Abstract
The purpose of this study is to compare the VOT duration of plosive sounds in Korean and Mandarin Chinese from the perspective of phonetic acoustics and to find out the closest way of pronunciation for Chinese to learn Korean pronunciation more effectively. Chinese has 5 kinds of tones: level, rising, falling-rising, falling and neutral tones. In this paper, neutral tone of velar, alveolar and bilabial consonants are recorded from five native Chinese speakers. Korean plosive consonants with different positions are recorded from five native Korean speakers. The data exhibit that the VOT of unaspirated consonant /g/, /d/, /b/ followed by a neutral tone in Chinese is close to Korean intervocalic stop ㄱ/g/, ㄷ/d/, ㅂ/b/ in the internal position. The aspirated sounds as /k/, /t/, /p/ followed by a neutral tone in Chinese are close to Korean lax soundsㄱ/k/, ㄷ/t/, ㅂ/p/ in initial position. The result of this study would be very useful for beginning Korean learners.
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