Vowels and Consonants

Shin, Jiyoung

doi:10.1002/9781118371008.ch1

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“…Shin also reports H-W. Choi (2002)'s findings that only a very small proportion (less than 4%) of 210 speakers of Standard Korean aged twenty-one to seventy-nine pronounce what is written ㅚ in Korean as monophthongal [ö]. Shin (2015) also mentions that H-W. Choi (2002) indicates that /e/ and /ɛ/ have become indistinguishable in all age groups. Acoustic studies by Hwang and Moon (2005), Jang andShin (2006), andMoon (2007) all confirm the merger of /e/ and /ɛ/ .…”

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Phonology: An Overview

Kim-Renaud¹

2022

The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics

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Phonology: An Overview

Kim-Renaud¹

2022

The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics

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“…Standard Korean is considered to have seven monophthongs /i, ε, m , u, 2, A, o/ (Shin, 2015). Due to Standard Korean lacking /i/-/I/ and /ε/-/ae/ contrasts, Korean speakers experience difficulties in the production and perception of these English contrasts, which have been extensively studied (Flege et al, 1997;Tsukada et al, 2005;Baker and Trofimovich, 2006;Baker et al, 2008;Kim et al, 2018;Song and Eckman, 2019).…”

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Interactions between voice-activated AI assistants and human speakers and their implications for second-language acquisition

Song

Pycha²,

Culleton³

2022

Front. Commun.

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Voice-activated artificially intelligent (voice-AI) assistants, such as Alexa, are remarkably effective at processing spoken commands by native speakers. What happens when the command is produced by an L2 speaker? In the current study, we focused on Korean-speaking L2 learners of English, and we asked (a) whether Alexa could recognize intended productions of two vowel contrasts, /i/ vs. /ɪ/ and /æ/ vs. /ε/, that occur in English but not in Korean, and (b) whether L2 talkers would make clear-speech adjustments when Alexa misrecognized their intended productions. L2 talkers (n = 10) and native English (n = 10) controls asked Alexa to spell out words. Targets were words that formed minimal vowel pairs, e.g., beat-bit, pet-pat. Results showed that Alexa achieved a 55% accuracy rate with L2 productions, compared to 98% for native productions. When Alexa misrecognized an intended production (e.g., spelling P-E-T when the speaker intended pat), L2 talkers adjusted their subsequent production attempts by altering the duration, F1 and F2 of individual vowels (except for /ε/), as well as increasing vowel duration difference between contrasting vowels. These results have implications for theories of speech adaptation, and specifically for our understanding of L2 speech modifications oriented to voice-AI devices.

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“…The phonological nature of lateral approximant /l/ in Korean has been widely discussed. Phonologically, it is known that Korean has one liquid sound /l/ which, phonetically, either remains as a lateral [l] or alters to a non-lateral [ɾ] (Shin 2015). This devious variety is suggested to depend on where the sounds appear within a syllable.…”

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An Acoustic Study of the Word-final Lateral Approximant in Korea

Ahn¹

2017

Lang. Res.

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The phonological representation of the Korean lateral has been widely discussed while less attention has been paid to the phonetic realizations of the sound. In the present study, we examine the static and dynamic properties of the Korean lateral from a production study and we measure the duration, the three formants and the time-normalized trajectories. Based on the results of a production study, it was found that (i) the duration of the lateral approximant in Korean is constant irrespective of the preceding vowel contexts, that (ii) the three formants of the lateral are severely influenced by the preceding contexts, and that (iii) the initial part of the lateral articulation share similar acoustic properties with the preceding vowels, but as the articulation continues, it becomes unaffected by the vowels.

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Vowels and Consonants

Cited by 34 publications

References 14 publications

Phonology: An Overview

Phonology: An Overview

Interactions between voice-activated AI assistants and human speakers and their implications for second-language acquisition

An Acoustic Study of the Word-final Lateral Approximant in Korea

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