• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.47-54
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to analyse prosodic characteristics of accentual phrases (AP, hereafter) produced by Chinese learners of Korean in Korean text reading. The study is restricted only to the initial APs. Subjects are students who have been studying Korean at a beginner level. The results showed that Chinese learners of Korean tended to make errors in the realization of the tonal patterns of the initial 2 syllables of the initial APs. Also they showed different F0 slopes across the initial and second syllables in the initial APs. Chinese learners of Korean, therefore, need to focus on the prosodic characteristics of the initial 2 syllables of Korean APs to realize fluent Korean intonation.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제44권8호
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• pp.977-984
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• 2012

The cross-correlation technique has been widely used for leakage detection of buried pipes, and this technique can be successfully applied when the leakage signal has a high signal-to-noise ratio. In the case of a power plant, the measured leakage signals obtained from the sensors may contain background noise and mechanical noise generated by adjacent machinery. In such a case, the conventional method using the cross-correlation function may fail to estimate the leakage point. In order to enhance the leakage estimation capability of a buried pipe in a noisy environment, an improved cross-correlation technique is proposed. It uses a noise rejection technique in the frequency domain to effectively eliminate the tonal noise due to rotating machinery. Experiments were carried out to verify the validity of the proposed method. The results show that even in a tonal noisy environment, the proposed method can provide more reliable means for estimating the time delay of the leakage signals.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.1329-1337
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• 2009

Because the tonal sound of the underwater noise in a naval vessel can be identified from the sub-marine of the enemy, it should be reduced sufficiently. This kind of the noise usually comes from the structure-borne noise of the onboard machine and transfers to the sea through the hull of the ship. The vibration at the high frequency can be reduced sufficiently with damping material. In this paper, the damping coefficient of the steel plate with damping sheet is evaluated by experiment. Using these evaluated properties, the numerical analysis is performed in order to evaluate how much vibration of the generator can be reduced applying damping sheet on the encloser and base of it.

• 한국어교육
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.25-51
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• 2017

This study aimed to identify the differences in pitch perception between tonal and non-tonal language listeners. A total of 60 Korean and Chinese listeners participated in the perception test. A two-syllable nonsense word /paba/ was manipulated in five steps. The pitch height or contour on the second syllable was raised or lowered. Both groups were asked to select which of the two syllables had the higher pitch. The findings showed that the majority of Korean listeners (GK) perceived decreased pitch as each peak of the syllable was lowered and perceived increased pitch as it was raised, which means the pitch height is a primary perceptual cue for GK. However, Chinese listeners (GC) perceived sensitive pitch movements as the pitch contour changed. GC's perception may presumably be affected by the L1's tone sandhi. We found it reasonable to assume that language experience has a significant effect on the cross-linguistic perceptual differences between tone and non-tonal language listeners.

• 수완나부미
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.193-228
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• 2022

This study investigates the production and perception of Vietnamese tones by Japanese, Lao, and Taiwanese second language (L2) learners [n=30], comparing their performance in an Imitation task to that of Identification and Read-Aloud tasks. The results show that the Imitation task is generally easier for L2 speakers than the Identification and Read-Aloud tasks, suggesting that imitation is performed without some of the skills required by the other two tasks. It is also found that Lao and Taiwanese speakers outperform Japanese speakers, suggesting that prior experience with one tone language facilitates the acquisition of tone in another language. The result on speakers' tonal range show that L2 leaners have significantly narrower tonal F0 range than control Vietnamese speakers [n=11]. The results of error pattern analysis and tonal transcription also suggest that non-modal voice (glottal stop and creakiness) and contour tones (bidirectional fall-rise) are more difficult for L2 learners than modal voice tones (e.g., unidirectional contours: rising, falling, and level).

• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.39-48
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• 2023

In this study, we investigate the effects of slots installed on the tip of a rotor blade on aerodynamic characteristics. The slots weaken the strength and spatial coherence of the tip vortex at early vortex age and accelerate the dissipation of the generated tip vortex. Accordingly, the turbulence intensity of the rotor wake is reduced at both near and far wake, which leads to a reduction in broadband noise. Tonal noise is also reduced by mitigation of tip vortices, but tonal noise reduction is limited to a narrower range of azimuths than broadband noise due to the extinction of tip vortices. In addition, slots reduce both mean thrust and thrust fluctuations. Reduction in thrust fluctuations leads to a reduction in blade loading noise, resulting in a reduction in tonal noise.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1998년도 학술발표대회 논문집 제17권 1호
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• pp.379-382
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• 1998

이 연구는 서울말과 경상도 말의 고저형(tonal patterns)을 외래어 읽기를 통해 비교해 본 것으로, 두 방언의 고저형에 변수로 작용하는 것이 음절수, 음절 구조(폐음절/개음절), 어두 자음의 성격(phonation type) 등임을 밝혔다. 두 방언은 이런 변수의 작용을 선택적으로 받는데 유형론적으로 비성조 언어인 서울말은 음절수, 어두 자음의 성격이 고저형에 영향을 주며, 성조 언어인 경상도말은 음절수와 음절의 구조가 외래어에 있어서는 고저형 결정에 중요한 역할을 하는 것으로 드러났다.

• 음성과학
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.143-169
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• 2000

This chapter presents an overview of Korean intonational structure and proposes a revised version of K -ToBI (Korean TOnes and Break Indices), a prosodic transcription convention for Seoul Korean. In the new version of K-ToBI, a tone tier is separated into two tiers: a phonological tone tier and a phonetic tone tier. A phonological tone tier labels tones marking the prosodic structure of an utterance, and a phonetic tone tier labels individual tones of an AP and an IP conforming to the surface pitch contour. Labelling surface tonal patterns will provide us data to test the underlying tonal patterns and to build phonetic implementation rules.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 2002년도 하계학술발표대회 논문집 제21권 1호
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• pp.199-202
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 사람의 청각 모델을 기반으로 잡음에 의해 손상된 음성 신호로부터 잡음 신호의 마스킹 특성과 신호에너지의 지각(知覺)을 나타내는 임계대역(critical band)에서의 잡음 에너지에 대한 지각 패턴인 noise excitation pattern을 이용한 잡음 에너지 차감과 잡음 추정 오차에 의한 변형된 음성신호 내의 순음(tonal) 성분과 비순음(non-tonal)성분의 보정을 통해 효과적인 음성 품질의 개선을 위한 연구를 하였다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.14-20
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• 1993

본 논문에서는 주변 소음을 감소시키고 표적원의 방사음으로부터 tonal 성분을 추출하기 위한 방법으로서 잡음 정규화 기법에 대하여 연구하였다. 지금까지 알려진 기법들을 정리하였으며, ATW, 최빈치 필터등의 새로운 기법을 도입, 적용하여 그 성능을 평가하였다. 그리고 tonal 성분을 검출하기 위한 임계값 결정을 위해 오경보확률과 검출확률을 시뮬레이션을 통해 구하였다.