공지사항

2015년도 2학기 실험음성학연구회를 예년과 마찬가지로 9월, 10월, 그리고 12월까지 매월 3번째주 토요일에 가질 예정입니다. 11월은 한국음성학회 국제학술대회로 인해 실험음성학연구회 모임을 가지지 않을 예정입니다. 오는 2학기에는 음성학으로 미국과 유럽에서 학위를 마치고 최근에 귀국하신 세 분의 박사님들을 초청하여 박사학위 논문으로 강독을 할 예정입니다. 그리고 겨울방학 중에는 지난 7월로 계획되었다가 메르스로 무산된 실험음성학 워크샵을 1박 2일로 준비할 예정입니다. 많은 관심과 참여를 바라겠습니다.

먼저 2학기 강독회의 첫 강독으로 9월 강독회가 아래와 같이 열릴 예정이니, 많은 회원분들께서 참여하셔서 유익한 정보를 공유할 수 있는 시간을 가졌으면 합니다.

◈ 실험음성학연구회 9월 강독회 발표

· 장소: 대우연구재단 세미나 B실

· 일시: 2015년 9월 19일(토요일) 10:30-1:00

<발표자>: 이고운(연세대)

<발표제목>: Production and perception of Korean and English word-level prominence by Korean speakers

<개요>

Prominence refers to the relative emphasis that may be given to syllables in a word or words in a phrase. Korean has been claimed to have both word-level (Ko, 2013) and phrase-level (Jun, 1996) prominence. However, given that younger Korean speakers have lost duration as the main cue for expressing word-level prominence (Magen & Blumstein, 1993), it is not clear if and how younger Korean speakers produce or perceive word-level prominence. Thus, the first goal of this study is to examine how younger Korean speakers produce (Experiment 1) and perceive (Experiment 2) word-level prominence, if it exists. The second goal of the study is to investigate which L1 acoustic correlates/cues Korean learners use to produce (Experiment 3) and perceive (Experiment 4) English lexical stress, and whether they can acquire a cue that does not exist in their L1.

In Experiment 1, we found that duration and intensity systematically distinguish stress pairs for the older speakers at the phrase level, but not in isolated words. However, Experiment 2 revealed that, only in the first syllable, both older and younger Korean listeners weighted the duration cue most heavily. The findings of these two experiments suggest that that Korean does not have word-level prominence, but does have a phonemic vowel length distinction. When examining the production of English word-level prominence (Experiment 3) by Korean L2 learners of English, Korean listeners were able to use all suprasegmental cues (e.g., F0, duration, and intensity) in expressing English lexical stress, but failed to use segmental cues (e.g., vowel reduction). However, Experiment 4 revealed that, similar to native Englis h listeners, Korean learners weighted suprasegmental cues more heavily than suprasegmental cues in identifying English stress pairs. These results suggest that acquisition of L2 phonetic category is a prerequisite to accurate perception, as suggested by the Speech Learning Model (Flege, 1995).

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