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This 4 page paper takes the phonological view to explain why it’s difficult to distinguish between Korean alphabets; between human and animal sounds; and the difference between vowel and consonant sounds. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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animal sounds; and the difference between vowel and consonant sounds. Discussion Korean: There appear to be two Korean alphabets, Hanmun and Hangul; ordinary Koreans believed that Hanmun characters should be
used at school and in society while Hangul, the "Korean phonetic script," should not replace Hanmun (Hladczuk and Eller, 1992, p. 333). Despite the fact that people seem to favor
Hanmun, its impossible to memorize, since it has more than 80,000 characters; in addition, the forms of the characters symbolize their meanings (Hladczuk and Eller, 1992). Finally, the characters have
their own pronunciation, which is "totally different from the Korean spoken language" (Hladczuk and Eller, 1992, p. 333). A Korean had to learn the forms and meanings of the Hanmun
characters (which are Chinese) before he could use them and make himself understood; however, he could not substitute Hanmun characters for his own language because Korean has its "own unique
characteristics" (Hladczuk and Eller, 1992, p. 333). In short, Koreans are faced with two distinct languages with thousands of characters each, plus the forms of the characters symbolize what they
mean (Hladczuk and Eller, 1992). This situation is confusing at best and illustrates why its hard to distinguish among Korean alphabets. When it comes to the phonological approach to the
differences between human and animal sounds, we find that at some level, we respond in the same was as other animals. For example, if we hear the sounds that mean
the word "bird," we immediately begin building a picture in our mind of a bird (Devin, 1998). Our mental image of "bird" may be of a bird perching on a
branch or a bird in flight or some other configuration; chances are that if we continue to think of "bird," we will remember other characteristics that will then be added
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