Sang Yee Cheon
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sang Yee Cheon plays a role.
Articles
2008 Acoustic and Perceptual Similarities Between English and Korean Sibilants: Implications for Second Language Acquisition Korean Linguistics 14, pp. 41–64 | Article
Abstract. Foreign accent has been assumed to be closely related to the degree of articulatory, acoustic and perceptual similarity between L1 and L2 sounds. This study examined cross-language acoustic and perceptual similarities between Korean and English sibilant fricatives: Korean [—tense] /s/… read more
2006 Production of Korean Fricatives in Second Language Acquisition: Acoustic Characteristics Korean Linguistics 13, pp. 17–48 | Article
Abstract. This article examines the acoustic characteristics of Korean fricatives (lax /s/ and tense /s*/) in three vowel contexts (/a/, /i/, and /u/) in the speech of AE learners of Korean. AE learners fall into two groups based on their proficiency. Acoustically, Korean /s*/ is more similar to… read more