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KMID : 1022420200120040027
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2020 Volume.12 No. 4 p.27 ~ p.36
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Perceptive evaluation of Korean native speakers on the polysemic sentence final ending produced by Chinese Korean learners
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Yune Young-Sook
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Abstract
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The aim of this study is to investigate the perceptive aspects of the polysemic sentence final ending “-(eu)lgeol” produced by Chinese Korean learners. “-(Eu)lgeol” has two different meanings, that is, a guess and a regret, and these different meanings are expressed by the different prosodic features of the last syllable of “-(eu)lgeol”. To examine how Korean native speakers perceive “-(eu)lgeol” sentences produced by Chinese Korean learners and the most saliant prosodic variable for the semantic discrimination of “-(eu)lgeol” at the perceptive level, we performed a perceptual experiment. The analysed material constituted four Korean sentences containing “-(eu)lgeol” in which two sentences expressed guesses and the other two expressed regret. Twenty-five Korean native speakers participated in the perceptual experiment. Participants were asked to mark whether “-(eu)lgeol” sentences they listened to were (1) definitely regrets, (2) probably regrets, (3) ambiguous, (4) probably guesses, or (5) definitely guesses based on the prosodic features of the last syllable of “-(eu)lgeol”. The analysed prosodic variables were sentence boundary tones, slopes of boundary tones, pitch difference between sentence-final and penultimate syllables, and pitch levels of boundary tones. The results show that all the analysed prosodic variables are significantly correlated with the semantic discrimination of “-(eu)lgeol” and among these prosodic variables, the most salient role in the semantic discrimination of “-(eu)lgeol” is pitch difference between sentence-final syllable and penultimate syllable.
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KEYWORD
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polysemic sentence final ending, perceptive analysis, sentence boundary tone, pitch difference, L2 intonation
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