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International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology, 2019, 1(1); doi: 10.25236/IJFS.2019.010106.

A Study on the Hierarchy of Difficulty Setting of the Consonant Allophones in Korean through Recording and Listening Test

Author(s)

Lina Leng1,*, Guangyong Shan2

Corresponding Author:
Lina Leng
Affiliation(s)

1 Northwest University of Political Science and Law, Xian 710063, China
2 Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai 264209, China
*Corresponding author e-mail:[email protected]

Abstract

During the process in which Chinese students learning Korean, they have difficulty in mastering the pronunciation of consonants and the variation in pronunciation according to  phonological rules. This paper is aimed to help the learners master and learn the pronunciation of Korean consonants well by focusing on the difficulty they meet in learning the consonants and setting the hierarchy of difficulty of Korean consonants through experiments like recording.

Keywords

Korean, consonant, allophones, recording experiment, five-Likert Scales, hierarchy of difficulty

Cite This Paper

Lina Leng, Guangyong Shan. A Study on the Hierarchy of Difficulty Setting of the Consonant Allophones in Korean through Recording and Listening Test. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2019), Vol. 1, Issue 1: 55-62. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2019.010106.

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