Percepção de consoantes oclusivas em posição inicial de palavra por estudantes de língua portuguesa na Coreia do Sul = Perception of occlusive consonants in word initial position by Portuguese language students in South Korea

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This article presents an initial analysis of data collected on the perception of sounds of the Portuguese language by native Korean speakers, students in the initial learning phase at BUFS (Busan University of Foreign Studies - Busan University of Foreign Studies), South Korea. We discuss some of the several systems of Korean romanization and its idiosyncrasies. We continue commenting briefly on the phonological systems of both languages and comparing them face to face, demonstrating their points of divergence that may create problems when teaching Portuguese. We then discuss the experiment developed with words selected from divergent points in each language’s phonological system and present the methodology by which the data were collected, as well as the forms of computational processing used. Finally, we focus on the analysis of the occlusive consonants in word initial position since they present great difficulty for Korean students. We present results that the perception of voiceless (/p, t, k/) and voiced (/b, d, g/) consonant phonemes in Portuguese is not something simple that can be taught without effort. At the end of the article, we briefly propose a didactic approach on the problems raised about teaching Portuguese phonetics/phonology to Koreans.