읽기장애아동과 일반아동의 통사적 다양성에 따른 운율 특성 비교

박성숙(Sungsook Park),성철재(Cheoljae Seong) 한국음성학회 2021 말소리와 음성과학 Vol.13 No.4

읽기와 관련된 운율은 내용의 전체적인 맥락에 연결되어 독자가 전달하고자 하는 의미를 자연스럽게 표현할 수 있도록 음도, 강도, 발화속도 등의 변화로 나타난다. 읽기장애아동은 자연스러운 운율을 사용한 읽기에 어려움이 있어 표현력 있게 정보를 전달하지 못하는 경향이 있다. 이와 관련하여 본 연구는 문장 유형에 따른 읽기 과제를 통하여 읽기장애아동 집단과 일반아동 집단 간의 운율 특성 차이를 규명하였다. 초등학교 3-6학년 읽기장애아동 15명, 일반아동 15명을 대상으로 통사적으로 다양한 문장 유형(단문, 의도, 가정/조건, 관형절 내포문)에 따른 읽기 과제를 실시하였다. 읽기장애아동은 일반아동에 비해 음도 범위가 넓었으며 읽기 속도와 조음 속도가 느렸다. 또한 휴지 빈도가 높았으며 전체 휴지 지속시간도 길었다. 읽기장애아동은 문미 억양구와 문장 내 어절 단위 음도 기울기에서 일반아동에 비해 기울기 값이 컸으며 이상의 내용은 모두 통계적으로 유의하였다. 결과적으로 문장 유형에 따른 읽기 과제에서 읽기장애아동은 일반아동에 비해 자연스럽고 표현력 있는 읽기에 어려움을 보였다. 본 연구를 통해 읽기장애아동의 운율 특성을 파악하였고, 효과적인 중재를 위한 접근 방법의 필요성을 제시했다. Proper prosody in reading allows the reader to naturally convey the meaning, which manifests as changes in pitch, loudness, and speech rate. Children with reading disability face difficulty in delivering information due to poor prosody. This study identified the difference in prosodic features between children with reading disabilities and nondisabled children through means of reading tasks. Reading tasks, according to sentence types (short sentences, assumptions/conditions, intentions, relative-clause), were recorded by 15 children studying in the 3rd to 6th grade in elementary school. Children with reading disability had a statistically significant wider range of pitch, slower speech rate, more frequent usage of pauses, longer total pause duration, and steeper pitch slope than nondisabled one in sentence-final and -medial words. Children with reading disability, therefore, exhibited a less natural and expressive reading than nondisabled children. Through this study, the characteristics of prosody observed in children with reading disability were identified and the need for an approach for effective intervention was also suggested.

경도 마비말장애 환자의 발화 유형에 따른 모음 특성 비교

김지연(Kim, Jiyoun),성철재(Seong, Cheoljae) 한국음성학회 2016 말소리와 음성과학 Vol.8 No.3

The purpose of present study is to examine differences between habitual speech (HS) and clear speech (CS) in individuals with mild dysarthria. Twelve speakers with mild dysarthria and twelve healthy control speakers read sentences in two speaking styles. Formant and intensity related values, triangular area, and center of gravity of /a/, /i/, and /u/ were measured. In addition, formant-ratio variables such as vowel space area(VSA), vowel articulatory index (VAI), formant centralization ratio (FCR) and F2i/F1u ratio (F2 ratio) were calculated. The results of repeated-measures ANOVA showed a significant difference in F2 of vowel /i/ and F2 energy of vowel /a/ between groups. Regarding formant energy, F2 energy of vowel /a/ were observed as meaningful variables between speaking styles. There were significant speaking style-by-group interactions for F2 energy of vowel /a/. These findings indicated that current parameters could discriminate healthy group and mild dysarthria group meaningfully and that speaker with dysarthria had larger clear speech benefit than healthy talkers. We also claim that various acoustic changes of clear speech may contribute to improving vowel intelligibility.

좌반구 손상과 우반구 손상 뇌졸중 환자의 의문문 유형에 따른 운율 특성 비교

유영미(Youngmi Yu),성철재(Cheoljae Seong) 한국음성학회 2021 말소리와 음성과학 Vol.13 No.3

의사소통에 중요한 역할을 하는 운율은 기능에 따라 언어적 운율과 정서적 운율로 구분한다. 대뇌 편재화 관점에서 정서적 운율 처리는 우반구가 주로 담당한다는 결과가 일반론적으로 받아들여지지만, 언어적 운율에 대한 연구들은, 연구간의 방법적인 차이로 인해 결과가 상이하게 나타난다. 본 연구는 정상 화자 9명과 뇌졸중 환자 14명(좌반구 손상 7명, 우반구 손상 7명)의 세 집단을 대상으로 대뇌 편재화의 관점에서 언어적 운율 특성을 살펴보기 위해 세 가지 형태 의문문(의문사 의문문, 예-아니오 의문문, 선택 의문문)에서의 발화속도, 지속시간, 음도, 강도와 관련된 운율 특징을 청지각 평가와 함께 살펴보았다. 연구결과, 통계적으로 유의한 주요변수들이 좌반구 손상 환자의 자료에서 결함을 보였으며, 예-아니오 의문문과 선택 의문문보다 의문사 의문문에서 더욱 두드러졌다. 이러한 경향은 특히 음도와 발화속도 관련 변수들에서 두드러졌다. 본 연구의 결과는 한국어 사용자의 의문사 사용에 있어서 어휘-의미론적, 구문론적 정보와 같은 언어학적으로 관련 있는 운율 처리의 경우 우반구보다 좌반구에서 대체로 우세하다는 점을 방증한다. This study examined the characteristics of linguistic prosody in terms of cerebral lateralization in three groups of 9 healthy speakers and 14 speakers with a history of stroke (7 with left hemisphere damage (LHD), 7 with right hemisphere damage (RHD)). Specifically, prosodic characteristics related to speech rate, duration, pitch, and intensity were examined in three types of interrogative sentences (wh-questions, yes-no questions, alternative questions) with auditory perceptual evaluation. As a result, the statistically significant key variables showed flaws in production of the linguistic prosody in the speakers with LHD. The statistically significant variables were more insufficiently produced for wh-questions than for yes-no and alternative questions. This trend was particularly noticeable in variables related to pitch and speech rate. This result suggests that when Korean speakers process linguistic prosody, such as that of lexico-semantic and syntactic information in interrogative sentences, the left hemisphere seems to be superior to the right hemisphere.

중국인 학습자의 한국어 강세구 성조패턴과 기울기 특성

인지영(In, Jiyoung),성철재(Seong, Cheoljae) 한국음성학회 2013 말소리와 음성과학 Vol.5 No.3

The purpose of this study is to analyse prosodic characteristics of accentual phrases (AP, hereafter) produced by Chinese learners of Korean in Korean text reading. The study is restricted only to the initial APs. Subjects are students who have been studying Korean at a beginner level. The results showed that Chinese learners of Korean tended to make errors in the realization of the tonal patterns of the initial 2 syllables of the initial APs. Also they showed different F0 slopes across the initial and second syllables in the initial APs. Chinese learners of Korean, therefore, need to focus on the prosodic characteristics of the initial 2 syllables of Korean APs to realize fluent Korean intonation.

발성방법에 따른 소프라노 성악도의 음성 특성

김정택(Kim, Jungtaek),성철재(Seong, Cheoljae) 한국음성학회 2017 말소리와 음성과학 Vol.9 No.3

The purpose of this study is to find clues to the risk of voice disorders in soprano students. The subjects of the study were 17 soprano students and 18 general students (women). The phonation of vowels /a/, /i/, and /u/ with C4 and F4 notes in each group were recorded. Then, only soprano students were made to record their classical vocalization containing vibrato. Formant, formant energy, bandwidth, VAI (vowel area index), VSA (vowel space area) and L/H ratio were analyzed. There was significant difference in F3 such that the singers’ note was measured around 3 kHz which seems to be 400 Hz higher than one from general students. But, There was no significant difference in L/H ratio between soprano student and the general student. There was a significant difference in F3 in the comparison of the soprano students’ two vocalization methods. Classical vocalization was measured at 200Hz higher than sustained phonation in F3. Vocal tract adjustment was made and vowel space changed, but there was no significant difference in F3 energy, which is the index of singers’ formant according to the phonation method. The L/H ratio, which can be a direct indicator of vocal effort, has no difference in phonation method and is lowered in all phonation methods as the pitch increases. C4 and F4 pitches are lower than the singing range of the soprano. When the pitch changes, vocal effort increases like a general student which will be an indicator of the risk of vocalization. This will be a clue to the vocalization of the immature soprano student.

아동의 유음 /ㄹ/에 대한 지각 및 산출 연구

김인경(Ingyeong Kim),성철재(Cheoljae Seong) 사단법인 한국언어학회 2020 언어학 Vol.0 No.86

This study examined the perceptual and acoustic characteristics of Korean liquid sounds produced by normal children. Children aged 4 with normal development produced 4 types of nonsense syllables containing liquid sounds in /Vl/, /VlbV/, /VllV/ and /VrV/ sequences where V was any one of three corner vowels (/i, a, and u/). The articulation ability of children was assessed and divided into 2 groups (well-performed vs. poor execution) along with 7-point Likert scale and their accuracy of consonants was analyzed. Acoustic variables such as duration ratio (lateral over word), spectral energy ratio (lateral energy over word energy) in utterances and center of gravity of the spectrum of liquid sounds were selected. There was statistically significant difference in the percentage of correct consonant production(%correct) according to the phonological environment in all vowels. The accuracy of lateral consonants was higher than that of flaps. The acoustically analyzed results revealed a significant difference between groups with respect to the duration ratio and energy ratio. This study suggests that the liquid sounds in children’s utterance have differences in the development depending on the positions in word.

아동이 산출한 치조마찰음 /ㅅ/에 대한 청지각적·음향학적 연구

김지연(Kim, Jiyoun),성철재(Seong, Cheoljae) 한국음성학회 2018 말소리와 음성과학 Vol.10 No.3

This study examined the acoustic characteristics of Korean alveolar fricatives of normal children. Developing children aged 3 and 7, typically produced 2 types of nonsense syllables containing alveolar fricative /sV/ and /VsV/ sequences where V was any one of three corner vowels (/i, a, and u/). Stimuli containing the speech materials used in a production experiment were presented randomly to 12 speech language pathologists (SLPs) for a perception test. The SLPs responded by selecting one of seven alternative sounds. Acoustic measures such as duration of frication noise, normalized intensity, skewness, and center of gravity were examined. There was significant difference in acoustic measures when comparing vowels. Comparison of syllable structures indicated statistically significant differences in duration of frication noise and normalized intensity. Acoustic parameters could account for the perceptual data. Relating the acoustic and perception data by means of logistic regression suggests that duration of frication noise and normalized intensity are the primary cues to perceiving Korean fricatives.

학령전기아동 관련 성인의 운율 특성

김지원(Kim, Jiwon),성철재(Seong, Cheoljae) 한국음성학회 2014 말소리와 음성과학 Vol.6 No.3

This study presents the prosodic characteristics of "Motherese" and "Teacherese (child care teacher and kindergarten teacher)". 21 mothers and 24 teachers spoke to children in the child care center or kindergarten. Children are in their 4;00-6;11. Speech and articulation rate, number of accentual phrases (APs), number of intonational phrases (IPs), pitch-related factors (f0, pitch range, f0 standard deviation), and intonation slope (mean Absolute, f0, q-tone slope) were measured. 2 groups spoke 2 sentential types (interrogative_ alternative question, declarative_ coordinated sentence) in 2 situations (one accompanied with the children, the other done without children, but pretending as if they were in front of the children). The results indicate that teachers show more noticeable prosodic characteristics than mothers do.

만 2-4세 한국 아동의 단모음과 이중모음 산출 특징

송인미(Song, Inmi),성철재(Seong, Cheoljae) 한국음성학회 2018 말소리와 음성과학 Vol.10 No.1

The purpose of this study is to investigate age-specific features of 2;1- to 4;1-year -olds’ production of monophthongs and diphthongs through both auditory perceptual analysis and acoustic analysis. Test material included {vowel+‘da’} consisting of 7 monophthongs and 10 diphthongs and meaningful words beginning with vowels. The percentage of correct vowels was used for perceptual analysis and Praat(5.2.12) was used for acoustic analysis, analyzing variables related to monophthongs and diphthongs. The results of this study are as follows: First, perceptual analysis showed that children from an age group of 2;1 to 2;8 years showed significant difference in the accuracy level of both monophthongs and diphthongs as compared to those aged 2;9 to 3;4 years and those aged 3;5 to 4;1 years. Second, the results of acoustic analysis provided that formant (F1 and F2) of monophthong, in general, tended to decrease as age increased. In terms of F2 differentiation slope and regression slope, which were diphthong-related variables, the age group of 3;5 to 4;1 years showed a large general slope change.

따라말하기 과제를 통한 자폐범주성 장애 아동과 일반 아동의 평서문과 의문문의 음향학적 특성 비교

이진형(Jinhyung Lee),성철재(Cheoljae Seong) 한국음성학회 2020 말소리와 음성과학 Vol.12 No.2

언어의 운율은 억양, 리듬, 강세로 구성되어 있고 운율 요소는 상호 복합적인 작용을 통하여 언어의 고유한 리듬을 형성한다. 자폐범주성 장애 아동은 자연스러운 운율 학습에 어려움이 있어 정확한 의미와 정보 전달에 어려움이있어 자폐범주성 장애 아동의 운율에 대한 연구가 중요하다. 평서문과 의문문 따라말하기 과제를 통하여 자폐범주성 장애 아동 집단과 일반 아동 집단 간의 운율 특성 차이를 구명하고 어말 길이에 따라 의문문에서의 음도기울기와 청자와의 지각관계를 알아보았다. 7-12세 일반 아동 30명, 자폐범주성 장애 아동 20명을 대상으로 언어 평가 후 20문장 따라말하기 과제를 실시하였다. 청지각 과제로는 115문장이 사용되었다. 자폐범주성 장애 아동이 일반 아동에 비해 음도와 강도가 높고, 발화속도가 느리며 음도 기울기가 낮았다. 자폐범주성 장애 아동은 평서문과 의문문의 산출에서 음도와 강도에 유의한 차이를 보이지 않았다. 자폐범주성 장애 아동은 의문문 1음절에서 평서문과 가장 큰 기울기 차이를 보였으며 5음절 의문문 산출에서 가장 낮은 기울기 값을 보였다. 청지각 평가 결과 청자는 4.3%만 자폐범주성 장애 아동의 의문문을 의문문으로 지각하였다. 결과적으로 평서문과 의문문 따라말하기에서 자폐범주성 장애아동이 일반 아동에 비해 음도와 강도가 높고, 발화속도가 느리며, 낮은 음도기울기를 보였다. 이러한 운율패턴 때문에 청자는 의문문을 평서문으로 인식하였고 원인은 규명되지 않았지만 화용능력이나 다른 자폐적 특징의 결함과 관련이 있다고 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 자폐범주성 장애 아동의 이러한 억양 패턴을 확인하였고 운율 개선을 위한 치료 개발의 필요성을 제시했다. The prosody of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has several abnormal features, including monotonous speech. The purpose of this study was to compare acoustic features between an ASD group and a typically developing (TD) group and within the ASD group. The study also examined audience perceptions of the lengthening effect of increasing the number of syllables. 50 participants were divided into two groups (20 with ASD and 30 TD), and they were asked to imitate a total of 28 sentences. In the auditory-perceptual evaluation, seven participants chose sentence types in 115 sentences. Pitch, intensity, speech rate, and pitch slope were used to analyze the significant differences. In conclusion, the ASD group showed higher pitch and intensity and a lower overall speaking rate than the TD group. Moreover, there were significant differences in s2 slope of interrogative sentences. Finally, based on the auditory-perceptual evaluation, only 4.3% of interrogative sentences produced by participants with ASD were perceived as declarative sentences. The cause of this abnormal prosody has not been clearly identified; however, pragmatic ability and other characteristics of autism are related to ASD prosody. This study identified prosodic ASD patterns and suggested the need to develop treatments to improve prosody.