Kwon, Soon Jeong

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Linguistic PortfoliosVolume 1 Article 132012Phonetic Portfolio (Kwon)Soon Jeong KwonSt. Cloud State UniversityFollow this and additional works at: https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/stcloud_lingPart of the Applied Linguistics CommonsThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by theRepository at St. Cloud State. It has been accepted for inclusion in Linguistic Portfolios byan authorized editor of theRepository at St. Cloud State. For more information, please contact rswexelbaum@stcloudstate.edu.Recommended CitationKwon, Soon Jeong (2012) "Phonetic Portfolio (Kwon)," Linguistic Portfolios: Vol. 1 , Article 13.Available at: https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/stcloud_ling/vol1/iss1/13PHONETIC PORTFOLIO SOON JEONG KWON  Biography  My name is Soon Jeong Kwon. I am from South Korea. I am twenty two years old woman. My first language is Korean. I’ve been using Korean for more than twenty years. I have been living in Minnesota, United States more than one and a half years. I have never been exposed to any other languages rather than Korean and English. I learned English in the classes when I was in Korea, but never had a chance to talk in English. 1.0 Introduction My phonetic portfolio contains three important aspects of phonetic projects that I did for my introduction to phonetic/phonology course, English 473. First, I write a short story that I transcribed phonetically according to the IPA standards. The transcription method that I used method can be described as an allophonic method because it represents the various ways I pronounce the same basic phoneme and the basic morpheme depending on the environments in which it occurs. The second part of my portfolio compares and contrasts my own vowels with those of General American English (GAE). The data from GAE is taken from Peterson and Barney 1952. For the third and final part of my analysis, I produced the sentence “….” And measured the acoustic correlates of stress to see what acoustic strategies I employ when I pronounce the two/or three words. 2.0 Vowel Project 2.1 Overview Vowel project is to know and compare my pronunciation and GAE vowel. Given 11 vowels are recorded and their F1 and F2 are measured.  Each word is recorded three times. Here is a spectrogram example of the one of the vowels [i]. Heed [i]  1Kwon: Phonetic Portfolio (Kwon)Published by theRepository at St. Cloud State, 2012A. Mean numbers: speaker vowel F1 F2 Soon heed 327 2265 US heed 310 2790 Soon hid 438 1401 US hid 430 2480 Soon hayed 481 1957 US hayed 536 2530 Soon head 575 1926 US head 610 2330 Soon had 717 1589 US had 860 2050 Soon hawed 660 1337 US hawed 590 920 Soon hoed 436 1078 US hoed 555 1035 Soon hod 753 1390 US hod 850 1220 Soon hood 400 1538 US hood 470 1160 Soon who'd 373 1286 US who'd 370 950 Soon hud 485 1554 US hud 760 1400  B. Vowel Bar graph  01002003004005006007008009001000heed hid hayed head hadSoonUSF1 front vowel 2Linguistic Portfolios, Vol. 1 [2012], Art. 13https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/stcloud_ling/vol1/iss1/13    050010001500200025003000heed hid hayed head hadSoonUSF2 front vowel 0100200300400500600700800900hawed hoed hod hood who'd hudSoonUSF1 back vowel 020040060080010001200140016001800hawed hoed hod hood who'd hudSoonUSF2 back vowel 3Kwon: Phonetic Portfolio (Kwon)Published by theRepository at St. Cloud State, 2012 C. Normalization Circled vowels are my vowels. Others are GAE. 4Linguistic Portfolios, Vol. 1 [2012], Art. 13https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/stcloud_ling/vol1/iss1/133.0 Homograph Project My expectation from the vowel project is to compare my pronunciation and GAE standard. I was hoping to see the similarities, but my vowels turned out to be a lot different from GAE. I noticed that not all Americans’ pronunciation is exactly merged to GAE vowels. I tried to be natural to pronounce all the words. The biggest difference is among my vowels is [ɪ] in hid. If I look at the vowel [ɪ] in the vowel quadrant, mine is hard to say it is front vowel. It is located at the back. Another one is [ʊ] in hud. GAE vowel [ʊ] indicates that it is low vowel, but my [ʊ] is as high as [u] in hood.  4.0 Conclusion Through this project, I’ve learned different pronunciations because of dialect, and foreign language influence. My F1 is normally similar, but located at a little back, and my F2 is a lot different than GAE vowel. I was surprised that foreign accent is vividly described on spectrograph. My pronunciation is so called Americanized, and sometimes some Americans say that I don’t have a foreign accent. Through Pratt, I could notice the difference between my pronunciation and GAE. Another thing is that, Spectrograph also shows the regional differences. I can’t notice the pronunciation difference between Americans from throughout America. But through spectrograph, people showed differences. Sometimes people have exactly same vowel pronunciation with GAE, but most of the time, vowel pronunciation of many native Americans are centralized like me.  5Kwon: Phonetic Portfolio (Kwon)Published by theRepository at St. Cloud State, 2012 6Linguistic Portfolios, Vol. 1 [2012], Art. 13https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/stcloud_ling/vol1/iss1/13

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