Age and gender differences in the spectral characteristics of Korean sibilants
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While recent acoustic studies have reported associations of fronted sibilants (fricatives /s s * / and affricates /tɕ tɕ* /) with gender in Seoul Korean, there have not been any studies examining the relationship of the variants with adult speakers’ ages. The current study analyzes sibilant productions from 39 adult speakers born between 1942 and 2008 (19 females) in terms of spectral peak frequencies (SPFs) in frication, an acoustic index of place of articulation (POA). The results indicate some phonetic contexts where higher sibilant SPFs, i.e., fronter POAs, are associated with younger adults and those fronted variants are realized in a gender-differentiated manner -- tense affricates and word-initial tense fricatives before /i/ in the females’ productions, and word-medial tense fricatives before /a/ in the males’ productions. The findings confirm that the distributions of the fronted sibilants are accounted for not only by the speakers’ gender but also by their ages, indicating that the fronted variants are innovative forms of realizing sibilants in Seoul Korean. In addition, the current results convincingly show that the fronted sibilant variants are not mere reflections of individuals’ physiological differences since they are not observed across all of the examined phonetic contexts.
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While recent acoustic studies have reported associations of fronted sibilants (fricatives /s s * / and affricates /tɕ tɕ* /) with gender in Seoul Korean, there have not been any studies examining the relationship of the variants with adult speakers’ ages. The current study analyzes sibilant productions from 39 adult speakers born between 1942 and 2008 (19 females) in terms of spectral peak frequencies (SPFs) in frication, an acoustic index of place of articulation (POA). The results indicate some phonetic contexts where higher sibilant SPFs, i.e., fronter POAs, are associated with younger adults and those fronted variants are realized in a gender-differentiated manner -- tense affricates and word-initial tense fricatives before /i/ in the females’ productions, and word-medial tense fricatives before /a/ in the males’ productions. The findings confirm that the distributions of the fronted sibilants are accounted for not only by the speakers’ gender but also by their ages, indicating that the fronted variants are innovative forms of realizing sibilants in Seoul Korean. In addition, the current results convincingly show that the fronted sibilant variants are not mere reflections of individuals’ physiological differences since they are not observed across all of the examined phonetic contexts.
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