A Study on Korean Learners’ Production and Perception of American English ‘Can’ and ‘Can’t’

PIAO SONGDAN

doi:10.31310/HUM.075.08

This paper has explored the production and perception of ‘can’ and ‘can’t’ in American English among Korean learners of English. With regard to the experiment of production, we have measured the frequency of the first two formants (F1, F2) and analyzed their acoustic features. The result indicated that most of the Korean participants only produced the pronunciation of [khæn] and [khænt]. Of the seven participants, five applied the vowel /æ/ in all situations while the other two adopted vowel /ɯ/. According to the result of the perception experiment, the total ratio of errors took up 24%. Misinterpretation of [khæ ̃ʔ] to [khæn] accounted for 68% which suggested that Korean participants have difficulty in distinguishing [khæ ̃ʔ] from [khæn].

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