Abstract
This study compared acoustic characteristics of final stops in Korean and Thai. Word-final stops are phonetically realized as unreleased stops in these languages. Native speakers of Korean and Thai produced monosyllabic words ending with [p t k] in each of their native languages (L1). Formant frequencies of /i a u/ at the vowel's offset were examined. In both languages, the place effect was significant and interacted with the vowel type. For non-front vowels (/a/ and /u/), F2 offset was highest before [t], while for the front vowel (/i/), it was highest before [k]. Preliminary results of a perception experiment with English-speaking listeners suggest that the absence of release bursts is most detrimental to the intelligibility of [k], least for [p] and intermediate for [t].
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004 |
| Editors | S. H. Kim, D. H. Youn |
| Place of Publication | Korea |
| Publisher | Sunjin Printing Co. |
| Pages | 1293-1296 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2004 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004 - Jeju, Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of Duration: 4 Oct 2004 → 8 Oct 2004 |
Other
| Other | 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004 |
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| Country | Korea, Republic of |
| City | Jeju, Jeju Island |
| Period | 4/10/04 → 8/10/04 |