한국인들의 영어유성파열음과 이완모음 발화에 대한 연구

Abstract

Two groups of Korean students produced English voiced stops and lax vowels. One group simply followed an American English speaker's pronunciation and the other group learned phonetic information about them before they pronounced them. We compared VOTs for voiced stops and formants for lax vowels. The results show that both groups were good for the low front lax vowel. However, both groups' pronunciations were far from those of the American English speaker for the high back lax vowel and all of the voiced stops. We assume that this is because of the vowel merger in American English and the influence of the phonological contrasts of Korean stops, respectively.