[DOI: 10.17959/sppm.2024.30.2.93]

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Planning for obstruent tensification in speech production processing

Miyeon Ahn (Hankyong National University)

Abstract 

Most speech production models assume multiple levels of processing representations, wherein  conceptual,  grammatical  and  phonological  encoding  are  sequentially processed (Dell 1986, Levelt 1989, Goldrick and Rapp 2007). These representational distinctions  reveal  that  speech  production  is  a  staged  procedure,  in  which undoubtedly  subsequent  procedures  are  modulated  by  the  output  of  the  former representation (Levelt et al. 1999). In this work, we explore obligatory obstruent tensification  in  Korean  and  examine  its  temporal  phonetic  variation  in  order  to understand  where  the  variants  originate  within  the  framework  of  the  speech production model. Based on the results of a production experiment, we suggest that obstruent tensification emerges as a result of phonological processing during the speech production process. 

Keywords 

Speech production, obstruent tensification, phonological process, levels of representations