표준말과 문화어의 장단모음 분석 : 최소 대립어를 중심으로 Concentrating on minimal pairs = Analysis of Long and Short Vowels of South and North Korean

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to analyse vowel length of the simple vowels between Seoul and Munwha dialects acoustically. Seoul dialect is considered as standard language of South Korea and Munwha dialect which is spoken in the Pyongyang area is considered as a standard language of North Korea.
For my experimental study, I selected 3 speakers from Seoul and 3 speakers who fled from Pyongyang recently. Six subjects are all males whose ages are between twenty-three and twenty-nine. I selected eight minimal pair words which contains the long and the short vowels altogether, but their meanings are different. Their pronunciations were recorded in a sound-proof room and analysed with the CSL(computerized Speech Lab) at the phonetics laboratory of UCLA.
The result of the study is as follows: First, 6 speakers (including both Seoul and Munwha dialects) differentiate the meanings of the minimal pair words which contain long and short vowels in 38 cases out of 48 cases of the experiments. This proves that in modern Korean the different durations of the minimal pair words in vowels are still significant features to Korean speakers.
Second, Seoul speakers distinguish the different duration of the minimal-pair words in vowels much better than Munwha speakers do. The Seoul speakers were right in 18 cases whereas the Munwha speakers were right in 9 cases. This tells that the Seoul speakers still preserves the tradition of distinctive features of long and short vowels in conversation, while the Munwha speakers do not.
Third, it is noticeable that the Seoul speakers distinguish the duration of the long and the short vowels, especially two back vowels, /ㅏ/ and /ㅡ/ from the other vowels.
Do these two vowels have any special phonetic qualities? This will be my future study of acoustic phonetics.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. 0 서론
• 2. 0 장단모음의 역사적 고찰
• 3. 0 모음분석
• 3.1 녹음을 위한 문장 선택
• 3.2 분석방법
• 3.3 Sigma Plot에서의 분석
• 3.4 분석결과
• 4.0 결론