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KMID : 0917519970020010095
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Journal of Speech Sciences
1997 Volume.2 No. 1 p.95 ~ p.108
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A Study Using Acoustic Measurement and Perceptual Judgment to identity Prosodic Charateristics of English as Spoken By Koreans
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Koo Hee-San
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Abstract
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The purpose of this experimental study was to investigate prosodic characteristics of English as spoken by Korean. Test materials were four English words, a sentence, and a paragraph. Six female Korean speakers and five native English speakers participated in acoustic and perceptual experiments. Pitch and duration of word syllables were measured from signals and spectrograms mady by the Signalize 3.04 software program for Power Mac 7200. Im the perceptual experiment, accent position, intonation patterns, rhythm patterns and phrasing were evaluated by the five native English speakers. Preliminary results from this limited study that prosodic characteristics of Korean include (1) pitch on the first part of a word and sentence is lower than that of English speakers, but the pitch on the last part is the opposite; (2) word prosody is quite similar to that of an English speaker, but sentence prosody is quite different; (3) the weakest point of sentence prosody spoken by Koreans is in the rhythmic pattern.
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KEYWORD
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prosody, perception, spectrogram intonation, rhythm
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