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KMID : 1022420140060020153
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2014 Volume.6 No. 2 p.153 ~ p.161
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Prosody and comprehension of ambiguous dative NPs in Korean
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Kang So-Young
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Abstract
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The current study reports the results from a cross-modal naming experiment investigating the effects of a prosodicboundary location on the comprehension of ambiguous dative NPs in Korean (Yeongmi-ka Ceonghi-eykey norae-rulpwulecwu-n pwuin-ul …). The underlined dative NP, Ceonghi-eykey, can temporarily be attached to the embedded rel-markedverb, pwulecwu-n (‘sing-rel’) or to the matrix verb to appear later. Participants heard sentence fragments manipulated for thelocation of Intonation Phrase boundary (the biggest prosodic boundary in the model of Seoul Korean) and right after that,had to name visually presented naming targets, which resolve the ambiguity of dative NPs. The prosodic manipulation did notresult in difference in naming time, suggesting that the location of a prosodic boundary failed to influence the way Koreanlisteners interpreted ambiguous dative NPs. Possible reasons for the null effect were discussed.
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KEYWORD
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syntactic ambiguity, Korean dative NPs, prosodic boundary, a cross-modal naming task
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