The current study analyzes the causes of errors committed by Vietnamese learners who pronounce Korean phonological phenomena, and categorizes their types. In addition, the causes of pronunciation errors are studied through the lens of linguistic inter...
The current study analyzes the causes of errors committed by Vietnamese learners who pronounce Korean phonological phenomena, and categorizes their types. In addition, the causes of pronunciation errors are studied through the lens of linguistic interference and interlanguage relationship. The objective of the current study is to understand the pattern in which Vietnamese learners acquire Korean by compiling the results of such analysis. The current study is differentiated from previous research which mostly involves experimentation with meaningful vocabulary, as its experimentation vocabulary includes meaningless words that cross morpheme boundaries, which is an attempt to complement that limited reliability of previous studies.
Chapter 2 compares phonological systems of Korean and Vietnamese to predict errors likely to be committed by Vietnamese learners of Korean. In the chapter, the author forecasts that the Vietnamese learners will commit errors in pronouncing the plain-tense-aspirated consonants, as well as diphthongs, in Korea. In addition, the prediction was for errors caused by directly pronouncing written Korean, as well as the final /ㄹ/ (/ɾ/~/l/) sound.
Chapter 3 provides information about the selection and inspection of experimentation vocabulary, as well as the experiment on thirty beginner, intermediate, and advanced Vietnamese learners of Korean.
Chapter 4 provides the results the preliminary survey and those of the experiment conducted using meaningless words developed by the author. The experiment was conducted to test the ten phonological phenomena (lenition, consonant group simplification, nasalization, nasal assimilation, progressive assimilation, regressive assimilation, aspiration, tensification, /ㅎ/(/h/)deletion, /ㄴ/(/n/) addition). The results indicate that the most frequent error committed by Vietnamese learners of Korean Phonological Phenomena Pronunciation Error is ‘lenition > followed by tensification > nasalization > nasal assimilation > regressive assimilation > progressive assimilation > consonant group simplification > /ㅎ/ (/h/) deletion > aspiration.’ Also, the experiment revealed that the causes of errors in pronouncing Korean phonology were complex, combining issues such as interference from the mother tongue, in-language interference, overgeneralization of the target language due to the complicated nature of phonological phenomena, and application of third rules.
Chapter 5 provides a comprehensive conclusion about the results of the above experiment.
the current study will be used to clarify issues regarding the pronunciation instruction for Vietnamese learners of Korean, in addition to establishing a foundation for educating pronunciations of Korean phonological phenomena.