베트남 화자의 한국어 모음 지각 연구
이주희 (경희대학교)
Abstract
This study aims to reveal how Vietnamese speakers perceive and categorize the target
Korean vowels through perceptual experiments of Korean vowels on Vietnamese
speakers. It is widely known that perceptions related to the category of the native
language (L1) have a profound effect on the learning of the target language (L2). In
this paper, based on the production and cognitive research of previous studies on
Korean and Vietnamese vowels, we shall discuss how Vietnamese speakers perceive
Korean vowels and categorize them in the category of Vietnamese vowels. Hence,
two experiments conducted on northern Vietnamese speakers both elementary and
higher level of Korean learners. Firstly, Experiment 1 (L2-L2 identification test) aims
to know how northern Vietnamese speakers perceive Korean vowels, and what errors
they show. The following Experiment 2 (L2-L1 labelling test) is to know how
Vietnamese speakers perceive Korean vowels and mapped into Vietnamese vowels
category at the same time, and then evaluate the degree of similarity between the two
connected vowels. Thus, the results of experiments shows that Vietnamese speakers
tried to classify the merged Korean vowel E(/e, ɛ/) into two different categories of
Vietnamese vowels <ê> and <e> and it was also found that the perception of the
rounded vowel /u/ and /ô/ in in Vietnamese vowels.
Keywords
perception, vowel, L2 Korean, northern Vietnamese, labelling, category mapping