14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-14)San Francisco, CA, USA |
This study aims to describe a prosodic pattern on the Korean
subjective particles with respect to their discourse function. 4
kinds of Korean subjective particles were mainly investigated
with reference to sentential location, grammatical relations which
can precede or follow the word including subjective particles,
and prosodic phrasing.
F0 and energy were gradually diminished as the particles
moved down to the sentential final position. Ga particle, which
has been potentially regarded as having sort of grammatical
focusing function, solely seems to show relatively higher F0 in
sentential medial in discourse. At sentential medial position,
when words including ga, eun, and neun particles were
preceded by adverbials, the acoustic variables of particles tend to
be diminished by some ratio in comparison with the mean value.
The duration of particles can vary with respect to style
variation and especially that it tends to diminish from 150 basic,
50 separate, and finally 50 discourse successively. And there's
some specific phenomenon that prosodic phrasing itself was
relatively easily taken place after eun and neun particles.
Finally, we tried to catch the prosodic characteristics of
interword position in which a specific subjective particle was
intervened can be captured by duration and Fo fluctuation
governing successive 3 syllables within which boundary can be
located.
Bibliographic reference. Seong, Cheol-Jae / Song, Yoonkyoung / Kim, Yoon-Shin / Kim, Meeyoung (1999): "A prosodic analysis on the Korean subjective particles with respect to the discourse function", In ICPhS-14, 1495-1498.