This study investigates how Koreans identify the English /s/ sound. S. Kim(1999) showed that Koreans relied on the friction duration of the English /s/ when they identified English /sa/; they identified the English /sa/ as Korean /sa/ when the English /s/ had short friction, whereas they identified the English /sa/ as Korean /s*a/ when the English /s/ had long friction. I conducted the same experiment and found that Koreans did not rely on the friction duration of English /s/; they identified the English /sa/ as Korean /s*a/ but not as Korean /sa/ regardless of the friction duration. This contradicts her finding. (Korea Nazarene University)
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Abstract I. Introduction 1.1 Previous Research 1.2 Present Study II. Perception Experiment 2.1 Expected Findings 2.2 Hypothesis 2.3 Methods III. Results and Discussion IV. Conclusion Works Cited