| Phonetic analysis of Korean elementary students who had overseas study at early ages |
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Mee Heun Ryu, Chang Woo Lee |
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Department of Natural Therapy Graduate School of Complementary & Alternative Medicine Wonkwang University, Iksan, Korea |
| 조기 유학 후 귀국한 초등학생의 발음 이상에 대한 음성학적 연구 |
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유미현, 이창우 |
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원광대학교 동서보완의학대학원 임상언어치료학과 |
Correspondence:
Chang Woo Lee, Email: chan33@wonkwang.ac.kr
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| Abstract |
Purpose
: The number of the repatriated Korean students who had overseas study at early ages is increasing. They received foreign education, they can speak international languages, but they have many difficulties in articulation and intonation of the Korean language. This study aims to measure closure and aspiration duration, length of consonants, length of subsequent vowels, and ratio of consonants against subsequent vowels in vowel–consonant–vowel (VCV) syllables.
Methods
: This study compares the acoustic and phonetic characteristics of repatriated and native students, the ratio of articulation error of Korean plosives, the closure and aspiration duration, and the ratio of the aspiration duration against the closure duration.
Results
: The ratio of articulation error of Korean plosives between repatriated and native students is 19% and 2%, respectively. The closure duration was significantly longer in repatriated students than in native students. The aspiration duration was significantly longer in repatriated students than in native students. No difference was found in the ratio of aspiration duration against closure duration between the native and repatriated students.
Conclusion
: This study can be a good reference for estimating the phonetic difficulties of Korean elementary students who had overseas study at early ages. |
| Key Words:
Phonetic Analysis, Plosives, Articulation |
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