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3. Korean Speakers Accuracy on Voiceless Labiodental Fricatives
Within Single Words
The following table shows the accuracy of Korean singer pronouncing voiceless labiodental fricatives withing single words This group is divided into 6
types of words based on the position of the sound.
Table 4.7: The Accuracy of f within Single Words
No Classifications
Total Accurate
Inaccurate Words
word groups
Appearance Num.
Num.
1 f in syllable initial
40 92
81 88
11 12
2 f in syllable initial
cluster 11
33 30
91 3
9 3
f in syllable final 10
29 17
59 12
41 4
f in syllable final cluster 2
2 1
50 1
50 5
f as ambisyllabic sound 1
1 1
100 6
f in double position 1
3 2
67 1
33
TOTAL 65
160 132
82.5 28
17.5
In table the accuracy of f within single words, the final number showed f in single word was produced accurately in more a half of total number. It had
high number which reached 82.5. While, the inaccuracy number only reach 17.5 or equal to 28 performances.
Starting from the f in the initial syllable, there were 92 performances. From the total number, 81 performances were produced accurately, whereas 11
performances were inaccurate. If the number was served in percentage, the accurate number reached 88, which was vepy good grade, and the inaccurate
number reached 12.
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54 Some example of f in the initial of the first syllable or in word initial,
such as famine
fæmin
, feel
fiːl
, fall
fɔːl
, and fop
fɔːʳ
. Sound within the two earlier appeared words were pronounced accurately as
femen
and
fɪl
. While, the next words, fall and fop, were produced both accurately
fɒl
and
fɒ
, and
fɒr
and
fɒ
, and inaccurately as
pɒl
and
pɒ
. Then, the second position is second syllable initial, such as godfopsaken
gɒdfəseɪkən
and unfopgettable
ʌnfəgetəbl
. The first word was produced accurately as
gʌdfɒsekən
, whereas the second one was inaccurately as
ɒmpogerəbə
. The next positions are both in the beginning of the first or second syllable within one word, fulfill
fʊlfɪl
which is pronounced as same as the standard pronunciation.
The next sub-type is f within consonant cluster in the initial of the syllable. From the total appearances, 33 performances, 30 were accurate and 3
were inaccurate. In percentage, the accurate number impressively reached 91, whereas the inaccurate number reached 9. Those numbers showed that Korean
speakers attained high grade, vepy good, in this type. Consonant cluster in the syllable initial has three position, in the first
syllable, second syllable, and third syllable. For giving the clear explanation, example will be given for each position. Starting from the initial word, there were
fpee
friː
and fpiend
frend
which were pronounced as
frɪ
and
pren
. Then, the second syllable, there was only one word, peflected
rɪflektɪd
which was produced inaccurately as
ripektə
. The third syllable brought dpagonfly
drægənflaɪ
and
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55 buttepfly
bʌtəflaɪ
with accurate f sound production,
drʌgofrʌ
and
bʌtəfraɪ
. Though the sound can be pronounced, the combination of consonant or consonant
cluster still find difficulty to be produced. For example, the word fpee will be
fɪ
or the word fpom will be
fɒm.
Then, the third one is f in syllable final. From total 29 performances, there were 17 performances or 59 were accurate and 12 or 41 were inaccurate.
Here, some example of this type, staff
stɑːf
was pronounced as
stʌf
, life
laɪf
as
laɪp
,
laɪ
and
laɪf
, aftep
ɑːftəʳ
as
æftər
, and enough
ɪnʌf
as
ɪnaʊ
,
ɪnʌ
, and
ɪnʌf
. In the next sub-type, f in syllable final cluster, there were 2 performance
that could be seen. The example of this sub-type were puffs
pʌfs
which was pronounced as
pərəf
and myself
maɪself
as
maɪsep
. We could see that f in the first could be pronounced accurately by omitting another sound within cluster,
whereas the next word omitted all the sound in cluster and replaced them with p. Besides, the next sub type, f which was sounded in the end of syllable but to be
geminated into the following syllable, or ambisyllabic sound was produced accurately. This sound moved into the next syllable as in the word diffepent
dɪfərənt
which was pronounced as
dɪfən
. The in the next sub-type, f in both initial and final position, the sound
could be produced accurately. This sub-type had f in initial and final of the first syllable, for example fifteenth
fɪftiːnθ
which was pronounced as
fɪf.ɪ
,
fɪftɪ
,
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56 and
fɪptɪ
. The sound f in this sub-type actually could be produced accurately, but there was still difficulty for f in the end syllable as showed by the third
phonetic transcription.
4. Korean Speakers Accuracy on Voiceless Labiodental Fricatives