본문 바로가기
KERD
논문KCI 등재

벅아이 코퍼스를 이용한 미국 영어의 /l/ 연구개음화 연구

A study of /l/ velarization in American English based on the Buckeye Corpus

2

조회

0

다운로드

0

인용

0

참고문헌

키워드

주제분류학제간연구

초록

It has been widely recognized that there are two varieties of lateral liquid /l/, which are light /l/ (a non-velarized allophone) and dark /l/ (a velarized allophone). However, this categorical view has been challenged in recent studies, both on articulatory and acoustic aspects. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether to consider /l/ velarization as a continuum in American English and provide supporting data. A spontaneous American English speech database called the Buckeye Speech Corpus was used for the material. The formant frequencies of /l/ in each syllable position were measured and analyzed statistically. The formant frequencies of /l/ in each syllable position, especially F2 values, were significantly different from each other. The results showed that there were other significantly different varieties of /l/ in American English, which support the continuum view on /l/ velarization. Regarding the effect of the adjacent vowel, the backness of the adjacent vowels was shown to affect the degree of /l/ velarization, regardless of the syllable position of the lateral liquid. This result will help provide a solid ground for the continuum view.

Abstract

It has been widely recognized that there are two varieties of lateral liquid /l/, which are light /l/ (a non-velarized allophone) and dark /l/ (a velarized allophone). However, this categorical view has been challenged in recent studies, both on articulatory and acoustic aspects. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether to consider /l/ velarization as a continuum in American English and provide supporting data. A spontaneous American English speech database called the Buckeye Speech Corpus was used for the material. The formant frequencies of /l/ in each syllable position were measured and analyzed statistically. The formant frequencies of /l/ in each syllable position, especially F2 values, were significantly different from each other. The results showed that there were other significantly different varieties of /l/ in American English, which support the continuum view on /l/ velarization. Regarding the effect of the adjacent vowel, the backness of the adjacent vowels was shown to affect the degree of /l/ velarization, regardless of the syllable position of the lateral liquid. This result will help provide a solid ground for the continuum view.

참고문헌 (16)

  1. (2018)[URL]
  2. Chomsky, N., "The sound pattern of English" (1968), Harper & Row
  3. Espy-Wilson, C. Y., "Acoustic measures for linguistic features distinguishing the semivowels", w j r l, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, pp.1992, 92(2)[DOI]
  4. Eychenne, J., "Phono- metrica: An open platform for the analysis of speech corpora", Proceedings of the Seoul International Conference on Speech Sciences 2019, pp.107~108 (2019)
  5. Jones, D., "The pronunciation of English" (1966), Cambridge University Press
  6. Ladefoged, P., "A course in phonetics" (2014), Cengage Learning
  7. Pitt, M., "The Buckeye corpus of conversational speech : Labeling conventions and a test of transcriber reliability", Speech Communication, 45(1), pp.89~95 (2005)
  8. "Buckeye corpus of conversational speech" (2007)[URL]
  9. Recasens, D., "A cross-language acoustic study of initial and final allophones of", l, Speech Communication, pp.2012, 54(3)[DOI]
  10. Recasens, D., "Articulatory and acoustic properties of different allophones of", l, Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-1990), pp.1990[DOI]
  11. Rodrigues, S., , l, PLOS ONE, pp.2019, 14(3)[DOI]
  12. Sproat, R., "Allophonic variation in English", l, Journal of Phonetics, pp.1993, 21(3)[DOI]
  13. Some, "l", s are darker than others: Accounting for variation in English, with ultrasound tongue imaging, pp.Turton, D., University of Pennsylvania[DOI]
  14. Weenink, D., "Improved formant frequency measure- ments of short segments", Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (2015)
  15. 윤규철, "벅아이 코퍼스 오류 수정과 코퍼스 활용을 위한 프랏 스크립트 툴", 말소리와 음성과학, 4(1), pp.29~47 (2012), 한국음성학회[DOI]
  16. Yuan, J., , l, Journal of Speech Sciences, pp.2011, 1(2)[DOI]

관련 논문AI추천

이 간행물의 다른 논문 (10건)