Research Article

Acquisition of Korean Stop Sounds by L2 Learners and the Role of Proficiency : an ERP Study

Cho, Jeonghwa, Hyeon-Ae Jeon, Kichun Nam, Kim, Youngjoo, Sun-Young Lee

University of Michigan
대구경북과학기술원
고려대학교
경희대학교
사이버한국외국어대학교

Published: January 2020 · Vol. 55, No. 5 · pp. 5-29

DOI: https://doi.org/10.20880/kler.2020.55.5.5

Abstract

This study examined the acquisition of Korean stop sounds /t/(ㄷ), /t’/(ㄸ) and /th /(ㅌ) by Chinese learners of Korean using Event-related potentials (ERP). Fifteen advanced learners and ten intermediate learners participated in both a behavioural and an ERP experiment. The intermediate learners were significantly less accurate than the advanced learners in discriminating /t’/ from /t/. The overall ERP result also showed less sensitivity of the intermediate learners compared to the advanced learners to the distinction between different stop sounds. The results indicate that the phonemic acquisition of Korean stop sounds by L2 learners develops as the learners’ proficiency increases

Keywords: Korean stop soundsERPChinese learners of koreanMismatch negativity

REFERENCES (33)

[1]
[1] [학술대회논문] Abramson, A. S./Voice timing in Korean stops/Proceedings of the 7th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences/1971//~/ Google Scholar ›
[2]
[2] [학술대회논문] Bang, H. Y./The effect of word frequency on the time course of tonogenesis in Seoul Korean/In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences/2015//~/ Google Scholar ›
[3]
[3] [단행본] Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning: In Honor of James Emil Flege/Best, C./John Benjamins Publishing/2007/13~34///Nonnative and second-language speech perception: Commonalities and complementarities Google Scholar ›
[4]
[4] [학술지(정기간행물)] Czigler, I./Asymmetry of automatic change detection shown by the visual mismatch negativity: An additional feature is identified faster than missing features/Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience/2014/14(1)/278~285// Google Scholar ›
[5]
[5] [학술지(정기간행물)] Flege, J. E./The production and perception of speech sounds in a foreign language/Human communication and Its Disorders : A Review/1988/2/224~401// Google Scholar ›
[6]
[6] [학술지(정기간행물)] Flege, J. E./Second language speech learning : Theory, findings, and problems/Speech perception and linguistic experience : Issues in cross-language research/1995/92/233~277// Google Scholar ›
[7]
[7] [학술지(정기간행물)] Hisagi, M./The effect of language experience on the ability of non-native listeners to identify Japanese phonemic length contrasts/Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics/2014/21(1)/~// Google Scholar ›
[8]
[8] [학술지(정기간행물)] 황유미/일본어 화자의 한국어 평음/기음/경음의 지각과 산출/말소리/2002/(44)/61~72/대한음성학회/ Google Scholar ›
[9]
[9] [학술지(정기간행물)] Ikeda, K./Asymmetrical mismatch negativity in humans as determined by phonetic but not physical difference/Neuroscience Letters/2002/321/133~136// Google Scholar ›
[10]
[10] [학술지(정기간행물)] 장혜진/숙달도에 따른 중국인 학습자의한국어 어두 폐쇄음 지각/언어과학연구/2014/(68)/335~358/언어과학회/ Google Scholar ›
[11]
[11] [학술지(정기간행물)] Jang, H. S./The study on pronunciation error made by Chinese native speaker in learning Korean/Korean Linguistics/2002/15(6)/211~227// Google Scholar ›
[12]
[12] [학술지(정기간행물)] Kang, Y./Voice Onset Time merger and development of tonal contrast in Seoul Korean stops : A corpus study/Journal of Phonetics/2014/45/76~90// Google Scholar ›
[13]
[13] [학술지(정기간행물)] Kim, C. W./On the autonomy of the tensity feature in stop classification(with special reference to Korean stops)/Word/1965/21(3)/339~359// Google Scholar ›
[14]
[14] [학술대회논문] Kim, C. W./Perception of Korean plosives by L2 learners of Korean/Proceedings of the 5th Korean Studies Association of Australasia/2007//126~134/ Google Scholar ›
[15]
[15] [학술지(정기간행물)] Kim, H./Stroboscopic-cine MRI study of the phasing between the tongue and the larynx in the Korean three-way phonation contrast/Journal of Phonetics/2005/33(1)/1~26// Google Scholar ›
[16]
[16] [학술지(정기간행물)] Kim, S. J./Japanese speakers’ perception errors of Korean lenis, aspirated, and fortis consonants/Communication Sciences and Disorders/2002/7(1)/166~180// Google Scholar ›
[17]
[17] [학술지(정기간행물)] 김소현/베트남인 화자의 한국어 파찰음 발음 연구/한국어학/2013/59/145~168/한국어학회/ Google Scholar ›
[18]
[18] [학술지(정기간행물)] 권성미/외국어 음에 대한 음성적 민감성과 음소 습득 능력에 관한 연구/새국어교육/2013/(97)/209~232/한국국어교육학회/10.15734/koed..97.201312.209 Google Scholar ›
[19]
[19] [학술대회논문] Lee, S. Y./An ERP study on the perception of Korean stop sounds /t/(ㄷ), /t’/(ㄸ) and /th/(ㅌ): Does tonogenesis replace VOT? [Poster presentation]/The Inauguration Ceremony of the Department of Linguistics at BLCU & International Forum on Frontiers in Linguistics/2018//~/ Google Scholar ›
[20]
[20] [학술지(정기간행물)] Liu, H. M./Perceptual and acoustic analysis of speech intelligibility in Mandarin-speaking young adults with cerebral palsy/Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics/2000/14(6)/447~464// Google Scholar ›
[21]
[21] [학술지(정기간행물)] Linnavalli, T./Phoneme processing skills are reflected in children’s MMN responses/Neuropsychologia/2017/101/76~84// Google Scholar ›
[22]
[22] [학술지(정기간행물)] Näätänen, R./Language-specific phoneme representations revealed by electric and magnetic brain responses/Nature/1997/385(6615)/432~// Google Scholar ›
[23]
[23] [학술지(정기간행물)] Näätänen, R./The mismatch negativity(MMN)in basic research of central auditory processing : a review/Clinical Neurophysiology/2007/118(12)/2544~2590// Google Scholar ›
[24]
[24] [학술지(정기간행물)] Näätänen, R./The mismatch negativity(MMN) : towards the optimal paradigm/Clinical Neurophyology/2004/115(1)/140~144// Google Scholar ›
[25]
[25] [학술지(정기간행물)] 박시균/중국인 학습자의 한국어 폐쇄음 인지 양상 연구/언어/2018/43(4)/721~736/한국언어학회/10.18855/lisoko.2018.43.4.003 Google Scholar ›
[26]
[26] [학술지(정기간행물)] Politzer-Ahles, S./Asymmetries in the perception of Mandarin tones : Evidence from mismatch negativity/Journal of Experimental Psychology : Human Perception and Performance/2016/42(10)/1547~1570// Google Scholar ›
[27]
[27] [학술지(정기간행물)] Polka, L./Natural referent vowel(NRV)framework : an emerging view of early phonetic development/Journal of Phonetics/2011/39/467~478// Google Scholar ›
[28]
[28] [학술지(정기간행물)] Shtyrov, Y./Neurophysiological evidence of memory traces for words in the human brain/Neuroreport/2002/13/521~525// Google Scholar ›
[29]
[29] [학술지(정기간행물)] Strange, W./Automatic selective perception(ASP)of first and second language speech : A working model/Journal of phonetics/2011/39(4)/456~466// Google Scholar ›
[30]
[30] [학술지(정기간행물)] White, E. J./Phonological processing in late second language learners : The effects of proficiency and task/Bilingualism : Language and Cognition/2015/20(1)/1~22// Google Scholar ›
[31]
[31] [학술지(정기간행물)] Winkler, I./Brain responses reveal the learning of foreign language phonemes/Psychophysiology/1999/36(5)/638~642// Google Scholar ›
[32]
[32] [학술지(정기간행물)] 양삼기/학습 환경과 학습 기간에 따른 중국인 학습자의 파찰음 발음 연구－실험음성학적 분석을 중심으로－/한말연구/2014/(35)/101~131/한말연구학회/10.16876/klrc.2014..35.101 Google Scholar ›
[33]
[33] [학술지(정기간행물)] 주림결/중국인 KFL 학습자의 파열음 발음 연구/이중언어학/2014/(54)/315~341/이중언어학회/10.17296/korbil.2014..54.315 Google Scholar ›

Publication History

Published 2020-01-01

Metrics

Cited by 3