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KMID : 0917520010080020133
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Journal of Speech Sciences
2001 Volume.8 No. 2 p.133 ~ p.148
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Korean Speakers´ Realization of Focus and Information Structure on English Intonation in Comparison with English Native Speakers
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Focus and inforYriation structure are closely related with the distribution of pitch accents. A focused word conveys new information and bears a pitch accent. A content word can usually get a pitch accent, but it can be deaccented if it is mentioned earlier in the discourse. In this paper, we test how English native speakers and Korean learners of English realize pitch accents according to focus and information structure of a sentence. The production experiment shows that English native speakers give a pitch accent to narrow-focused items, deaccenting all the other items of the sentence, For VIA broad focus, native speakers give a pitch accent either to both the verb and its complement or to the complement only. On the other hand, it is found that Koreans give pitch accents to most content words regardless of focus and information structure. Moreover, the perception experiment confirms that Koreans´ intonation patterns, which are not appropriate in terms of focus and information structure, may jeopardize listeners´ comprehension. This paper shows that Korean speakers have little knowledge about focus and information structure for intonational realization, and that such notions should be applied to teaching of English intonation.
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