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No Exception in the English Lexicon: A Reply to Hammond (1999)

  • Kim, Hyo-Young
    • Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.53-76
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    • 2002
  • This paper aims to review Hammond's (1999) analysis of English word stress and propose an alternative by exploring two questions: Why English words display flexible stress patterns and what are the conditions all English words have to obey. As answers to the questions I propose an invisible suffix after words with final stress, foot structures with two levels, and four constraints, two of them are attained by revision of Hammond's. As long as words satisfy the constraints, more than one foot structures are allowed. That is why the English lexicon displays flexibility.

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The Effect of Strong Syllables on Lexical Segmentation in English Continuous Speech by Korean Speakers (강음절이 한국어 화자의 영어 연속 음성의 어휘 분절에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Sunmi;Nam, Kichun
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.43-51
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    • 2013
  • English native listeners have a tendency to treat strong syllables in a speech stream as the potential initial syllables of new words, since the majority of lexical words in English have a word-initial stress. The current study investigates whether Korean (L1) - English (L2) late bilinguals perceive strong syllables in English continuous speech as word onsets, as English native listeners do. In Experiment 1, word-spotting was slower when the word-initial syllable was strong, indicating that Korean listeners do not perceive strong syllables as word onsets. Experiment 2 was conducted in order to avoid any possibilities that the results of Experiment 1 may be due to the strong-initial targets themselves used in Experiment 1 being slower to recognize than the weak-initial targets. We employed the gating paradigm in Experiment 2, and measured the Isolation Point (IP, the point at which participants correctly identify a word without subsequently changing their minds) and the Recognition Point (RP, the point at which participants correctly identify the target with 85% or greater confidence) for the targets excised from the non-words in the two conditions of Experiment 1. Both the mean IPs and the mean RPs were significantly earlier for the strong-initial targets, which means that the results of Experiment 1 reflect the difficulty of segmentation when the initial syllable of words was strong. These results are consistent with Kim & Nam (2011), indicating that strong syllables are not perceived as word onsets for Korean listeners and interfere with lexical segmentation in English running speech.

Variations of Catecholamine Contents in Rat Urine by Environmental Stress (환경 Stress에 의한 횐쥐뇨중 catecholamine의 변화)

  • 김형석
    • Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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    • v.3 no.3_4
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    • pp.9-15
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    • 1988
  • The word of stress crime from Latin language as stringere and it was used in medical fields from 1935. According to Selye, all the biological bodies reveal physilolgical changes when some stimulation exceed normal levels, and consequently the pituitary gland and adrenal systems are activated. Jacob expressed that stress is the loss of homeostasis by physical, chemical, and emotional stimulation. When biological organisms receive extreme stress the amount of catecholamine excretion are increase. Author investigated the catecholamine contents in rat urine after giving the low temperature stress, noise stress, and water immersion stress. The 24 hours rat urine was collected by adding 1 ml 6 N-HCl and the sample is passed through Bio-Rex 70 samples treatment column to extract catecholamine and detected the catecholamine with HPLC-fluorescence detetor. The highest epinephrine concentration was 67.14 ng in water immersion stress condition and the dopamine concentration of 221.37 ng was shown in the low temperature stress condition.

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Comparison of Word Level Stress Features between Korean, English and the Interlanguage of Korean Learners of English (영어 학습자의 중간 언어 단어 수준 강세 비교)

  • Lee, Yunhyun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.20 no.11
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    • pp.378-390
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    • 2020
  • English stress plays such a critical role in understanding spoken English words that its misplacement can lead to a breakdown of communication. Korean learners of English, whose native language is known to lack this feature, are expected to have some difficulty acquiring this English prosodic system. This study explored how Korean is different from English in manifesting prominence at the word level and how the interlanguage of Korean learners of English is dissimilar to both languages in that regard. Four polysyllabic English loanwords in Korean and their English source words were used as stimuli. Ten native English speakers read the English source words while ten Korean learners of English read the English loan words first and then the English source words. The analysis of 120 speech samples revealed that Korean words did not have any salient syllable realized by all stress features: duration, amplitude, and F0. On the contrary, English words had syllables with relative prominence, which was consistently manifested by all the features. Interestingly, in realizing English stress, the interlanguage of the Korean English learners bore more resemblance to that of English than that of their native language.

A Review of Timing Factors in Speech

  • Yun, Il-Sung
    • Speech Sciences
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.87-98
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    • 2000
  • Timing in speech is determined by many factors. In this paper, we introduce and discuss some factors that have generally been regarded as important in speech timing. They include stress, syllable structure, consonant insertion or deletion, tempo, lengthening at clause, phrase and word boundaries, preconsonantal vowel shortening, and compensation between segments or within phonological units (e.g., word, foot), compression due to the increase of syllables in word or foot level, etc. and each of them may playa crucial role in the structuring of speech timing in a language. But some of these timing factors must interact with each other rather than be independent and the effects of each factor on speech timing will vary from language to language. On the other hand, there could well be many other factors unknown so far. Finding out and investigating new timing factors and reinterpreting the already-known timing factors should enhance our understanding of timing structures in a given language or languages.

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A Study on the Voice Onset Time of English Voiceless Stops in the Buckeye Corpus (벅아이 코퍼스를 이용한 영어 무성파열음의 VOT 연구)

  • Yoon, Kyu-Chul
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.33-40
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this paper is to investigate the voice onset time (VOT) of the English voiceless stops [p, t, k] found in the Buckeye Corpus of Conversational Speech [1]. Three young female speakers were chosen for this study and their VOT values were semi-automatically extracted along with other factors. The factors used for the analysis were place of articulation, location in word, syllabic stress, content word or not, word frequency calculated from the corpus, and the speech rate expressed in syllables per second. Results showed that, for the three places of articulation of each speaker, all the factors had a statistically significant effect on the VOT values. This paper has significance in that the materials used for the analysis were from a corpus of spontaneous natural English speech.

Stress Combination Index Processing Algorithm

  • Han, Seung-Heon;Kim, Young-Kil
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.727-731
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    • 2007
  • All of us has an experience of using the word 'stress'. During the life, we are influenced with various physical and spiritual pressure, complication, discouragement and shortage. That much, stress exists everywhere and everytime around us. It is not easy to examine how much stress you are getting. You can examine only through the health institutions. The examining method is constituted with the psychological method and physiological method, but these methods have the low accuracy about stress index because of disproportion of subjectivity, objectivity and scientific. Consequently, this thesis suggests the algorithms of processing index to help easing stress which is able to examine personally and indexing with the mixing of results of psychological and physiological methods.

Homepage on the Purchase Attributes of Food Service Products (미니홈피를 통한 구전 커뮤니케이션이 외식상품 구매 속성에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Ki-Young;Kim, Ji-Eung
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.86-98
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    • 2008
  • This study aims at examining the effect of word-of-mouth communication through mini homepage on purchase attributes and mapping out a marketing strategy based on this. For this, it made an analysis of the communication level with 302 mini homepage users. The result showed that the communication level of information exchange has a positive effect on the purchase experience of food service products significantly, showing that the higher its level is, the more frequent its experience is. And it showed that the communication level of relationship retention has a negative effect on the purchase experience of food service products significantly, showing that the higher its level is, the less frequent its experience is. These results demonstrated the utility that can increase word-of-mouth communications through information exchange and relationship retention, given that they are used with the object based on the kinship of information exchange and relationship retention as word-of-mouth communications, and that they lay stress on the connection with other people in the mini homepage.

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Effect That Type Gets in Consumer Communication : Product Participation Level and Internet Word-of-mouth -Laying stress on purchase review of product and Internet shopping mall by FCB Model- (제품 관여수준과 인터넷 구전메시지 유형이 소비자 커뮤니케이션에 미치는 영향 -FCB 모델에 따른 제품과 인터넷 쇼핑몰의 구매 댓글을 중심으로-)

  • Chin, Hong-Kun;Lee, Eun-Joo
    • Management & Information Systems Review
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    • v.22
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    • pp.85-115
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    • 2007
  • Following is discovered in this study by some. First, attribute(product/non- product) of that truth that get through experiment of this study is WOM deduced result that have statistical meaning in dependent variable which is public trust only in this study. Specially, information by word of mouth type received High positive response more with non-product information by word of mouth attribute than the product attribute in all experiment products that is parted according to involvement. Consumer's response by involvement level of product can affect for site attitude, public trust, and intention to purchase by second. For example, consumer's site attitude has induced the most positive response, and can confirm positive response of High consumer most in that involvement sensitivity product in that participation reason type product and could confirm response that is the most positive in that involvement reason product even if there is for intention to purchase. Result of this study is grasped that have High mean value relatively in site attitude, product attitude, information by word of mouth effect, public trust, brand attitude, purchase intention etc. generally that product involvement and information by word of mouth attribute are interrelation by third. This can change fairly data processing process according to consumer's Involvement Level, behavior deterministic process, consumer's action with attitude formation process, and involvement for products. High occasion than is low incline more efforts in information retrieval and is discreet result such as study finding of produce.

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An Acoustic Study of English Sentence Stress and Rhythm Produced by Korean Speakers

  • Kim, Ok-Young
    • Speech Sciences
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.121-135
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this paper is to examine how Korean speakers realize English stress and rhythm at the sentence level, and investigate what different acoustic characteristics of English sentence stress and rhythm Korean speakers have, compared with those of American English speakers. Stressed words in the sentence were analyzed in terms of duration, fundamental frequency, and intensity of the stressed vowel in the word with neutral stress and with emphatic stress, respectively. According to the results, when the words had emphatic stress, both Koreans' and Americans' F0 and intensity of the stressed vowel were higher than those with neutral stress. Korean speakers of English realized the sentence stress with shorter vowel duration and higher F0 than American English speakers when the words had emphatic stress. The analysis of the timing of the sentence with increased unstressed syllables showed that both Americans and Koreans produced the sentence with longer duration as the number of unstressed syllables increased. However, the duration of unstressed syllables between stressed syllables by Koreans was longer than that by Americans. Americans seemed to produce unstressed syllables between stressed syllables faster than Koreans for regular intervals of stressed syllables. This analysis implies that if there are more unstressed syllables between stressed syllables, Koreans might produce unstressed syllables and the whole sentence with longer duration.

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