Perspectives on the Korean laryngeal contrast from cross- linguistic perceptual similarity

The three-way laryngeal contrast in Korean among lenis, fortis, and aspirated plosives has been well-described in previous linguistic studies. The results of this research have shown that the three laryngeal series are differentiated from each other along a number of articulatory, aerodynamic, and acoustic dimensions wordand phrase-initially: linguopalatal contact (Cho and Keating 2001), glottal configuration (C.-W. Kim 1970, Kagaya 1974), subglottal and intraoral pressure (Dart 1987), laryngeal and supralaryngeal articulatory tension (C.-W. Kim 1965, Hardcastle 1973, Hirose et al. 1974, Dart 1987), voice onset time (Lisker and Abramson 1964, Han and Weitzman 1970, Hardcastle 1973, Hirose et al. 1974, J.-I. Han 1996, Cho et al. 2002, Choi 2002, M. Kim 2004), fundamental frequency of vowel onset (J.-I. Han 1996, Choi 2002, M. Kim 2004), intensity of vowel onset (Han and Weitzman 1970), and voice quality of vowel onset (N. Han 1998, Cho et al. 2002, Kim and Duanmu 2004). 1