Criteria for British and American English Viewed from Back Vowels:

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Myung ki Oh Hyun jee Kang
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제92호, 217~231쪽, 전체 15쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2017.01.01

영문 초록

This case study investigated whether an experiment group of thirty-two Korean college students well corresponded to the height of back vowel /ɔ/, the lip-rounding of /ɒ/ and /ɑ/, and the vowel merging of cot - caught as the criteria for telling British from American English. This research finds its meaning in elucidating Korean college students’ perceptual gap or misconception in discriminating British English from American English within the boundary of English vowel height and roundness, and bring to light the possible background reasons. About the vowel /ɔ/, their judgement was seriously hurt because their perception of the vowel height was negatively influenced by non-linguistic factors like the preoccupation about a particular English. On the other hand, they well adopted and used the lip-rounding difference between /ɒ/ and /ɑ/ as a criterion. However, they failed to use the vowel merging of cot and caught as another criterion because most of the Korean students had not fully familiarized themselves with the vowel merging.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Rationale

3. Method

4. Results

5. Discussion

6. Limitation

7. Conclusion

References

키워드

height of back vowel lip-rounding of back vowel vowel merging non-linguistic factors