Overlapping of Back Vowels /o/ and /u/ by Young Seoul Korean Speakers: Focusing on the Effect of Preceding Consonantal Type and Utterance Unit on Overlap in Formant Distribution

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  • Igeta Takako
    J. F. Oberlin University, Institute for Japanese Language and Culture
  • Hiroya Sadao
    NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation
  • Arai Takayuki
    Sophia University, Department of Information and Communication Sciences

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  • 若年層韓国語ソウル方言における/o/と/u/の言語変化の一側面―先行子音種と発話単位の違いが2母音の重なりに与える影響―
  • ジャクネンソウ カンコクゴ ソウル ホウゲン ニ オケル/o/ト/u/ノ ゲンゴ ヘンカ ノ イチソクメン : センコウ シインシュ ト ハツワ タンイ ノ チガイ ガ 2 ボイン ノ カサナリ ニ アタエル エイキョウ

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<p>This study investigated overlapping of /o/ and /u/ in young Seoul Korean speakers' lenis/aspirated CV syllables, and discusses its results with previous studies' observations of overlapping in speech units of different length. Male speakers showed no overlapping in the lenis CV context, but did in the aspirated CV context. Females showed overlapping in both contexts, with greater overlapping in the aspirated. By comparing with previous V and read speech studies, it suggests that overlapping may be related to coarticulation and clarity reduction for males. For females, there is a possibility that the presence of C reduces overlapping in V.</p>

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