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강음절이 한국어 화자의 영어 연속 음성의 어휘 분절에 미치는 영향The Effect of Strong Syllables on Lexical Segmentation in English Continuous Speech by Korean Speakers

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The Effect of Strong Syllables on Lexical Segmentation in English Continuous Speech by Korean Speakers
Authors
김선미남기춘
Issue Date
2013
Publisher
한국음성학회
Keywords
strong syllable; word onset; lexical segmentation; gating paradigm; isolation point; recognition point
Citation
말소리와 음성과학, v.5, no.2, pp.43 - 51
Indexed
KCI
Journal Title
말소리와 음성과학
Volume
5
Number
2
Start Page
43
End Page
51
URI
https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/104732
DOI
10.13064/KSSS.2013.5.2.043
ISSN
2005-8063
Abstract
English native listeners have a tendency to treat strong syllables in a speech stream as the potential initial syllables of new words, since the majority of lexical words in English have a word-initial stress. The current study investigates whether Korean (L1) - English (L2) late bilinguals perceive strong syllables in English continuous speech as word onsets, as English native listeners do. In Experiment 1, word-spotting was slower when the word-initial syllable was strong, indicating that Korean listeners do not perceive strong syllables as word onsets. Experiment 2 was conducted in order to avoid any possibilities that the results of Experiment 1 may be due to the strong-initial targets themselves used in Experiment 1 being slower to recognize than the weak-initial targets. We employed the gating paradigm in Experiment 2, and measured the Isolation Point (IP, the point at which participants correctly identify a word without subsequently changing their minds) and the Recognition Point (RP, the point at which participants correctly identify the target with 85% or greater confidence) for the targets excised from the non-words in the two conditions of Experiment 1. Both the mean IPs and the mean RPs were significantly earlier for the strong-initial targets, which means that the results of Experiment 1 reflect the difficulty of segmentation when the initial syllable of words was strong. These results are consistent with Kim & Nam (2011), indicating that strong syllables are not perceived as word onsets for Korean listeners and interfere with lexical segmentation in English running speech.
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