초급 중국인 학습자의 한국어 자음 발음 유형 분석 -음절 경계의 자음을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The goal of this study is to analyze articulatory errors of Korean consonants in the pronunciations of Chinese learners in Korean. In articulating Korean words, to enunciate any consonant sequence of a syllable boundary means to vocalize a final consonant by overlapping it with the subsequent initial consonant. This paper investigates these Korean phonological phenomena through the findings of Chinese students’ Korean pronunciations. There are three basic types of errors in phonetics at the consonantal sequences of syllable boundaries when Chinese students phonate Korean. Firstly, the syllable final deletion which is considered as the most typical error from Chinese learners occurs in various types of consonantal sequences. Although Chinese /n, ŋ/ can be distributed in syllable final positions, the Chinese students tend to delete Korean syllable finals such as ‘ㄴ,ㅇ’ due to their both distributional restrictions and characteristics of deleting convention of their native language. Secondly, the syllable initial alternation occurred in an isolated syllables can happen due to pronunciation errors of Korean obstruents. In this case, any syllable final consonants do not have any specific roles concerned with this progress. Lastly, the syllable final alteration attempted to the consonants has low sonority. The altered syllable final consonants tend to maintain their inherent places of articulations.