The purpose of this study is to prove the objective plausibility based on the “learning expedited phenomenon” of Lado (1957). China has different dialects in each region and has a high frequency of dialect use, which makes the native tongue their ...
The purpose of this study is to prove the objective plausibility based on the “learning expedited phenomenon” of Lado (1957). China has different dialects in each region and has a high frequency of dialect use, which makes the native tongue their dialect that they have been using since birth. Therefore, this study attempted to study the learning of Korean pronunciation in beginner Korean students in
Cantonese speakers by changing the perspective of the native tongue as “help” rather than “interference.” Especially, the pronunciation of the ending sounds shows that Cantonese has not only the two nasal endings of [-n] and [-ŋ] of standard Chinese, but also has the nasal
[-m] and the plosive ending sounds of [-p], [-t], and [-k], which makes them tend to have higher understanding of the ending pronunciations compared to the Chinese learners of other areas who do not use Cantonese as their native tongue, and carried out an experiment using Praat.
However, the spectrogram only tells us that there are certain characteristics in certain sounds and when that sound is pronounced again, such a characteristic will occur again. It does not tell us when we recognize certain sounds, if we are using all of the characteristics as the keys. The acoustics from the spectrogram are not simple and the speech of Korean speakers has many other factors, which makes it very difficult to evaluate one factor for its effect on our auditory sense.
Despite this, this study has a few specific achievements that can be summarized as the following: First, it is scholarly meaningful that we approached the ending pronunciation of the Korean by the Cantonese learner that has not been discussed in existing Korean education studies in a phonetics and acoustics perspective. Second,
the ending pronunciation that was vaguely estimated in the existing studies for the Cantonese learners were evaluated objectively with proper data. Third, this may be helpful in providing a new approach for the Korean teachers in teaching the beginner pronunciation for the Cantonese learners.
However, there were a few limitations in the study process and deduction of the results, which lead to the issues of this study and the necessity of the follow-up studies. First, to find the exact foment of the ending pronunciation, the internal and external conditions of the subjects may affect the results significantly, which may not have been determined by the spectrogram. A larger number of samples would be able to overcome this limitation. Second, the various voice analysis software, such as SFSWin or Signalyze were not tested, except for Praat, which lacks the variety in discovering the ending
sounds of the samples. The researchers in the phonetics and acoustics fields for Korean education may need to utilize multiple voice analysis programs. Third, the targets selected as standard Chinese learners were not evaluated to determine if they spoke any other dialects, other than Cantonese. This may be solved by carefully selecting the target. This study has a few remarkable results as well
as a few limitations, which may be encouraging to the
future researchers to perfect the topic to gain better results.
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