A Study on the Prosodic Characteristics of the Korean Broadcast News Utterances

한국어 정규 뉴스 방송 문장의 운율 특성 연구

  • In, Ji-Young (Department of Linguistics, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Seong, Cheol-Jae (Department of Linguistics, Chungnam National University)
  • Published : 2007.05.18

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the prosodic characteristics of Korean news utterances. In this paper, prosodic phrases were described in terms of the K-ToBI labeling system. In addition, the change of intonation contour that occurs throughout the sentences was discussed in terms of types of media and gender. According to analyzing the tendency of resets, 331 out of 729 resets were observed at the boundary of the intonation phrases. This means that resets are of the speaker's own volition regardless of prosodic units of intonation phrases. The declination of the intonation contour of radio news showed a gentler slope than that of TV news, because when the sentence is getting longer, the declination of the intonation contour becomes slower.

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