A Unified Phonetic Study of Korean Stop Consonants

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the consonant sound system of Korean, particularly the nature of the stop consonants, from the standpoint of unified phonetics(1) in other words, to analyze and describe the sounds genetically as they are produced by the movement of speech-organs, and genemically as the sounds are interpreted in terms of their acoustic phenomena after they have been produced. This sort of unified approach to the study of speech sounds comprises all possible approaches such as acoustic, articulatory and kinesiologic.