Perception of Korean nasal onset /m/ by Japanese listeners: A preliminary study

Yun, Jihyeon; Arai, Takayuki

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“…While there have been a few perception studies, they have focused on cross-linguistic perception by non-native listeners [4,15] and learners of the Korean language [7,16], or on native listeners' lexical access regarding prosodic context [8] using naturally spoken stimuli. These studies have shown the characteristics of Korean denasalization, yet the connection between measured acoustic properties and perceptual judgment has not been systematically tested.…”

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Perception of synthesized /na/ by Korean listeners

Yun

Arai

2020

Acoust. Sci. & Tech.

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Previous research reported that Korean nasal consonants can be denasalized in wordinitial position. This study examined the perception of word-initial nasal onset /n/ for native Korean listeners using synthesized /Ca/ stimuli with a Klatt synthesizer. We tested the effects of consonant duration, consonant nasality, and vowel nasalization on perception. In a rating experiment, listeners evaluated the goodness of the stimuli as /na/ on a seven-point scale. The participants generally gave favorable ratings to the stimuli with nasalized vowels. Two-thirds of the participants responded that the stimuli with no nasality are good exemplars of /na/, whereas the other listeners did not. In a yes-no experiment, participants judged if the stimuli were /na/ or not. They responded in similar ways they did in the rating experiment. Many listeners gave positive responses as /na/ even to the stimuli with 0 voice onset time, yet the stimuli with longer prevoicing or nasal murmur were more likely to be perceived as /na/. Vowel nasality affected the perception of /na/, while some listeners preferred oral vowels over the nasalized vowels when they evaluated the /na/-likeness.

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