to this typology, Old and Middle English alliterative poetry was composed in strong-stress meter; the iambic pentameter from Chaucer to Yeats and on to the present has been an accentual-syllabic meter. Intersecting with this literary typology is a linguistic typology that classifies languages of the world as stress-timed or syllable-timed or some mix of the two. English is a clear example of a stress-timed language. Whereas most descriptions of strong-stress meter focus on the counting of stresses, the present study focuses on the patterns of unstressed syllables between the stresses (possibly at isochronous intervals). The implications of this analysis suggest a new typology in which certain forms of English verse follow strict grammatical stress (mainly Old and Middle English, but for reasons different from “strong-stress” expectations) and other forms are shaped by a compromise of grammatical stress and the metrical template. Within this later group, iambic pentameter contrasts with trochaic, anapestic, and dipodic meters in lending itself more readily to modulation. Some of this modulation comes from an easy incorporation into iambic pentameter of elements associated with Old and Middle English meters.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.45-52
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• 2018

This study investigates the effect of Japanese (L1) on the production of the Korean rhythmic structure. Korean and Japanese have typologically different rhythmic structure as a syllable-timed language and mora-timed language, respectively. This rhythmic difference comes from the different phonological properties of the two languages. Due to this difference, Japanese speakers that are learning Korean may produce a different rhythm than native Korean speakers' rhythm. To investigate the influence of the native language's rhythm on the target language, we conducted an acoustic analysis using acoustic metrics such as %V, VarcoV, and VarcoS. Four Korean native speakers and ten advanced Japanese Korean learners participated in a production test. The analyzed material consisted of six Korean sentences that contained various syllable structures. The results showed that KS and JS's rhythms are different in %V as well as in VarcoV. In the case of VarcoS, significant rhythmic difference was observed in the VC and CVC syllable, in which the coda segment is nasal sound. This study allowed us to observe the influence of L1 on production of L2 rhythm.

• 음성과학
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.165-173
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• 2002

Strong compression effects in a stressed vowel due to the addition of syllables have been adopted as evidence for stress-timing. In relation to this, Yun (2002) investigated the compression effects of number of syllables on Korean vowel. The results generally revealed that Korean had neither significant nor consistent anticipatory or backwards compression effects, especially when it came to the sentence level. This led us to claim that Korean would not be a stress-timed language. But the language investigated in the study was only Korean, and further cross-linguistic research was needed to confirm the claim. In this study, Yun's (2002) sentence level data are compared with Fowler's (1981) English data. The comparison reveals that Korean seems to be similar to English in the backwards compression effect, whereas the two languages are markedly different in the anticipatory compression effect. Thus, if English is a stress-timed language and the strong anticipatory compression effect is evidence in favour of stress-timing as is claimed, the present cross-linguistic study confirms Yun's (2002) suggestion-Korean is unlikely to be stress-timed. On the other hand, compression effects are revisited: the differences in vowel compression between English and Korean are discussed from the syntactic and phonological points of view.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.71-79
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• 2019

This study aims to investigate the rhythmic patterns in the English speech produced by Chinese learners of English who learn English as a foreign language (EFL learners). Utilizing interval-based rhythm metrics, namely, VarcoC, VarcoV, nPVI-C, nPVI-V, and %V, the study compared the rhythmic differences in English speech between ten native speakers from the United States and forty Chinese EFL learners from mainland China. A sentence elicitation task consisting of thirty picture prompts and corresponding thirty stimuli sentences with at least five vocalic and four consonantal intervals was conducted. Statistical results reveal that both Chinese advanced learners and beginners had significantly lower degree of stress-timed in their English speech, indicating that the acquisition of the L2 speech rhythm was influenced by the learners' L1 rhythmic pattern. In addition, the results also show that the Chinese advanced learners had significantly higher degree of stress-timed in their English speech than beginners and showed no significant difference with native speakers in VarcoC and nPVI-C. These results indicate that the direction of L2 speech rhythm development was from more syllable-timed to more stress-timed.

• 음성과학
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.95-112
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• 2005

We investigate Korean learners' speech-timing of English before and after instruction in comparison with native speech, in an attempt to resolve disagreements in the literature as to whether speech-timing is measurable (Lehiste, 1977; Roach, 1982; Dauer, 1983 vs. Low et al., 2000; Yun 2002; Jian, 2004). We measured the pair-wise variability between the adjacent stressed and unstressed syllables within a foot as well as that among adjacent feet in approximately 555 English sentences, which were read by 29 native speakers and 41 Korean learners in the intermediate proficiency level. The results show that in comparison with native American English, Korean learner speech is before instruction significantly (p<.001) smaller for the pair-wise variability between the adjacent stressed and unstressed syllables within a foot; and significantly (p=.01) bigger for the variability among adjacent feet within the utterance. The learner speech after instruction showed significant (p=.01) improvement in the pair-wise variability of syllable sequence toward native speech values. The variability among adjacent feet was progressively smaller for learner speech before and after instruction and for native speech (p=.03). We thus conclude that the speech timing difference between Korean English and American English is measurable in terms of the duration. of stressed and unstressed syllables and that the latter is stress-timed and the former is syllable-timing interfered.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.27-35
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 중국인 한국어학습자들의 한국어 낭독발화에서 나타나는 리듬의 변화양상을 한국어 모국어화자와의 비교를 통해 분석하였다. 그리고 이를 통해 모국어화자와 구별되는 리듬의 물리적 속성을 고찰하여 목표어의 리듬 습득과정에서 나타나는 중국인학습자들의 발화 특성을 고찰하고자 하였다. 한국어와 중국어는 리듬 유형론적으로 다른 범주에 속한다. 일반적으로 한국어는 음절박자언어와 강세박자언어의 모습을 모두 보이는 것으로 알려져 있으며 중국어는 음절박자언어로 분류된다. 두 언어는 음절구조, 어휘강세나 모음약화 현상의 부재 등 음운론적으로 유사한 특성을 보이지만 세부적인 차이도 존재한다. 이런 맥락에서 본다면 한국어 리듬 실현에서 모국어인 중국어의 긍정적 전이와 부정적 전이가 모두 나타날 수 있을 것이다. 본 연구에서는 표준어를 구사하는 한국어 원어민화자 5명과 한국어 숙달도 고급 수준의 중국인한국어학습자 10명이 발화문을 녹음하여 분석하였다. 분석자료는 다섯 문장으로 구성된 한 단락의 담화이다. 중국인 한국어학습자들의 한국어 리듬구조를 파악하기 위해 %V, VarcoV, nPVI_V, nPVI_S값을 측정하였다. 측정결과 %V와 VarcoV의 값에서 두 그룹은 모두 음절박자언어의 특성을 보였다. 그러나 중국인학습자들은 한국화자와는 유의미한 차이로 낮은 %V와 높은 VarcoV를 보여 보다 강세박자언어에 가까운 리듬구조를 보였다. nPVI_S값에서는 유사한 면이 관찰되었으나 nPVI_V에서 두 그룹 간 유의미한 차이가 나타났다. 두 그룹에서 나타난 리듬구조의 차이는 무엇보다 모음 길이의 변동의 차이로 귀속될 수 있고 그 원인은 중국어에 존재하는 모음 위계의 차이에서 비롯되는 것으로 판단되었다. 이러한 모국어의 발화습관이 한국어 리듬구조에 영향을 미쳐 보다 강세박자언에 가까운 속성을 보이며 이로 인해 한국어 모국어 화자와 다른 청지각적 리듬 차이를 유발한다고 할 수 있다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.81-87
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• 2019

The purpose of the current study is to investigate the realization of speech rhythm in English as spoken by Korean learners of English. The study particularly aims to examine the rhythm metrics of English read speech by learners who speak Busan or the South Kyungsang dialect of Korean. Twenty-four learners whose L1 is Busan Korean and eight native speakers of English read a passage wherein five sentences were segmented and labeled as vocalic and intervocalic intervals. Various rhythm metrics such as %V, Varcos, and Pairwise Variability Indexes (PVIs) were calculated. The results show that Korean learners read English sentences with significantly more vocalic and consonantal intervals at a slower speech rate than native English speakers. The analyses of rhythm metrics revealed that when the speech rate was not normalized, Korean learners' English showed more variability in the length of consonantal and vocalic intervals. However, speech-rate-normalized rhythm metrics for vocalic intervals indicated that Korean learners transferred their L1 rhythmic structures (a syllable-timed language) into their L2 speech (a stress-timed language). Overall, the results suggest that Korean learners' English reflects the rhythmic characteristics of their L1. The effect of the learners' L1 dialect on the realization of L2 speech rhythm is also speculated.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제67호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2008

Stress effects upon Korean vowels were investigated with reference to rhythm. We measured three acoustic correlates (Duration: VOT, Vowel Duration; F0; Intensity) of stress from the seven pairs of stressed vs. unstressed Korean vowels /i, ${\varepsilon}(e)$, a, o, u, i, e/. The results of the experiment revealed that stress gave only inconsistent and weak effects on duration, which supports that Korean is not a stress-timed language as far as strong stress effects on duration are still considered crucial in stress-timing. On the other hand, Korean stressed vowels were most characterized with higher F0 and next with stronger intensity. But speakers generally showed tactics to reversely use F0 and intensity in stressing an utterance rather than proportionately strengthening both of the two acoustic correlates of stress. There was found great inter-speaker variability especially in the variations of duration.

• 한국엔터테인먼트산업학회논문지
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.343-362
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• 2020

영어는 강세 박자 언어로서 강세 변화에 의한 발화의 재구조가 이루어지는 음운체계를 갖는다. 반면 한국어는 각각의 음절을 거의 똑같은 길이와 강도로 발음하는 음절 박자 언어로 일반적 발화 속에서 한국어와 영어는 분명하게 다른 운율체계를 갖는다. 그러나 K-Pop 음악 속에서 노랫말의 언어가 한국어와 영어, 두 가지 언어로 혼용되면서 K-Pop 음악 속에서의 한국어 노랫말은 영어처럼 강세변화에 의한 운율체계를 갖게 되었다. 이러한 한국어 노랫말의 운율구조 변화 현상을 신한류 지속화를 위해 앞으로도 지속될 수밖에 없는 필연적 현상으로 보는 것이 논자의 입장이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 K-Pop 음악의 주요 장르이자 리듬표현에 중점을 두는 댄스음악을 한류 변화 양상에 따라 1998년, 2003년, 2009년으로 구분하고, 각 시기의 노랫말 운율구조를 비교·분석하였다. 또한 이를 바탕으로 현재의 K-Pop 운율구조 특징을 도출하여 한 음표당 하나의 음절씩 배당하여 작사하던 기존의 제한적 작사법에서 벗어난 K-Pop 한국어 작사법을 제안하였다. 이 연구가 K-Pop에서 한국어 노랫말로 작사할 때의 하나의 방법론으로 활용되기를 바라며, 더불어 한국어 노랫말 사용의 장려 방안이 되기를 기대해 본다.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제41호
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• pp.61-71
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• 2001

How to teach intelligible, communicative pronunciation is a continuous question in the English education. Without good input, we can not expect good output. However, in EFL situation, it is very difficult to input the good English pronunciation, therefore, we have to find out the efficient and effective material for teaching pronunciation. One of the materials is song, because songs contain the linguistic and cultural traits of the language. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the reason why songs are good for teaching pronunciation. Koreans, who are syllable timed language users, have difficulties in English pronunciation of stress, rhythm, consonants cluster, linking or blending in connected speech. The 134 songs from wee sing are analyzed for how these traits show in songs. The result shows that we can acquire the traits easily and naturally through songs. And a lesson plan is offered as an example for teaching songs.