The contribution of consonantal and vocalic information to the perception of Korean initial stops

Kim, Mi Ryoung; Beddor, Patrice Speeter; Horrocks, Julie

doi:10.1006/jpho.2001.0152

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“…There is, however, an additional phonological difference concerning coda position in Korean and Dutch which might be relevant. Korean stops are phonologically divided into the categories lenis, fortis and aspirated, and these manners of articulation are cued primarily in the postrelease part of the acoustic signal ͑Cho et Kim et al, 2002͒. This three-way manner contrast is neutralized completely in coda position ͑Kim and Jongman, 1996͒.…”

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“…We investigate how listeners of two unrelated languages, Korean and Dutch, process sounds which are phonologically viable or nonviable in their native language. In Korean, stops in syllable-or word-initial position are lenis, fortis, or aspirated, and their phonetic cues are generally present in the release portion and at the beginning of the following vowel ͑Cho et Kim et al, 2002͒. In coda position, however, stops are unreleased, at least when the syllable or word is produced in isolation. Coda stops in Korean can be realized either with or without audible releases.…”

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Phonological versus phonetic cues in native and non-native listening: Korean and Dutch listeners' perception of Dutch and English consonants

Cho

McQueen

2006

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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We investigated how listeners of two unrelated languages, Korean and Dutch, process phonologically viable and nonviable consonants spoken in Dutch and American English. To Korean listeners, released final stops are nonviable because word-final stops in Korean are never released in words spoken in isolation, but to Dutch listeners, unreleased word-final stops are nonviable because word-final stops in Dutch are generally released in words spoken in isolation. Two phoneme monitoring experiments showed a phonological effect on both Dutch and English stimuli: Korean listeners detected the unreleased stops more rapidly whereas Dutch listeners detected the released stops more rapidly and/or more accurately. The Koreans, however, detected released stops more accurately than unreleased stops, but only in the non-native language they were familiar with ͑English͒. The results suggest that, in non-native speech perception, phonological legitimacy in the native language can be more important than the richness of phonetic information, though familiarity with phonetic detail in the non-native language can also improve listening performance.

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Phonological versus phonetic cues in native and non-native listening: Korean and Dutch listeners' perception of Dutch and English consonants

Cho

McQueen

2006

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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“…These differences in produced cues are reflected in the Korean perception of these three segments. When listening to initial plosives that vary in the degree of aspiration noise and in the height of F0, Korean listeners turn out to rely mainly on F0 to distinguish /t/ on the one hand (lowered F0) from /t'/ and /t h / on the other hand (raised F0); the distinction between /t'/ and /t h / is then made on the basis of aspiration noise (M.-R. Cho Kim 1994;Kim, Beddor & Horrocks 2002 Boersma (1997Boersma ( , 1998Boersma ( , 2000Boersma ( , 2006Boersma ( , 2007ab, 2008, , Escudero (2005), Boersma & Escudero (2008), Boersma & Hamann (2008), and Hamann (2009) provide such a formalization in terms of cue constraints. Just as faithfulness constraints do, cue constraints link two representations: whereas faithfulness constraints link underlying forms to phonological surface forms, cue constraints link auditory-phonetic forms to phonological surface forms (Fig.…”

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Loanword adaptation as first-language phonological perception

Boersma

Hamann

2009

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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Abstract. We show that loanword adaptation can be understood entirely in terms of phonological and phonetic comprehension and production mechanisms in the first language. We provide explicit accounts of several loanword adaptation phenomena (in Korean) in terms of an Optimality-Theoretic grammar model with the same three levels of representation that are needed to describe L1 phonology: the underlying form, the phonological surface form, and the auditory-phonetic form. The model is bidirectional, i.e., the same constraints and rankings are used by the listener and by the speaker. These constraints and rankings are the same for L1 processing and loanword adaptation. Figure 1 shows a simplified version of an existing model for first-language (L1) processing (Boersma 1998(Boersma , 2000.1 The model is bidirectional, i.e., it accounts for the behaviour of the listener (on the left) as well as the speaker (on the right). In both directions, processing is assumed to be handled by the interaction of OptimalityTheoretic constraints. Phonological production (top right) is described in terms of an interaction between structural and faithfulness constraints (McCarthy & Prince 1995). Perception (bottom left) is described in terms of an interaction between structural and cue constraints (Boersma 2000. The remaining two processes, word recognition (top left) and phonetic implementation (bottom right), are (in this simplified version) described by one set of constraints each (faithfulness and cue constraints, respectively).

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“…By contrast, F0 is the primary cue for Korean listeners to distinguish lax stops distinctively from the aspirated stops because both laryngeal types are associated with a long-lag VOT as a result of a recent sound change (Kim, Beddor & Horrocks, 2002;Silva, 2006;Wright, 2007;Kang & Guion, 2008). Kim et al (2002) showed that Korean listeners were able to identify the lax type of stops solely based on the acoustic property of a low F0 at the following vowel onset when only the vowel portion of the syllable was presented as stimuli.…”

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“…Kim et al (2002) showed that Korean listeners were able to identify the lax type of stops solely based on the acoustic property of a low F0 at the following vowel onset when only the vowel portion of the syllable was presented as stimuli.…”

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L2 Proficiency Effect on the Acoustic Cue-Weighting Pattern by Korean L2 Learners of English: Production and Perception of English Stops

Kong¹,

Yoon²

2013

Phonetics and Speech Sciences

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This study explored how Korean L2 learners of English utilize multiple acoustic cues (VOT and F0) in perceiving and producing the English alveolar stop with a voicing contrast. Thirty-four 18-year-old high-school students participated in the study. Their English proficiency level was classified as either 'high' (HEP) or 'low' (LEP) according to high-school English level standardization. Thirty different synthesized syllables were presented in audio stimuli by combining a 6-step VOTs and a 5-step F0s. The listeners judged how close the audio stimulus was to /t/ or /d/ in L2 using a visual analogue scale. The L2 /d/ and /t/ productions collected from the 22 learners (12 HEP, 10 LEP) were acoustically analyzed by measuring VOT and F0 at the vowel onset. Results showed that LEP listeners attended to the F0 in the stimuli more sensitively than HEP listeners, suggesting that HEP listeners could inhibit less important acoustic dimensions better than LEP listeners in their L2 perception. The L2 production patterns also exhibited a group-difference between HEP and LEP in that HEP speakers utilized their VOT dimension (primary cue in L2) more effectively than LEP speakers. Taken together, the study showed that the relative cue-weighting strategies in L2 perception and production are closely related to the learner's L2 proficiency level in that more proficient learners had a better control of inhibiting and enhancing the relevant acoustic parameters.

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The contribution of consonantal and vocalic information to the perception of Korean initial stops

Cited by 104 publications

References 22 publications

Phonological versus phonetic cues in native and non-native listening: Korean and Dutch listeners' perception of Dutch and English consonants

Phonological versus phonetic cues in native and non-native listening: Korean and Dutch listeners' perception of Dutch and English consonants

Loanword adaptation as first-language phonological perception

L2 Proficiency Effect on the Acoustic Cue-Weighting Pattern by Korean L2 Learners of English: Production and Perception of English Stops

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