남북한의 모음분석

Abstract

This paper aims to acoustically analyze the vowel systems of North and South Korean dialects and find the phonological rules which exist in the two dialects. In my paper North Korean dialect refers to the Pyongyang dialect which is considered to be Standard North Korean and South Korean dialect refers to Seoul dialect which is considered to be Standard South Korean. For my research three speakers from Seoul and three speakers who fled from Pyongyang recent1y were selected. The six subjects were all males whose ages were between twenty-three and twenty-nine. 1 selected eight minimal pairs which contained the long and the short vowels but their meanings are different. Each word was read in the sentence 1 said " The pronunciation of the six subjects was recorded in a sound-proof room and analyzed with the CSL (computerized speech lab) at the phonetics laboratories of UCLA and Hong-Ik University. The results of the experiment are as follows.