미얀마인 한국어 학습자들의 종성 발음 오류 분석 - 비음과 유음을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the errors made by Myanmar learners in producing Korean final consonants and to reveal the cause of the errors. There are seven sounds /k, n, t, l, m, p, ŋ/ that can be pronounced in the Korean final consonant position. However the only sound that can be pronounced in the Myanmar final consonant position is the glottal stop /ʔ/. As a result Myanmar learners have a hard time pronouncing the Korean final consonants. Especially Myanmar learners make many errors in the pronunciation of final nasal and liquid sounds. Myanmar learners make errors by replacing them with other sounds because they do not clearly recognize the final nasal sounds /m, n, ŋ/ in Korean. Because the exact articulation position of the final Korean nasal sounds is not well known, it is difficult to pronounce it, so the nasal vowel in the native language is applied to the pronunciation of the final nasal sounds in Korean. In addition, the final nasals /m, n, ŋ/ are confused with consonants in different positions to make pronunciation errors. These errors can be interpreted as being because learners are not familiar with the final nasal sound and their discrimination power for the three phonemes is poor. And, Myanmar learners make an error in pronunciation by dropping out when pronouncing the final sound /l/ and replacing it with a different sound[ɬ]. This can be interpreted as committing this error because Myanmar learners do not recognize the final liquid sound /l/ well and feel it difficult to pronounce it because there is no liquid sound /l/ in the final consonant sound of Myanmar.