• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.157-162
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• 2015

This study reports on the effective way of displaying dynamic formant information on F1-F2 space. Conventional ways of F1-F2 space (different name of vowel triangle or vowel rectangle) have been used for investigating vowel characteristics of a speaker or a language based on statistics of the F1 and F2 values, which were computed by spectral envelope search method. Those methods were dealing mainly with the static information of the formants, not the changes of the formant values (i.e. dynamic information). So a better way of investigating dynamic informations from the formant values of speech signal is suggested so that more convenient and detailed investigation of the dynamic changes can be achieved on F1-F2 space. Suggested method used visualization of static and dynamic information in overlapped way to be able to observe the change of the formant information easily. Finally some examples of the implemented display on some cases of the continuous vowels are shown to prove the usefulness of suggested method.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2003년도 5월 학술대회지
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• pp.48-51
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• 2003

The purpose of this paper is to research the realization of /h/ between sonorant sounds. For this purpose, we analyze speech of 5 people using standard Korean. As a result, we can find that the possibility of deletion of /h/ is increasing, when speech rate is high, the AP has more syllables, and /h/ is far from the AP-initial. While the position of AP or IP has no relation to realization of /h/. The deletion of /h/ is more often in this order. Followed segments: lateral>nasal>vowel, following segments: vowel>glide. And there is no change on duration of following vowel after /h/ deletion.

• 음성과학
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• 제3권
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• pp.83-92
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• 1998

Vowels are classified by vocal tract shapes. These shapes form constriction points along the tract, which have an influence on such vocal tract resonance as $F_l,\;F_2,\;F_3$, and so on. This study reviews the perturbation theory of the tract and determines the corresponding formant frequencies from modified vocal tracts using vocal tract area function. Then, formant variation is observed from the theory. Finally, each set of $F_l,\;F_2,\;and\;F_3$ frequency is input to a speech synthesis software to make a vowel sound. Auditory impression of each sound without any modification of its vocal tract shape is almost the same as the corresponding phonetic symbol. Formant frequencies of $F_l,\;F_2,\;F_3$ vary according to the perturbation theory. Generally, constriction along the node causes formant values to decrease while constriction along the anti-node cause it to increase. Vocal tracts modified by more than $3\;cm^2$ change vowel qualities of /a/ and /i/ into those of f /v/ and /$\varepsilon$/, respectively. This study will be helpful in simulating sounds from modified vocal tracts before any operation. Further studies are desirable to compare vocal tract shapes of various languages and their sounds together.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.73-79
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• 2021

본 연구에서는 노화에 따른 발화 시 입술 움직임의 변화를 알아보고자 하였다. 연구대상으로 평균 69세의 노인 여성 15명과 평균 22세의 젊은 여성 15명을 선정하였다. 입술 움직임을 측정하기 위해 이중모음 발화시 입술 움직임을 녹화하여 스틸 이미지로 저장한 다음 입술의 움직임이 최소인 부분과 최대한 길이를 영상분석 소프트웨어를 이용하여 pixel 단위로 수작업으로 분석하여 비교하였다. 임상적 활용성을 위해 자동화 알고리즘을 적용하여 소프트웨어를 제작했으며 수작업의 결과와 비교하였다. 연구결과 노년층의 경우 청년층에 비해 이중모음 과제에서 입술의 가로 및 세로의 길이 범위가 작은 것을 알 수 있었다. 수작업과 자동화 방법의 상관관계를 측정한 결과 강한 정적 상관관계가 나타나 두 방법 모두 입술 윤곽 추출 시 유용함을 알 수 있었다. 이상의 결과를 바탕으로 노화가 진행됨에 따라 발화 시 입술의 범위가 작아지는 것을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 노화가 진행되기 전 간단하게 입술의 움직임을 측정하여 본인의 상태를 모니터링하고 입술 범위를 유지할 수 있는 운동을 실시한다면 노화로 인한 발음 문제를 예방할 수 있을 것이다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.21-29
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• 2023

이 논문은 현대 한국어 용언활용에서 모음조화 양상에서 보이는 변이(조화형과 비조화형의 공존)가 어떤 언어 내적/외적 변수들에 의해 통제되고 있는지 확인하여 그 변화의 발동과 전파 과정을 설명하려는 연구이다. 이를 위하여 국립국어원 발행 일상 대화 음성 말뭉치를 활용하여 42개 어간의 조화형 및 비조화형을 검색한 후 음운/형태적 특성 및 사회언어학적 특성에 따른 효과를 검증하였다. 그 결과 전반적으로 비조화형의 비율이 1% 미만으로 매우 낮게 나타났으며 대부분은 /ㅏ/-모음 어간이 단모음 종결 어미와 결합한 사례임을 확인하였다. 다만 기존 연구들에서 거의 보이지 않던 연결 어미나 선어말 어미의 경우에도 비조화형이 소수 나타났다. 말뭉치에서 발견된 /ㅗ/-모음 어간의 비조화형을 자료로 삼아 청취실험을 실시하여 비조화형의 발동이 음운 감쇄나 과소 실현에 의해 일어났을 가능성을 보였다. 다만 전파되는 과정에는 모음의 변별도나 형태적 분석과 같은 인지적 관점에서의 설명이 더 나음을 주장한다. 결과적으로 현대 한국어의 모음조화 변이 및 변화는는 조음적/인지적 요인이 복합적으로 작용되었다고 본다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.2203-2208
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• 2011

턱관절의 물리치료를 통한 훈련으로 모음 조음에 관여하는 구강 공명강을 증가시켜, 턱관절의 정상적인 발성패턴을 유지하도록 하여 턱관절장애 환자의 모음의 음향학적 특성 변화를 보고자 하였다. 연구 대상은 턱관절장애로 진단 받은 3명의 20~30대 성인 남자를 대상으로 하였다. 실험방법은 대상자간 중다기초선 설계를 이용하여 기초선 단계, 치료 단계, 유지 단계로 진행하였다. 치료는 한 회기를 30분으로 하여 주 3회 실시하였고 3회기를 한 평가단위로 5회의 중간평가를 실시하였다. 평가방법은 Praat 음성 분석프로그램을 이용하여 /ㅏ/ 모음의 연장 발성에 대한 제 1포먼트 주파수(F1), 제 2포먼트 주파수(F2) 그리고 기본주파수(F0)를 분석하였다. 물리치료를 통한 훈련 프로그램을 실시한 결과 턱관절장애 환자의 제 1포먼트 주파수(F1), 제 2포먼트 주파수(F2) 그리고 기본주파수(F0)는 치료 전 보다 증가하는 변화를 보였고, 이는 모음의 개구도와 관계된 제 1 포먼트 주파수(F1) 뿐만 아니라 모음의 전후설, 성대의 움직임과 관련이 있는 제 2포먼트 주파수(F2) 그리고 기본주파수(F0)의 변화도 함께 보임으로써 턱관절과 모음 및 음성 산출의 연관성을 보여주었다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.109-119
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• 2014

This article represents a first step in a large study aimed at elucidating the relationship between production and perception involved in sound change of /o/ in (Seoul) Korean. In this paper we present the results of a production study and a perception experiment. For the production study we examined vowel production data of 20 young adult speakers, measuring the first and second formants, then conducted a discriminant analysis based on those values. In terms of their F1-F2 values, the distribution of /o/ and /u/ were close, and even overlapping in some circumstances, which is consistent with the literature. This tendency was more apparent among the female speakers than the males. Moreover, with the females' distributions, /o/ was frequently categorized as /u/, suggesting that the direction of the sound change is indeed increasing from /o/ to /u/. Next, to investigate the effects of this proximity on perception, we used the production data of five randomly selected speakers from the production study as stimuli for a perception experiment in which 21 young adult native speakers of (Seoul) Korean performed a vowel identification task and provided a Goodness rating on a 5-point scale. We found that while rates of correctness were high, when these correctness scores were weighted by the Goodness rating, these "weighted correctness" scores were lower in some cases, indicating a degree of confusion in distinguishing between the two vowels.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.28-38
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• 2004

The Hun-Min-Jeong-Eum(訓民正音) has been created under the political purpose that is to unite politics and cultures through a philosophical harmony of the confucianism as well as the Buddhism under the periodical circumstance that includes the change of a dynasty and a revolution in culture. The creating work has been greatly affected by the theoretical divination, that is the confucian ideas of North-Song dynasty which has been highly elaborated in those days. The shape of the characters of the Hun-Min-Jeong-Eum(訓民正音) has been influenced by the ancient letters existing at the time (especially Ga-Rim-To 加臨多), it has been throughly readjusted and recreated based on the philosophy. The consonant uses the Three-Pillars(三才)(ㅇ, ㅁ, △) in the style of the five elements and each velar-lingual-labial-dental-guttural sounds (牙舌脣齒喉音) is applicable to five elements also a 'ㅇ' is equivalent to the heaven, a 'ㅁ' to the earth. a '△' to the man. The vowel uses the five elements of ㅗ(water). ㅏ(wood), ㅜ(fire), ㅓ(metal), ㆍ(five-soil), ─(ten-soil) in the style of the Three-Pillars(三才) of ㆍ, ㅡ, ㅣ and the first created letters(初出字), and the secondary created letters(再出字) each can be attached to the eight trigrams(八卦). The consonant has 17 letters and the vowel has 11 letters, therefore the total number of the letters is 28. and those are equivalent to the 28 constellation(二十八宿) of the astronomy. Contrary to the underlying principle that has been applied during the time of the creation of the letters, when the consonant and the vowel are used, the consonant refers to the heaven (天), and the vowel refers to the earth(地). a consonant take a part in making a point on the starting place of the pronounce, a vowel take a part in the keeping the energy to the end.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.171-184
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• 2013

This study investigated the devoicing rate of Japanese high vowels, focusing on regional and generational differences by acoustically analyzing vowels from two large speech databases. The first speech database used in this study was collected between 1986 and 1988 from 41 areas (prefectures) which included 607 participants (299 high school students and 308 their grandparents). The second was taken from a 2006-2007 collection from seven areas as a follow-up investigation to the first database consisting of 463 participants ranging in age from 8-90 year olds. The results revealed there is a generational as well as regional difference in the devoicing rate in almost all areas. Based on those results, a new distribution map reflecting a current devoicing rate of the younger generation was presented. Furthermore, by comparing the two data sets, this study confirmed age difference in the devoicing rate is not age-grading but a sound change in progress. This study discusses the social factors for changes in the devoicing rate of some areas and then applies the devoicing rate of five areas to an S-curve model to predict the future devoicing rate.

• 대한한방내과학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.413-420
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• 2008

Objective : To investigate the therapeutic effect of scalp acupuncture on dysarthria after stroke. Methods : A-B model in single subject research. The experimental group of 7 members received scalp acupuncture and the control group of 5 nothing for dysarthria itself. Five single vowels were recorded by voice recorder and measured for 1st & 2nd formant. By the formants, a vowel space was made according to each one of the patients. Praat program was used for evaluation. Results : 4 cases in the experimental group showed significant change and just 1 case of the none-operated group got better. Conclusion : In this study, it's proven that acupuncture treatment might have positive efficacy on dysarthria cases. At this moment, more clinical reports are needed for objective oriental medical study.