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A perceptual and acoustic study on Vietnamese learners’ production of Korean affricates

See-Gyoon Park 1 JiYoung Kim 1

1군산대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to clarify the error patterns andacoustical characteristics of Vietnamese learners’ production of Koreanaffricates. For this purpose, the Vietnamese learners were divided intothree groups (beginners, intermediate, and advanced) according to theirL2 (Korean) experiences, and the patterns of their pronunciations ofKorean affricate sounds in word-initial and word-medial positions wereexamined through listening judgment by Korean listners and acousticanalysis was also conducted for the identical tokens. The result of the listening judgment showed that Vietnamese learnerswere most accurate with the production of lenis sound ‘ㅈ’ in word-initialand word-medial positions. In terms of the improvement of pronunciationin relation to the learning experience, it was found that word-initial lenis‘ㅈ’, and word-medial lenis ‘ㅈ’ and aspirated ‘ㅊ’ were improved, and thatword-medial fortis ‘ㅉ’ was in the middle of improvement. Overall, itseemed that more clues of improvement were provided in theword-medial than in the word-initial position. In terms of the overall error pattern, the accurate tokens ofVietnamese subjects judged by Korean listeners reached almost the samelevel as the tokens produced by Koreans in all lenis, fortis, and aspiratedsounds. In the case of the inaccurate tokens of Vietnamese subjectsjudged by Korean listeners, the fortis ‘ㅉ’ and the aspirated ‘ㅊ’ in word-initial position differed in the length of the CF-VOT and the fortis‘ㅉ’ and the aspirated ‘ㅊ’ in word-medial position differed in the lengthsof the precedent vowel, the CF-VOT, and the closure duration.

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