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KMID : 1022420120040030003
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2012 Volume.4 No. 3 p.3 ~ p.12
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English /s/ and Korean /sh/-/s*/ Contrast in Seoul and Busan Dialects: A Study of Category Solidity
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Kang Kyoung-Ho
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Abstract
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The primary goal of the current study was to examine category solidity of Korean alveolar fricatives in the Busan and Seoul dialects of Korean. Considering the common belief of /sh/-/s*/ neutralization in Kyungsang speech, plain /sh/ and fortis /s*/ fricatives of Busan speakers were examined against the same fricatives of Seoul speakers. Perceptual distance between Korean /sh/ and /s*/ on the one hand and English /s/ on the other was investigated by use of across-linguistic mapping method. Two experiments of a perceptual mapping task of English /s/ to Korean /sh/ and /s*/ and a /s*/-production task were conducted on users of the Busan and Seoul dialects of Korean. The results from the perception and production experiments suggested that at a micro-level, younger Busan speakers have less solid category stability for Korean /s*/ compared with Seoul speakers, although their production of /sh/ and /s*/ was as highly distinctive from each other as that of Seoul speakers.
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KEYWORD
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Korean fricatives, perceptual category representation, neutralization, category solidity
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