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General Linguistics Course, Univ. of Tsukuba (Japanese only)

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Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the `intrinsic F0' and `intrinsic duration' of Korean vowels.

Nonsense words with 7 vowels and 3 types of syllable structure were recorded both in isolation and in a carrier sentence by 3 native speakers.

The results showed that:
(1) close vowels have a higher F0 than open vowels,
(2) [u] has a higher F0 than [i] (in most data),
(3) [u] has a higher F0 than [ɯ] (in one subject's data),
(4) intrinsic F0 differences between open and close vowels are larger in the closed syllable with syllable-final [m] than in the open syllable, and
(5) close vowels have shorter duration than open vowels.

(1), (2), (3) and (5) agree with other languages' data in the previous studies, while (4) needs further investigation with more data.