중국인 KFL 학습자의 파열음 발음 연구

A Study on the Chinese KFL Learners’ Stops Pronunciation

This research analyzed how the Chinese KFL learners pronounced the stops in Korean via a series of production analysis, acoustic-phonetic experiment. Compared with the Korean native speakers, the research also illustrated the reasons why the Chinese learners made pronunciation errors in a certain way. The experiment is running between 60 Chinese KFL learners and 20 Korean native speakers. According to the production analysis, second year learners had improved accuracy in pronunciations of aspirate than lenis and fortis, and third year learners revealed more accuracy in pronunciations of fortis and aspirate rather than lenis. In fourth year learners, lenis pronunciation was more accurate than fortis and aspirate in word-initial positions, but aspirate was more accurate than lenis and fortis in word-medial positions. According to the acoustic-phonetics experiment, second and third year learners could not properly distinguish between lenis and fortis, and during lenis pronunciation students maintained a long CD so that it sounded as fortis. Unlike second and third year learners, fourth year learners were able to distinguish between lenis and fortis but could not do so between lenis and aspirate, and revealed a significant difference with native Koreans in terms of lenis pronunciation.