Discussion Post 4

[Yuting Gao]

	Bilabial	Labiod- ental	Dental	Alveolar	Postalv-eolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	p       b     ph			t        d th			c      ch	k    g kh
Nasal	m			n
Trill
Tap or Flap
Fricative				s					h
Affricate
Glides (Approximant)							j
Liquid (Lateral Approximant)				l

 

Referece:

Cheng, L. (1991). Assessing Asian Language performance: Guidelines for evaluating limited-English proficient students (2^nd ed.). Oceanside, CA: Academic Communication Associates.

https://www.asha.org/uploadedFiles/practice/multicultural/KoreanPhonemicInventory.pdf

 

Comparing the Korean phonetic inventory to the English phonetic inventory, one sound that I have spotted for consonant is the Palatal Plosive “c” and “c^h” sound (ㅊ).  However, I don’t find this sound difficult because Mandarin Chinese has this phonetic element as “ch” in pinyin. A Korean vowel that I found hard to pronounce when I first began learning Korean is the “으” and “의” sound, which is absent in English and has a different place of articulation from most Chinese phones. Another difficulty that I have encountered during the process of practicing my Korean Pronunciation is finding the exact mid-point between the [p] and [b] sound for “ㅂ” [p^h], [t^h] [d] with [t] for “ㄷ”, and [k^h] [g] with [k] for “ㄱ”. During my research on facts on Korean Phonology, I also found out that “Fricatives and affricates do not appear in word-final position.” The word “flower”, which is “꽃”, and “ㅊ” should be a Fricative with the “ch” sound, but it is not pronounced as [k͈o̞č] but [k͈o̞t̚]. I was able to grasp on to most of these new phones on my own prior to taking SDL110 course, but I will definitely continue to work to my language partner to enhance my pronunciation.

[Global Studio]

Excellent post, Yuting!