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A foreigner of international marriage increase in Korea. Due to cultural differences and linguistic problems, there is a lot of difficulties in communication. Marriage migrant women get stressed a stress in culture adjustment, and decreased the quality of life. The total sample was composed of 81 members of multicultural family. The results of hypothesis testings are as follows: Communication of multicultural family has significantly decrease stress in culture adjustment, and stress in culture adjustment has significantly decrease quality of life. But communication of multicultural family has significantly increase quality of life. Lastly, stress in culture adjustment mediates between communication of multicultural family and quality of life.

This study analyzed the values of VOT of Korean stops in two groups and surveyed the characteristics of Vietnamese migrant females’ pronunciation of Korean stops. Thirteen Vietnamese migrant females and thirteen Korean females participated to this study. The speech samples were composed by monosyllabic Korean stops following vowels (/a/, /i/ and /u/). All speech samples were collected and analyzed by Praat program. As for the average of the VOT values according to the manner of articulation, the aspirated stops were the longest in both groups. However, VOT of aspirated and lenis stops for Korean females was longer than those for Vietnamese migrant females. VOT of glottalized stops for Korean females was shorter than that for Vietnamese migrant females. As for errors in pronunciation by Vietnamese migrant females’ group, there were the most significant errors of pronouncing the lenis as the glottalized, the aspirated as the lenis and the glottalized as the lenis. It was found that there were statistically significant differences in the average of the values of VOT between the two groups in the entire lenis stops.

The purpose of this study is to find out the acoustic characteristics of produced alveolar sibilant sounds according to the subsequent vowels of the children with cerebral palsy through acoustic analysis. Ten children with spastic cerebral palsy aging from 6 to 10 years old were selected by an articulation test and compared with a control group of twenty children. The frication duration of alveolar sibilant sounds and the subsequent vowel duration were measured from the disyllable VCV and the frame sentence including target syllables CV which were analyzed by using Multi-Speech. As a result, the children with cerebral palsy had significantly shorter frication duration of lenis-tensed alveolar sibilant than the control group in the high vowel, mid vowel, low vowel, central vowel and back vowel following the alveolar sibilant sounds of VCV and the frame sentence(p<.05). The children with cerebral palsy had significantly longer duration of mid vowel, central vowel and back vowel following lenis-tensed alveolar sibilant than the control group in VCV and the frame sentence(p<.05). The frication duration of the children with cerebral palsy showed significant differences between the lenis and tensed in all kinds of vowel following the alveolar sibilant sounds of VCV and the central vowel following the alveolar sibilant sounds of frame sentence(p<.05). The subsequent vowel duration showed significant differences between the lenis and tensed in the vowel duration of high vowel, mid vowel, frontal vowel, and back vowel of VCV(p<.05). The results will be fundamental data intervened to the articulation treatment of alveolar sibilant sounds for children with cerebral palsy.

말운동장애는 명료도의 문제를 가지고 있기 때문에 우리말의 어떤 말소리와 가장 민감하고 관련이 있 는지를 알아 보고자 하였다. 14명(남 8명, 여 6명)의 마비말장애의 평 균 연령은 53.26(± 6.89)이었고, 정상군은 51.67(± 2.35)이었다. 연구결 과 첫 번째, 기식음과 VOT와의 관련이 높게 나타났음며, 둘번째, SPL 과 성문저항 분석에서도 모두 기식음에서만 유의미한 차이를 보이고 있어 낮은 성문저항은 음의 강도를 증가시킴에도 불구하고 구강압력의 형성의 실패로 명료도에 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 우리말 의 기식음이 신경학적 말운동장 환자의 명료도와 관련이 있는 것으로 나타났다.

In order to execute speech, basically, phonation and proper speech is produced by the function of various methods and sequences of articulators and coordination among valve and structures or airflow generation. As a result, the following conclusions were reached. First, according to the result of study on coordination of superior larynx system, it was shown that VOT, the temporal coordination parameter of superior larynx system, was proportional to the level of aspiration, and an evidence for propriety was provided according to phonation type, rather than articulation place. Finally, a problem with adductor according to the incoordination or weakness of intrinsic laryngeal muscle in neurological speech disorder had an effect on aspiration.

The study aims at understanding the overall linguistic ability of ATT, which is a new treatment for aphasic patients. The study conducted speech therapy by utilizing ATT and existing treatment(CILT) and attempted to verify and discuss their effect. First, applying the standardized test tool K-WAB after ATT mediation statistically significantly increased(p<.05) the K-WAB aphasia index scores(17.54±7.09), compared to before the mediation. Also, each of the K-WAB subtests(spontaneous speech(7.66±2.23), auditory verbal comprehension(5.99±1.46), repetition(6.02±1.8), naming(4.92±1.71)) showed a statistically significant increase(p<.05) in all areas. Second, K-WAB revealed that the existing treatment of CILT also statistically significantly increased the K-WAB aphasia index scores(6.97±4.48), compared to before the mediation. Also, each of the K-WAB subtests(spontaneous speech(7.66±2.23), auditory verbal comprehension(5.99±1.46),repetition(6.02±1.8), naming(4.92±1.71)) observed an improvement in all areas, although only spontaneous speech, auditory verbal comprehension, and naming showed a statistically significant improvement.(p<.05). Third, when the aphasia index and subtest(spontaneous speech(p=.006), auditory verbal comprehension(p=.138), repetition, and naming) scores obtained through K-WAB from the existing CILT and ATT treatments were compared, the aphasia index, repetition, and naming of ATT displayed statistically significant increase(p<.05) than the existing treatment.