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KMID : 0917520020090030155
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Journal of Speech Sciences
2002 Volume.9 No. 3 p.155 ~ p.168
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The Electropalatographic Evidence of the Korean Flap
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Ahn Soo-Woong
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Abstract
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The intervocalic Korean liquid sound has been recognized as a flap in the studies of the Korean language. But there has been very little experimental data corroborating it. The electropalatographic (EPG) experiment was conducted to test this. The subjects were one Korean speaker and one native English speaker who had a pseudopalate and did the EPG experiment at the UCLA phonetics laboratory. The spectrographic evidence of the flaps in both the English t-flap and the Korean Liquid flap was also sought. The English and Korean flaps were between mid/low back vowels so that the vowels themselves would not affect palatal contacts of the tongue. The results confirmed that the Korean liquid is realized as a flap in intervocallical position with many similar properties to English flap in both EPG and spectrographic data. The Korean initial liquid sound in borrowed words such as "rotary´ and ´radio´ was also a flap. But the Korean liquid in the word-final and geminate positions was a lateral as in words "dol" (stone), "dollo" (with stone), "nal" (day) and ´nallara" (carry). The intuitive theory of the Korean liquid flap was proved by the EPG and spectrographic data.
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