Sang Yee Cheon

List of John Benjamins publications in which Sang Yee Cheon is involved.

Articles

Cheon, Sang Yee and Victoria B. Anderson 2008 Acoustic and Perceptual Similarities Between English and Korean Sibilants: Implications for Second Language Acquisition Korean Linguistics 14, pp. 41–64 | Article

Abstract. Foreign accent has been assumed to be closely related to the degree of articulatory, acoustic and perceptual similarity between L1 and L2 sounds. This study examined cross-language acoustic and perceptual similarities between Korean and English sibilant fricatives: Korean [—tense] /s/… read more

Cheon, Sang Yee 2006 Production of Korean Fricatives in Second Language Acquisition: Acoustic Characteristics Korean Linguistics 13, pp. 17–48 | Article

Abstract. This article examines the acoustic characteristics of Korean fricatives (lax /s/ and tense /s*/) in three vowel contexts (/a/, /i/, and /u/) in the speech of AE learners of Korean. AE learners fall into two groups based on their proficiency. Acoustically, Korean /s*/ is more similar to… read more