• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.11-22
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• 2010

The present study attempts to investigate declination in Korean and its relevant aspects to the length of utterance, the clause boundary, and focus. More specifically, I examine the relation of declination with the length of utterance, the declination reset at the clause boundary, and the effect of focus on declination. Results showed that the length of utterance had no relation with the first and last pitch values of the utterance but that they were consistent regardless of the length of utterance. However, the declination slope changed to be relatively gentle from the fourth accentual phrase to the end of the whole intonational phrase. There was a reset of declination in such a way that the first pitch in the second phrase was always lower than that of the first phrase, but the first pitch in the third phrase was not always lower than that of the second phrase when the whole utterance was composed of three phrases. Finally, the pitch values of the focusing words decreased as their position went back in a sentence. One declination line was formed in the case of focused utterance, but in the case of an utterance that contained a clause boundary, a new declination line was formed at the start of each new clause. These findings can be applied to developing a Korean speech synthesizer that contains natural prosody; they can be also utilized for teaching Korean prosody.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.9-17
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• 2017

The current study examined speech rate and its variance in spontaneous Seoul Korean speech. The current study focused on factors affecting the variance of speech rate such as utterance length, individual speakers, and gender. The results revealed that, first, utterance length has a significant influence on speech rate. Longer utterances were spoken at a faster rate. Second, regarding the effect of utterance length, individual speakers differed significantly in their speaking rate. The variation between speakers and within speakers tended to increase as utterance length increases. Third, there were speakers' gender differences, indicating that males produced considerably faster speaking rate than females. Additionally, the current study implied that non-linguistic factors in spontaneous speech can affect the variance of speakers' speaking rate.

• 한국어교육
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.345-363
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to compare the speech rate of advanced Korean(L2) learners and Korean native speakers in spontaneous utterances. Specifically, the current study investigated the difference of the two groups' speech pattern according to utterance length. Eight advanced Korean(L2) learners and eight Korean native speakers participated in this study. The data were collected by recording their conversation and physical measurements (speaking rate, articulatory rates, pause and several types of speech disfluency) were taken on extracted 120 utterances from 12 out of the 16 participants. The findings show that advanced Korean learners' speech pattern is similar to that of Koreans in the short-length utterance. However, in the long-length utterance, two groups show different speech patterns; while the articulatory rate of Korean native speakers increased in the long-length utterance, that of Korean learners decreased. This suggests that the frequency of speech disfluency factors might affect this result.

• 음성과학
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.83-95
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• 2006

This study attempts to suggest a criterion of Korean language development. For this purpose we investigated speaking rates of the spontaneous utterances produced by 144 children, aged 3 to 8. We analyzed each subject's speaking rate and its relevance with speaker's age, gender and utterance length. To determine the relative contributions of variables to the speaking rate, multiple regression was conducted. Results of this study can be summarized as follows: (1) The mean and maximum values of the speaking rate increased with the growth of age. (2) A statistically significant increase in speaking rate appeared at two-year intervals. (3) There was no significant difference between male and female groups in the speaking rate. (4) The multiple regression analysis has shown that along with the speaker's age, the utterance length(the mean number of syllables per utterance) is also important in estimating the speaking rates.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.53-64
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• 2021

요구용량 모델에 의하면 말더듬 아동의 비유창성은 외적, 내적 환경에 영향을 받아 나타나는 것으로 알려져 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 외적 환경 중 언어적인 환경(말속도, 발화길이 및 통사적 복잡성)의 변화에 따른 말더듬 아동과 일반아동의 비유창성 차이를 비교 분석하려고 한다. 연구대상은 4-6세 말더듬 아동 9명, 일반아동 9명이었다. 연구 과제로 문장 따라말하기 과제를 실시하여 말더듬 아동과 일반 아동의 비유창성 빈도를 구하였다. 두 그룹의 비유창성 차이를 분석한 결과, 발화길이를 조절했을 때 평균 말속도에서 말더듬 아동은 발화길이와 상관없이 일반 아동보다 비유창성이 더 많이 나타났다. 말속도를 조절 때 말더듬 아동은 빠른 말속도에서 일반아동보다 많은 비유창성을 보였다. 그리고 말속도와 발화길이를 조절했을 시 빠른 말속도에서 말더듬 아동은 발화길이와 상관없이 일반아동보다 높은 비유창성을 보였다. 통사적 복잡성을 조절했을 때는 복문에서 말더듬 아동이 일반아동보다 더 많은 비유창성을 보였다. 말더듬 아동은 말속도, 발화길이 그리고 통사적 복잡성에 따라 비유창성에 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 말더듬 아동은 말운동 조절 그리고 언어처리 능력이 일반아동보다 취약한 것으로 보인다. 따라서 임상에서 말더듬 아동 치료 시 치료사와 부모가 말속도와 발화길이를 아동의 수준에 맞춰 진행하는 것이 중요한 것으로 확인되었다.

• 한국어학
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• 제81권
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• pp.245-265
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to prepare the basis for a more objective evaluation of oral fluency by analyzing Korean native speaker's utterance. Traditionally, fluency evaluation tended to rely on the evaluators' experience and subjective idea. Therefore, there has been a need of setting the evaluation standard in numeric form that is easily measurable. In this study, I will analyze Korean native speaker's utterance in focus of pause. Total number of 875 pauses were extracted from the 21st Century Sejong Korean spoken corpus, and the elements before and after the pauses were annotated. From the analysis results, the pauses were divided between fluent pauses and influent pauses. If the length of fluent pauses do not exceed reasonable length of pause for native Korean speakers, there was no point reduction. On the other hand, if the influent pauses are made more frequently than the native Korean speakers, then it is subject to point reduction.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.585-591
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• 2015

구어 연구를 위한 전사 과정에서 문자로 표현된 발화를 녹음 음성에 연결해주는 작업을 레이블링이라고 한다. 기존 레이블링 도구들은 대부분 수동으로 작업이 이루어진다. 제안하는 반자동 레이블링은 자동화 모듈과 수동 조정 모듈로 구성된다. 자동화 모듈은 G.Saha 알고리즘을 활용하여 음성구간을 추출하고, 기구축된 발화텍스트의 발화 수와 발화의 길이 정보를 이용하여 발화구간을 예측한다. 본 논문에서는 기존 수동 도구의 정확성을 유지하기 위하여 자동 레이블링된 발화구간을 보정하기 위한 수동 조정 사용자 인터페이스를 제공한다. 제안하는 반자동 레이블링 알고리즘으로 구현한 도구는 기존 수동 레이블링 도구와 비교하여 작업 속도가 평균 27% 향상되었다.

• 음성과학
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• 제1권
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• pp.137-152
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• 1997

The objectives of this paper are to see how the declination is realized in the different positions/lengths of the utterance, to see if the $F_0$ value throughout the utterance changes in a predictable way, and if so, to find out the best quantitative model which fits the declination. The experiment results are as follows. First, the peak value over the utterance can be affected by the position of the peak and length of the utterance. Second, the choice of quantitative models is dependent on the different list lengths. Third, in everyone's speech, there is a baseline (the lowest $F_0$ value a speaker can use), and the $F_0$ will not fall below the baseline. Forth, the peak $F_0$ of the last word in each list shows little variation in pitch value (target $F_0$) while the number of words in the list affects the starting $F_0$ values.

• 음성과학
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.7-14
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• 2001

This study was done to find out the difference in vowel length between the English language produced by American soldiers and KATUSA soldiers. Though English pronunciation by Koreans shows different features in many ways, I focused on English vowel length of KATUSA soldiers. I wanted to know if KATUSA soldiers, when compared with American soldiers, showed a foreign accent when they produced English diphthongs. The reason I wanted to deal with English diphthongs is that most Koreans have difficulty in pronouncing them since they do not understand the concept of diphthongs. Therefore I selected five English diphthongs, /aI/, cI/, /au/, /eI/, /ou,/as/ the experimental object, and I tried to find out the foreign accent of them. In this study I also tried to find out the vowel lengths in relation to their utterance positions. I investigated the difference of the English diphthong length between American and KATUSA soldiers using information gathered from experimental results.

• 음성과학
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.215-220
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• 2001

This study was done to find out the difference in vowel length between English produced by Americans and KATUSA soldiers. Though English pronunciation by Koreans shows different features in many ways, I focused on English vowel length of KATUSA soldiers. I wanted to know if English low vowels show a foreign accent by comparing vowel lengths in English produced by Americans and KATUSA soldiers. The reason I wanted to deal with English low vowels is that most Koreans have difficulty in pronouncing them. Therefore I selected three English low vowels, /$\{\ae}$, /c/, and/$\alpha$/, as the experimental object, and I tried to find out the foreign accent of them. In this study, I also tried to find out the vowel lengths in relation to their utterance positions and see the foreign accent of English low vowels. I investigated the difference of the English low vowels lengths between Americans and KATUSA soldiers using information gathered from experimental results.