화자의 방언 배경에 대한 사전 정보가 마찰음의 지각에 미치는 영향 연구

Abstract

It is widely believed, correctly or not, that speakers of Gyeongsang Korean do not produce a clear contrast between the Korean sibilant fricatives /s/ and /s*/. In this study, listeners identified and rated natural and manipulated fricative productions of Seoul and Daegu talkers. Crucially, the listeners were told either that the talkers were from Seoul, or from Gyeongsang. It was found that while neither the talker’s actual dialect nor the primed dialect had any effect on listeners’ identification or rating of natural fricative productions, the listeners who were told the talkers were from Gyeongsang were more likely to perceive an ambiguous fricative as /s*/ than the listeners who were told the talkers were from Seoul. These results, while mixed, suggest that socio-indexical information about a talker may play a role in how their fricatives are perceived, and that descriptions of phonological variation should be supplemented by acoustic measurements whenever possible.