Cross-language identification of consonants. Part 1. Korean perception of English

Twenty native Korean-speaking subjects heard 22 English word-initial consonants in three vowel contexts produced by three native English talkers. The subjects orthographically labeled each English consonant as the closest Korean consonant. They then judged how similar the English consonant was to th...

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Published inThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 99; no. 5; p. 3201
Main Author Schmidt, A M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.05.1996
Subjects
Adult
Female
Humans
Korea
Language
Male
Phonetics
Speech Acoustics
Speech Perception
United States - ethnology
United States
Korea
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ISSN0001-4966
DOI10.1121/1.414804

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Summary:Twenty native Korean-speaking subjects heard 22 English word-initial consonants in three vowel contexts produced by three native English talkers. The subjects orthographically labeled each English consonant as the closest Korean consonant. They then judged how similar the English consonant was to the Korean consonant on a scale of 1 to 5. Some English consonants were labeled consistently as a single Korean consonant and judged to be very similar. Other English consonants were labeled consistently as a single Korean consonant but judged to be less similar. Still other English consonants were inconsistently labeled. Korean acoustic cues, vowel context, and token differences appeared to influence labeling choices.
ISSN:0001-4966
DOI:10.1121/1.414804