중국인 한국어 학습자의 폐쇄음 발음에 대한 한국인의 지각 연구

A Study on the Perceptual Characteristics by Koreans of the Pronunciation of Stop sound by the Chinese Korean learners

This study is on how Koreans categorize phonemes from pronunciation of the Korean stop sounds of Chinese students in Korean beginner’s class. Also, focuses on difficulties Korean learners have when learning Korean stop sounds. For this study, an experiment on speech product was performed on 10 Chinese students learning Korean, with the data Perception experiment was performed on three Phonetic experts. From the pronunciation of Korean learners correct perception ratio for lax consonants were an average of 17.6% and lower on syllable initial consonants. In addition, depending on the phonological environment of the phoneme different perceptual categories were observed, on the initial sound position lax consonant perceived as aspirated consonant and on the word medial sound position lax consonant perceived as tense consonant was found as a result. Based on these results, education methods for Korean stop sounds which can be placed in various environment was presented.