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KMID : 0917520020090040215
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Journal of Speech Sciences
2002 Volume.9 No. 4 p.215 ~ p.234
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The Realization and Perception of English Contrastive Focus
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Abstract
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This study is designed for two purposes. Tfhe first one is to compare the realization and perception of English contrastive focus between Korean learners of English and native speakers of English. The second purpose is to study the phonological and phonetical features of contrastive focus by examining the results of production and perception experiments. English native speakers´ results show that the English contrastive accents are generally accompanied by higher peak heights. Tfhe findings agree with the results of Bartels & Kingston (1994). Unlike native speakers of English, Korear speakers seem to be poor at relating the phonetical features of contrastive focus to their actual speech. Korean speakers´ results are expecially unsuccessful when the contrast is not distinctly grasped through syntatic structure, or when the function words are contrasted. Furthermore, Korean speakers´ utterances tend to have pitch accents on evry content word, whether the word is contrasted or not.
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