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KMID : 1022420120040010013
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2012 Volume.4 No. 1 p.13 ~ p.20
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Perception of Korean stops with a three-way laryngeal contrast
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Kong Eun-Jong
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Abstract
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A lax stop in Korean, one of the three laryngeal contrastive stops, has undergone a sound change in terms of its acoustic properties. Prior production studies described this recent lax stop as being differentiated from tense and aspirated stops primarily by fundamental frequencies (f0). And, the acoustic property of voice onset time (VOT) further separates tense stops from lax and aspirated stops. The current research explores how these two major acoustic parameters of f0 and VOT cue the three stop categories in Korean adult listeners’ perception. Thirty-one native speakers of Korean participated in two experimental tasks: categorization judgment and within-category goodness ratings. Two sets of audio stimuli were prepared by synthesizing English and Korean male speakers’ CV productions. The findings showed that while f0 cues listeners to lax stops as production patterns would predict, VOT were closely related to listeners’ categorization and goodness ratings of lax stops. This suggests that accurate characterizations of the recent lax stop category need to be based on Korean speakers’ perceptual behavior as well as production patterns.
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KEYWORD
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laryngeal contrast, categorization, category goodness, Korean stops, speech perception
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