Voice Onset Time merger and development of tonal contrast in Seoul Korean stops: A corpus study

Y Kang - Journal of Phonetics, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper is an apparent-time study of sound change in a three-way laryngeal contrast of
Korean stops. The data are drawn from a read speech corpus distributed by the National …

The emergence, progress, and impact of sound change in progress in Seoul Korean: Implications for mechanisms of tonogenesis

HY Bang, M Sonderegger, Y Kang, M Clayards… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study examines the origin, progression, and impact of a sound change in Seoul Korean
where the primary cue to a stop contrast in phrase-initial position is shifting from VOT to f0 …

Diachronic change and synchronic variation in the Korean stop laryngeal contrast

H Lee, JJ Holliday, EJ Kong - Language and Linguistics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this review, we survey the acoustic and perceptual properties of the three‐way laryngeal
contrast among voiceless stops in Korean. Paying special attention to variation across …

Tonogenesis in early Contemporary Seoul Korean: A longitudinal case study

Y Kang, S Han - Lingua, 2013 - Elsevier
A series of recent apparent time studies observed that Seoul Korean is undergoing a
tonogenetic sound change whereby the VOT contrast between aspirated and lenis stops in …

VOT merger in Heritage Korean in Toronto

Y Kang, N Nagy - Language Variation and Change, 2016 - cambridge.org
Korean has a typologically unusual three-way laryngeal contrast in voiceless stops among
aspirated, lenis, and fortis stops. Seoul Korean is undergoing a female-led sound change in …

How cute do I sound to you?: Gender and age effects in the use and evaluation of Korean baby-talk register, Aegyo

H Jang - Language Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper examines how segmental strategies of the baby-talk register in Korean, Aegyo,
are used and evaluated through usage frequency analysis on Twitter and a cuteness rating …

Incipient tonogenesis in Phnom Penh Khmer: Acoustic and perceptual studies

JP Kirby - Journal of Phonetics, 2014 - Elsevier
Unlike many languages of Southeast Asia, Khmer (Cambodian) is not a tone language.
However, in the colloquial speech of the capital Phnom Penh,/r/is lost in onsets, reportedly …

Individual differences in categorical judgment of L2 stops: A link to proficiency and acoustic cue-weighting

EJ Kong, S Kang - Language and Speech, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This study investigated individual differences in Korean adult learners' categorical
perception of L2 English stops with an aim to explore the relationship of gradient …

Lack of early sensitivity and gradual emergence of native phoneme categories: A pattern from underrepresented language learners

Y Choi, M Nam, N Yamane… - Developmental science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Perceptual narrowing of speech perception supposes that young infants can discriminate
most speech sounds early in life. During the second half of the first year, infants' phonetic …

Effects of sound change on the weighting of acoustic cues to the three-way laryngeal stop contrast in Korean: Diachronic and dialectal comparisons

H Lee, A Jongman - Language and speech, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Both segmental and suprasegmental properties of the South Kyungsang dialect of Korean
have changed under the influence of standard Seoul Korean. This study examines how such …