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KMID : 0917520010080030007
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Journal of Speech Sciences
2001 Volume.8 No. 3 p.7 ~ p.14
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An Experimental Study on the Lengths of English Diphthongs
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Park Hee-Suk
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This study was done to find out the difference in vowel length between the English language produced by American soldiers and KATU A soldiers. Though English pronunciation by Koreans shows , different features in many ways, I focused on English vowel length of KATU A soldiers. I wanted to know if KATU A soldiers, when compared with American soldiers, showed a foreign accent when they produced English diphthongs, The reason I wanted to deal with English diphthongs is that most Koreans have difficulty in pronouncing them since they do not understand the concept of diphthongs. Therefore I selected five English diphthongs, /al/, /??/ /au/, /el/,/ou/, as the experimental object, and I tried to find out the foreign accent of them.
In this study I also tried to find out the vowel lengths in relation to their utterance positions, I investigated the difference of the English diphthong length between American and KATUA soldiers using information gathered from experimental results.
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