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KMID : 0974619980160020259
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Bulletin of Dongnam Health University
1998 Volume.16 No. 2 p.259 ~ p.272
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Pausing and Structure Rules
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Abstract
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Pausing is governed by syntactic rules in a language. Even in the Korean language it affects sentential accents and intonation which can be explained as a suprasegmental feature in the level of phonological representation. Here I attempt to list ambiguous sentences that can be caused by different
pausing places in the level of phonological segments, and figure out which phrase structures decide the different position of sentential accents naturally stressing after a pause. I set up general rules for pausing which is basically marked by a lump of meaning semantically. By studyingthe syntactic structures of the example sentences, I drew a conclusion that pausing could ` be?Predicted according to its phrase structures. Pausing is triggered by the syntactic structures of a sentence and automatically distinguished by accents. Syntactically different underlying sentence produces ambiguous sentences. So if we could produce a semantically distinguished sentence simply by moving the locations of pausing in a sequence having the same arrangement of segments. pausing is a phonological feature presenting accents and at the same time a syntactic one. In this paper I listed the ambiguous sentences in the phonological presentation without pausing. In the chapter II, the sentences(la;b) produce an ambiguity because of the deletion of a subject case marker in the sentence (1,b). The sentence (4a,b) results an ambiguity by deleting the object case marker ´eke´ in the both sentences and (4,b) even deletes the indirect objective ´na´ itself. Those phrases listed in the (7) show how pauses imply variously different verbs which modify the -noun right after. The sentence (9) indicates that if an adnoun comes in front of the noun you would rather make a pause before a noun and then a predicate. But when a adverb modifies the predicate directly there appears only one pause between the adverb and the predicate. The deletion of a grammatic functional word often produces ambiguity in a sentence. Pausing is a phonological feature which is related to the suprasegmental level. At the same time pausing is the element which decides where a sentential accent has to be appeared in a sentence. A lump of meaning usually consists of a phrase. I approached the syntactic analysis to explain the difference of underlying structures of ambiguous sentences in the phonological level and set up syntactic rules for pausing in Korean language.
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