• 영어어문교육
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.159-175
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• 2004

This paper investigated the types of errors on English pronunciation and intelligibility of Korean EFL students, and the relationship between the pronunciation accuracy and intelligibility. Thirty one students were evaluated by six English native speakers in terms of overall intelligibility and accuracy In five areas such as nuclear stress, word stress, syllable structure, consonants and vowels. According to the findings of the study, pronunciation errors were made by the subjects more frequently In word stress than any other area of pronunciation accuracy. The Pearson correlation analysis showed that intelligibility was related with word stress, syllable structure, consonants and vowels, and the stepwise multiple regression analysis indicated that, among the above five areas of pronunciation accuracy, word stress best accounted for the intelligibility of a given sentence. In the conclusion, the importance of teaching pronunciation of in those five areas with a special focus on word stress was emphasized m terms of intelligibility.

• 음성과학
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.303-318
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• 2003

This paper attempts to investigate the tonal implementations of English stress clash, arguing that a preceding stress shifts leftward when two lexical stresses conflict across word boundaries or that H* and L* pitch accents are alternatively manifested on the stressed syllables, establishing intonational peak and valley contours. We claim that the H*/L* alternation might be a tonal strategy to avoid stress clash, and that pitch could be solely manipulated to display a rhythmic effect with maintaining lexical stress. In the experiment, we examined two-word combinations whose boundaries involve stress clash, and divided them into two categories. One has the preceding words involving a heavy syllable ahead of stress to guarantee the place for a shifting stress and the other, a light syllable, in which case stress shift is completely prevented. We analyzed the distribution of pitch accents in the word combinations, focusing on the pitch configurations in the cases where stress should not be shifted. Results show that approximately 50% of the stimuli show stress shift in the heavy syllable combinations of the preceding words; the preceding stress is moved leftward within the word. The other 50% and the light syllable combinations show various pitch accents patterns; H* and L* alternation, deaccentuation of either stressed syllable, or L-insertion between two H* pitch accents, etc. We interpret this as a rhythmic effect of tone to avoid stress clash and suggest that a true stress clash would be confined into cases without H*/L* contours.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제42호
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• pp.57-69
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• 2001

Syntactic ambiguity can be understood by context usually, especially in reading and writing. Because phonological structure including stress, intonation and phonological phenomena can be pronounced differently according to different syntactic structures, syntactic ambiguity can be solved by phonological structure in listening and speaking. The objectives of this study was to survey how Korean English teachers apply phonological structures in order to solve syntactic ambiguity. The results of this study is as follows: First, Korean English leachers applied Compound Stress Rules well, when the second word was not branched. But they did not apply Compound Stress Rules well, when the second word was branched. Second, several Korean English teachers did not apply Nuclear Stress Rules well. They usually put the strongest stress on the first word. Third Korean English teachers did not differentiate appropriate applying situation of palatalization. They applied palatalization at both the single and the separated Phonological Phrase. Fourth, Korean English teachers did not apply stress shifting when stress crash happened. Because they did not apply stress shifting, they put the strongest stress on inappropriate syllable.

• 음성과학
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.89-105
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• 2006

This study examines the phonetic realizations of English word stress to identify the influence of experiment method on experiment results. Stimuli uttered by native and Korean ESL beginners in authentic conversations are extracted to be shuffled according to their positions in utterances and information structure. Results indicate that the acoustic characteristics of English word stress are realized depending on its position in utterances. The native speakers correlate the stressed syllables in shorter duration with higher pitch and stronger intensity at sentence-final positions unlike the previous experiments and the traditional definition that stressed syllables are uttered in longer duration with higher pitch and stronger intensity; at sentence-medial positions, the native speakers correlate the stressed syllables in longer duration with higher pitch and no regularity in intensity or in shorter duration with lower pitch and intensity depending on their conversational intention. Korean ESL beginners correlate the stressed syllables in shorter duration regardless of positions in sentences with no regularity in pitch and intensity. This study, thus, shows that a different experiment method may result in different results on the phonetic realizations of English word stress.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제12권8호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2021

본 연구의 목적은 '복압성 요실금'을 키워드로 검색된 연구들의 경향과 특성을 단어 빈도를 통해 분석하고, 워드 임베딩을 사용하여 그 관계를 모델링 하고자 하였다. 의학 서지 데이터베이스인 MEDLINE에 등록되어 있는 복압성 요실금 연구 9,868개 논문들의 초록 문자 데이터를 Python 프로그램을 이용하여 추출하였다. 그런 다음 빈도 분석을 통해 10개의 키워드를 선택하였다. 키워드 관련 단어들의 유사도는 Word2Vec 머신러닝 알고리즘으로 분석하였다. 그리고, t-SNE 기법을 사용하여 단어의 위치와 거리가 시각화하였고, 이에 따라 그룹을 분류하여 이를 분석하였다. 복압성 요실금과 관련된 연구는 1980년대 이후 빠르게 증가했다. 키워드 분석을 통해 논문 초록에서 가장 많이 사용된 키워드는 '여성', '요도', '수술'로 나타났다. Word2Vec 모델링을 통해 복압성 요실금 관련 연구에서 주요 키워드들과 가장 높은 연관성을 나타내는 단어들에는 '여성', '절박', '증상' 등이 있었다. 그리고, t-SNE 기법을 통해 키워드와 관련 단어들은 복압성 요실금의 증상, 신체 기관의 해부학적 특성, 그리고 수술적 중재를 중심으로 하는 3개의 그룹으로 분류될 수 있었다. 본 연구는 초록을 구성하는 단어들의 키워드 빈도 분석 및 워드임베딩 방식을 이용하여 복압성 요실금 관련 연구들의 동향을 살펴본 최초의 연구이다. 본 연구의 결과는 향후 연구자들이 복압성 요실금 관련 연구 분야의 주제와 방향성을 선택하는 데 있어 기초자료로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 음성과학
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.173-184
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• 2002

The question of Korean rhythmic type is still a controversial issue (syllable-timed; stress-timed; word-timed). As a step toward solving the question, an experiment was carried out to examine compression effects in Korean. There has been a general belief that the increase of the number of following or preceding syllables causes compression of a vowel (or syllable) in many languages, and a marked anticipatory compression effect can be especially indicative of stress timing. The purpose of this research, therefore, was to obtain some evidence to determine whether or not Korean is stress-timed. The durations of the target vowel/a/ of the monosyllabic word /pap/ were measured at both word and sentence level. In general, marked anticipatory and backward compression effects on the target vowel were observed across one-, two- and three-syllable words in citation form, whereas the effects were neither marked nor consistent at sentence level. These results led us to claim that Korean is not stress-timed.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.45-52
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• 2012

The purpose of this paper is to measure the first two vowel formants of the ten young female speakers from the Buckeye Corpus of Conversational Speech [1] automatically and then to analyze various potential factors that may affect the formant distribution of the eight peripheral vowels of English. The factors that were analyzed included the place of articulation, the content versus function word information, the syllabic stress information, the location in a word, the location in an utterance, the speech rate of the three consecutive words, and the word frequency in the corpus. The results indicate that the overall formant patterns of the female speakers were similar to those of earlier works. The effects of the factors on the realization of the two formants were also similar to those from the male speakers with minor differences.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.41-49
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• 2012

The purpose of this paper is to extract the vowel formants of the ten young male speakers from the Buckeye Corpus of Conversational Speech [1] and to analyze them in comparison to earlier works in terms of various phonetic factors that are expected to affect the realization of the formant distribution. The first two formant frequency values were automatically extracted with a Praat script along with such factors as the place of articulation, the content versus function word information, syllabic stress information, the location in a word, location in utterance, speech rate of three consecutive words, and the word frequency in the corpus. The results indicated that the formant patterns from the corpus were very different from those of earlier works although the overall pattern was similar and that the factors were strongly responsible for the realization of the two formants. The purpose of this paper is to extract the vowel formants of the ten young male speakers from the Buckeye Corpus of Conversational Speech [1] and to analyze them in comparison to earlier works in terms of various phonetic factors that are expected to affect the realization of the formant distribution. The first two formant frequency values were automatically extracted with a Praat script along with such factors as the place of articulation, the content versus function word information, the syllabic stress information, the location in a word, the location in an utterance, the speech rate of the three consecutive words, and the word frequency in the corpus. The result indicated that the formant patterns from the corpus were very different from those of earlier works although the overall pattern was similar and that the factors were strongly responsible for the realization of the two formants.

• 음성과학
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.77-88
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• 2002

Acoustical correlates of stress can be classified as duration, intensity and fundamental frequency. This study examined the acoustical differences in the first two syllables of stressed English words produced by ten American and Korean speakers. The Korean subjects scored very high on the TOEFL. They read at a normal speed a fable from which the acoustical parameters of eight words were analyzed. In order to make the data comparison meaningful, each parameter was collected at 100 dynamic time points proportional to the total duration of the two syllables. Then the ratio of the parameter sum of the first rime to that of the second rime was calculated to determine the relative prominence of the syllables. Results showed that the durations of the first two syllables were almost comparable between the Americans and Koreans. However, statistically significant differences showed up in the diphthong pronunciations and in the words with the second syllable stressed. Also, remarkably high r-squared values were found between pairs of the three acoustical parameters, which suggests that either one or a combination of two or more parameters may account for the prominence of a syllable within a word.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.430-437
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• 2013

본 연구는 정상 청력인에서 시간 변화 (i.e., 압축과 확장)와 선택적 단어 강조법이 문장인지도에 영향을 미칠수 있는지를 평가하였다. 정상 청력을 지닌 성인 20명이 연구에 참여 하였다. 자극음으로 한국표준 일반용 문장표(KS-SL-A)가 사용되었고, 문법적으로는 적절하지만 의미론적으로는 변칙적이고 무의미하게 재구성한 후, 여성 화자에 의해 녹음하였다. 시간 변화는 7단계 (e.g., ${\pm}60%$, ${\pm}40%$, ${\pm}20%$, 0 %)의 압축 및 확장으로 조절하였다. 이 때 선택적 단어 강조법 (i.e., 문장 내에서 특정 단어를 강조)의 효과를 보기 위하여 모든 대상자들에게 2주 간격으로 두 번 검사를 시행하였다. 연구 결과 1) 시간 변화에 따른 문장인지도 정반응률은 60 % 압축 조건에서만 통계적으로 유의하게 낮았다. 2) 선택적 단어의 강조 유무에 따른 문장인지도의 정반응률은 유의한 차이가 없었다. 그러나 6 ~ 7개의 어절로 이루어진 장문장의 자극음을 사용할 경우, 40 % 압축 조건에서 단어가 +6 dB 강조되었을 때, 유의하게 정반응률이 향상되었다. 3) 성별에 따른 문장인지도의 정반응률은 유의한 차이가 없었다. 본 연구의 결과는 조금 빠른 시간 압축과 선택적 단어 강조법을 함께 사용했을 때가 시간 확장만 사용하였을 때보다 문장을 이해하는데 더 효과적임을 시사하고 있다. 그러나 후속 연구에 의한 표준화 자료가 동반되어야 하겠다.