Ahn, Miyeon. 2021. Phonetic variations of Korean liquids in Seoul Corpus. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 27.2. 215-228. The purpose of this study is to explore the acoustic aspects of the Korean liquid ‘l’ by examining spontaneous speech of Seoul Korean from Seoul Corpus (Yun et al. 2015). The Korean liquid appears in various positions within a word, although word-initial occurrences are limited to loanwords. In this study, we classified Korean liquids into separate categories depending on their phonological contexts, and then analyzed the acoustic nature of the liquids in each category. Both the temporal and spectral properties of the liquids were found to be gradient rather than categorical. (Hankyong National University, Assistant professor)

Keywords: liquid, Korean, phonological contexts, Seoul Corpus

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