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KMID : 1022420130050020071
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2013 Volume.5 No. 2 p.71 ~ p.79
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A Longitudinal Study of Korean Vowel Production by Chinese Learners of Korean
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Kim Joo-Yeon
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Abstract
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This study provided longitudinal examination of the Chinese learners’ acquisition of the Korean vowels. Specifically the author examined whether Korean monophthongs are acquired rapidly in early stages of learning (Flege, Munro and Skelton,1992; Munro and Derwing, 2008) or they develop rather gradually in proportion to the learners’experience (Byee, 2001; Ellis,2006). This study collected the Korean vowel production by 23 Chinese learners for a year, and then analysed F1 and F2 of each Korean vowel. The results showed that 1) Most of the second language (L2) vowels were rapidly improved during the first six or nine months of Korean learning before reaching the constant stage; and 2) The exact acquisition trajectories varied across the seven vowels. Specifically the vowels which were acquired in the early stage of learning were /i, e, ?/ for F1 and /?, e, o, u/ for F2. Thus this study supports the hypothesis of Flege et al. (1992) and Munro and Derwing (2008) except the fact that each vowel showed the different learning route.
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KEYWORD
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longitudinal study, Korean vowel, Chinese learner, acquisition pattern of Korean
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