Effects of speaker gender on voice onset time in Korean stops.

2009 ◽  
Vol 125 (4) ◽  
pp. 2574-2574
Author(s):  
Eunjin Oh
Keyword(s):  
Voice Onset Time ◽  
Onset Time ◽  
Korean Stops

Effects of Sound Change on the Weighting of Acoustic Cues to the Three-Way Laryngeal Stop Contrast in Korean: Diachronic and Dialectal Comparisons

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 509-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyunjung Lee ◽  
Allard Jongman
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Frequency ◽  
Voice Onset Time ◽  
Onset Time ◽  
Sound Change ◽  
Acoustic Cues ◽  
Dialectal Variation ◽  
Cue Weighting ◽  
Age Variation ◽  
Korean Stops

Both segmental and suprasegmental properties of the South Kyungsang dialect of Korean have changed under the influence of standard Seoul Korean. This study examines how such sound change affects acoustic cues to the three-way laryngeal contrast among Korean stops across Kyungsang generations through a comparison with Seoul Korean. Thirty-nine female Korean speakers differing in dialect (Kyungsang, Seoul) and age (older, younger) produced words varying in initial stops and lexical accent patterns, for which voice onset time and fundamental frequency (F0) at vowel onset were measured. This study first confirms previous findings regarding age and dialectal variation in distinguishing the three Korean stops. In addition, we report age variation in the use of voice onset time and F0 for the stops in Kyungsang Korean, with younger speakers using F0 more than older speakers as a cue to the stop distinction. This age variation is accounted for by the reduced lexical tonal properties of Kyungsang Korean and the increased influence of Seoul Korean. A comparison of the specific cue weighting across speaker groups also reveals that younger Kyungsang speakers pattern with Seoul speakers who arguably follow the enhancing F0 role of the innovative younger Seoul speakers. The shared cue weighting pattern across generations and dialects suggests that each speaker group changes the acoustic cue weighting in a similar direction.

scholarly journals The Perception and Production of Word-Initial Korean Stops by Native Speakers of Japanese

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 494-508
Author(s):  
Jeffrey J Holliday
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Voice Onset Time ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Onset Time ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Korean Stops

Previous studies have shown that non-native speakers of Korean not only have difficulty producing the word-initial three-way stop contrast, but also exhibit a wide range of production patterns. Because these studies have only investigated native (L1) speakers of English and Mandarin and given the overall paucity of research on non-native Korean, it is not yet clear how dependent these findings are on the particular native language under investigation. The current paper reinforces our empirical grounding via extension to L1 speakers of Japanese. It is shown that although naïve Japanese listeners consistently perceive Korean fortis stops as voiced, and Korean lenis and aspirated stops as voiceless, novice second language learners do not produce any significant difference among the three stop categories, despite producing clear differences between their native Japanese stop categories. Unlike in previous studies of L1 speakers of English and Mandarin, there was very little inter-speaker variation, and all speakers produced all Korean stops with long lag voice onset time.

Linguistic and social effects on perceptions of voice onset time in Korean stops

2012 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
pp. 1966-1966
Author(s):  
Robert Podesva ◽  
Annette D'Onofrio ◽  
Eric Acton ◽  
Sam Bowman ◽  
Jeremy Calder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Voice Onset Time ◽  
Onset Time ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Korean Stops
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