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KMID : 1022420100020020017
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2010 Volume.2 No. 2 p.17 ~ p.25
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Phonological Process and Word Recognition in Continuous Speech: Evidence from Coda-neutralization
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Kim Sun-Mi
Nam Ki-Chun
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Abstract
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This study explores whether Koreans exploit their native coda-neutralization process when recognizing words in Korean continuous speech. According to the phonological rules in Korean, coda-neutralization process must come before the liaison process, as long as the latter(i.e. liaison process) occurs between ‘words’, which results in liaison-consonants being coda-neutralized ones such as /b/, /d/, or /g/, rather than non-neutralized ones like /p/, /t/, /k/, /?/, /?/, or /s/. Consequently, if Korean listeners use their native coda-neutralization rules when processing speech input, word recognition will be hampered when non-neutralized consonants precede vowel-initial targets. Word-spotting and word-monitoring tasks were conducted in Experiment 1 and 2, respectively. In both experiments, listeners recognized words faster and more accurately when vowel-initial target words were preceded by coda-neutralized consonants than when preceded by coda non-neutralized ones. The results show that Korean listeners exploit the coda-neutralization process when processing their native spoken language.
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KEYWORD
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Coda-neutralization, liaison, word recognition, phonological process, continuous speech
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