Speech Sciences (음성과학)
- Volume 4 Issue 1
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- Pages.113-133
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- 1998
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- 1226-5276(pISSN)
A Prosodic Labeling System of Intonation Patterns and Prosodic Structures in Korean
- Cho, Yong-Hyung (Department of International Tourism, Dong-Pusan College)
- Published : 1998.11.01
Abstract
The system proposed in this paper prosodically transcribes the intonation patterns, prosodic structures, phrasings, and other prosodic aspects of Korean utterances, on four parallel tiers: a tone tier, an orthographic tier, a break index tier, and a miscellaneous tier. The tone tier employs two phrase accents (L* and H *), three accentual phrase boundary tones (L-, H-, LH-), and four intonational phrase boundary tones (L%,H%,LH%,LHL%) in order to provide a phonological transcription of pitch events associated with accented syllables and phrase boundaries. The break index tier uses five break indices, numbered from 0 to 4, which mark a prosodic grouping of words and its prosodic structure in an utterance. Among the five indices, the break index 3 and the break index 4 align with an accentual phrase boundary tone and an intonational phrase boundary tone, respectively, in the tone tier.