Phonetics and Speech Sciences (말소리와 음성과학)

Korean Society of Speech Sciences (한국음성학회)
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Learning acoustic cue weights for Korean stops through L2 perception training

지각 훈련을 통한 한국어 폐쇄음 음향 신호 가중치의 L2 학습

  • Oh, Eunjin (Department of English Language and Literature, Ewha Womans University)
  • 오은진 (이화여자대학교 영어영문학부)
  • Received : 2021.10.05
  • Accepted : 2021.10.25
  • Published : 2021.12.31
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Abstract

This study investigated whether Korean learners improve acoustic cue weights to identify Korean lenis and aspirated stops in the direction of native values through perception training that focused on contrasting the stops in various phonetic contexts. Nineteen native Chinese learners of Korean and two native Korean instructors for the perception training participated in the experiment. A training group and a non-training group were divided according to pretest results, and only the training group participated in the training for 5 days. To estimate the perceptual weights of the stop cues, a pretest and a posttest were conducted with stimuli whose stop cues (F0 and VOT) were systematically manipulated. Binary logistic regression analyses were performed on each learner's test results to calculate perceptual β coefficients, which estimate the perceptual weights of the acoustic cues used in identifying the stop contrast. The training group showed a statistically significant increase of 0.451 on average in the posttest for the coefficient values of the F0, which is the primary cue for the stop contrast, whereas the non-training group showed an insignificant increase of 0.246. The patterns of change in the F0 use after training varied considerably among individual learners.

본 연구는 한국어 평음과 기음 대조에 초점을 맞춘 지각 훈련을 통해 한국어 학습자들이 L2 폐쇄음을 대조하는 음향 신호의 지각 가중치를 모국어 값의 방향으로 개선하는지 고찰하였다. 중국어가 모국어인 한국어 학습자 19명과 지각 훈련을 진행한 한국어가 모국어인 교사 2명이 실험에 참가하였다. 사전 테스트 결과에 따라 훈련 집단과 비훈련 집단으로 나누었고, 훈련 집단만 5일 동안 지각 훈련을 진행하였다. 폐쇄음 신호의 지각 가중치를 추정하기 위해 음향 신호를 체계적으로 조작한 자극으로 사전 및 사후 테스트를 시행했다. 개별 학습자들의 테스트 결과에 대해 이분형 로지스틱 회귀 분석을 시행해, 말소리 대조를 지각하는 데에 해당 음향 신호를 사용한 가중치를 추정하는 지각 β 계수 값을 계산하였다. 두 폐쇄음을 구별하는 주요 신호인 F0의 지각 계수에 대해, 훈련 집단은 사전 테스트 대비 사후 테스트에서 평균 0.451의 통계적으로 유의미한 증가를 보인 반면 비훈련 집단은 유의미하지 않은 0.246의 증가를 나타냈다. 그러나 지각 훈련 후 F0 사용의 변화 패턴이 개별 학습자들 간에 다양하게 나타났다.

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본 논문에 대해 유익한 조언을 주신 세 분 심사위원 선생님, 참가자 모집에 도움을 준 Xing Fan, 실험 참가자 모두께 감사드립니다. 본 연구 결과는 2021 한국음성학회 가을 학술대회에 발표된 바 있습니다.

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