The aspects of stop voicing in L1 and Korean-spoken L2 Englishes in regards to the place of articulation

Abstract

The aim of this study is to compare the aspects, particularly the occurrence of vocal folds vibration during the stop closure, of the stop consonants [b], [d], and [g] produced by the Native Speakers of English and Korean EFL Speakers. It will be examined whether stop voicing in the onset and coda positions is influenced by the place of articulation. Based on K-SEC (Korean-Spoken English Corpus), i) Korean Speakers' productions of the isolated words which have the voiced stops [b], [d], and [g] as onsets, followed by six different vowels [i], [e], [s], [a], [o], and [u], and ii) the same voiced codas preceded by the aforementioned vowels are to be used for the analysis. Aspects of the initial and final stop voicing manifested by Native Speakers are also to be analyzed and then compared with those by the Korean learners of English.