The purpose of this paper is to investigate variations of monophthongization and acoustical characteristics of i found in Seoul Corpus Monophthongization occurs in 9304% of a total of 2,370 tokens and in higher than 99% of the cases with onsets and also of non-initial position in a word However, only 3182% of word initial tokens are monophthongized, which supports the findi..
This study compares prosodic features of English pronunciation in a Korean student cohort from 2000 with one from 2012 in order to investigate accent improvement in the latter that may be attributable to receiving English education from an earlier age, following its formal introduction in elementary schools The data were collected from recordings of 94 speakers 40 student..
This study examines the nature of consonant weakening processes (ie lenition) within the framework of Optimality Theory In order to delve into the current topic more deeply, the voicing of initial fricatives particularly in the southern and south-western dialects of Old and Middle English is investigated I argue that the *COMPLEX[Element] constraint, where element..
This study aims to test Webers (2001) proposal on the novel popout effect in speech sound processing when the lateralization rule is violated in Korean Weber proposed that violation of a phonological rule would lead to facilitation rather than inhibition in the processing of a sound in the context of weak expectations in progressive assimilation and novel popout Kore..
The present study attempts to provide an insightful analysis of the second radical reduplication in Amharic, one of the Semitic languages spoken in the central and southern highlands of Ethiopia Following Unseth (2002), it is suggested that even though underlying ghost consonants (laryngeals [h, , , ] or glides [w, y]) do not typically appear in regular verbal conjugations,..
It has been recently reported through pattern recognition or synthesized vowel perception studies that American English listeners categorize vowels using dynamic spectral properties and duration rather than static spectral properties only (Hillenbrand et al 1995, Hillenbrand 2013) However, Hong (2015) showed through pattern recognition modeling that Korean listeners u..