Abstract
It is well known that there is a significant negative correlation between a consonant and the preceding or following vowel. However, it has seldom been specified what relationship lies between the subsegments (closure, frication, and aspiration) of an obstruent and the preceding or following vowel in Korean. This work investigates the relationship between the vowel and the subsegments of a Korean coronal obstruent in CV and VCV sequences. There was a significant negative correlation between the gap and vowel (r=−0.900) in utterance initial CV sequence but no significant correlation between frication and vowel. On the other hand, there was a significant negative correlation between the preceding vowel and closure (r=−0.510) in the VCV sequence but no significant correlation between the preceding vowel and other subsegments. There was a significant negative correlation between the following vowel and gap (r=−0.545) but no significant correlation between the following vowel and other subsegments. Generally, there was a significant correlation between the vowel and an immediately adjacent segment than between the vowel and remote segments. Correlation was stronger in the CV sequence than in the VCV sequence for the same pair of variables. Speech Communication Best Student Paper Award.
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