Parallel Voice Onset Time shift in Chinese Korean

Jin, Wenhua; Silva, David J.

doi:10.1075/aplv.3.1.03jin

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“…Dandong/Phyeongan: Previous studies on Phyeongan Korean have been mixed. Jin (2008) and Jin and Silva (2017) found VOT patterns similar to those seen in Seoul, including an ongoing merger between lenis and aspirated stops, based on a production study of thirty-five 18-74-year-old speakers in Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning province. However, in Dandong (a different city in the same province), while there is evidence of an ongoing VOT merger, it is not as far advanced as the one in Seoul, such that Dandong speakers' VOT values for lenis and aspirated stops being better separated, and f0 values being less well-separated, than their age-matched counterparts in Seoul (Kang & Han, 2012;Kang et al, forthcoming).…”

Section: Dialectal Differences In Production Of the Stop Contrastmentioning

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Sources of variability in phonetic perception: The joint influence of listener and talker characteristics on perception of the Korean stop contrast

Schertz

Kang

Han

2019

Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology

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Where there is dialectal variability in production of a sound contrast, listeners from the two dialects may show parallel differences in perception. At the same time, perception is not static and can be influenced by other factors, including listeners' experience with, and expectations about, different talkers. This work examines perception of the Korean three-way stop phonation contrast by listeners of two dialects of Korean. We examine to what extent listeners' perception reflects production norms in their local community and, via a reverse matched-guise task, test whether their knowledge of cross-dialectal variability plays an active role in the way they categorize the contrast. While perception appears to reflect production norms on a broad level, we found age-related differences in perception, even for listener groups who showed no sign of a parallel difference in production. Furthermore, listeners showed different response patterns depending on the apparent dialect of the talker. Our results suggest that exposure to dialectal variability and expectations about the talker influence perception.

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Section: Dialectal Differences In Production Of the Stop Contrastmentioning

confidence: 91%

Sources of variability in phonetic perception: The joint influence of listener and talker characteristics on perception of the Korean stop contrast

Schertz

Kang

Han

2019

Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology

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Diachronic change and synchronic variation in the Korean stop laryngeal contrast

Lee

Holliday

Kong

2020

Language and Linguist. Compass

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In this review, we survey the acoustic and perceptual properties of the three‐way laryngeal contrast among voiceless stops in Korean. Paying special attention to variation across dialects and generations, we show how the phonetic properties of the stops have changed over the past 60 years and how different phonological features across regional dialects have interacted with the phonetic cues of the stop contrast. Presenting both acoustic and perceptual evidence, we argue that the Seoul Korean stop system is a good example of phonetic reorganization of distinctive phonological categories in that the importance of the consonantal cue (VOT) has decreased over time as that of the vocalic cue (F0) has increased. The innovative phonetic pattern is also observed in children's speech, indicating that children also need to acquire F0 as well as VOT to differentiate the stop contrast. This sound change seems to have spread widely to other regional and diaspora varieties of Korean as well. For tonal varieties such as Kyungsang and Yanbian Korean, the role of the innovative cue, F0, is less reliable than it is for non‐tonal varieties of Korean, though recent studies have revealed that even in these varieties the importance of F0 to the laryngeal contrast is increasingly becoming similar to Seoul Korean. Finally, non‐tonal varieties, such as Jeju, Shenyang Korean, and North American heritage Korean, have displayed Seoul‐like changes, suggesting that although these varieties of Korean are in a different stage of the change, they share the same direction.

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Parallel Voice Onset Time shift in Chinese Korean

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Sources of variability in phonetic perception: The joint influence of listener and talker characteristics on perception of the Korean stop contrast

Sources of variability in phonetic perception: The joint influence of listener and talker characteristics on perception of the Korean stop contrast

Diachronic change and synchronic variation in the Korean stop laryngeal contrast

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