Acoustic Analysis of Korean L2 Learners in the Acquisition of English and Japanese Stop Voicing Contrasts
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The present study examines phonetic characteristics of Korean L2 learners in their acquisition of English and Japanese stop voicing contrasts. Voice onset time (VOT) was measured on their Korean, English and Japanese utterances, and it was found that VOT is functional in distinguishing a three-way contrast of Korean stops, and that Korean L2 learners use their tense, unaspirated stops for voiced stops in English and Japanese, but it was not clearly shown how they use other types of categories for voiceless stops in English and Japanese. Phonological features /VOICE, ASPIRATED, TENSE/ were proposed to specify the laryngeal characteristics of Korean, English and Japanese.
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