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A Study on the Pitch Contour Variation in Reading Sentence Produced by Chinese Korean-Learners

중국인 학습자들의 한국어 낭독 문장 피치곡선의 변동 양상

  • 윤영숙 (경남대학교 교양기초교육부)
  • Received : 2013.03.30
  • Accepted : 2013.06.12
  • Published : 2013.06.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the variation of pitch contour observed in the reading of Korean sentences produced by Chinese Korean-learners. In the reading context, Korean sentence intonation can be described by considering accentual phrases' pitch pattern and intonational phrases' boundary tone. But when APs and IPs connect to each other to form sentences, another aspect of speech production must be considered, that is declination of pitch contour. So, in order to examine how Chinese speakers produce Korean sentence intonation, we have analysed the sentences' pitch contours produced by fourteen Chinese speakers differing in proficiency, and compared them to pitch contours produced by six Korean native speakers. The results show that Chinese speakers tend to decline the pitch contour in shorter sentences, but for longer sentences, the declination was not observed. Moreover, even though Chinese speakers produced sentences with declination, internal tonal modulation differs from native speakers.

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