The study investigates the acoustic features of eight Korean monophthongs produced by Jeju Korean speakers in their 20s as a function of speaker gender. For the acoustic analysis, vowel duration, F0, and the first three formants (F1, F2, F3) were measured using the PRAAT. The study results showed that the main effects of vowel and speaker gender on duration indicated that male speakers had a longer duration than females, and for the vowel quality, the vowel /아/ had the longest duration while the vowel /으/ had the shortest. As for the main effect on F0, the female speakers had a higher F0 than male speakers. However, no main effect of vowels on F0 was found for either gender. With regard to the first three formants, main effects of vowel and gender on F1, F2, F3 were observed. On the sound change, Jeju Korean speakers made a distinction between the two vowels /에/ and /애/, revealing that the vowel /애/ was pronounced in a higher and more fronted tongue position than the vowel /에/ for the both genders. For the vowels /우, 오, 으/, it was demonstrated that Jeju Korean has been undergoing a sound change, indicating that the vowel /오/ was raised and the vowel /우/ was fronted, and subsequently, the vowel /으/ was fronted, as in Seoul Korean. For the vowel classification, it was suggested that in addition to F1 and F2, F3 and duration could be used as additional acoustic parameters rather than F0 in Jeju Korean.
목차
Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Literature Review 3. Methodology 3.1 Participants 3.2 Speech Stimuli and Recording Procedure 3.3 Acoustic Measurement Procedures 4. Results and Discussions 4.1 Duration 4.2 Fundamental Frequency (F0) 4.3 Formant Frequencies 4.4 Vowel space in the F1/F2 Plane 4.5 Vowel classification 5. Conclusions References
한국언어연구학회 [The Korean Association of Language Studies]
설립연도
1996
분야
인문학>언어학
소개
한국언어연구학회는 언어학과 언어교육 분야의 연구를 통하하여 학문의 질적 향상과 국내외 회원 및 학회간의 학술 교류와 친목을 도모한다. 이를 위해 학술 연구 발표회, 강연회, 강습회를 개최하고, 정기학회지, 연구보고서, 서적 등을 간행하며, 그 밖에 지역사회에 필요한 사업과 연구 활동을 수행하는데 중점을 두고 있다.