Proceedings of the KSPS conference (대한음성학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2006.05a
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- Pages.71-74
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- 2006
The Perceptual effect of 'Prosodic vs. Semantic' Focus Representation in Phoneme Detecting
음소 지각에 대한 초점의 운율적 실현과 의미적 실현의 효과(I)
- Kim Hee-Sung (Behavioral Science Research Center, Korea Univ.) ;
- Jo Min-Ha (Department of Korean Language and Literature, Korea Univ.) ;
- Kim Kee-Ho (Department of English Language and Literature, Korea Univ.)
- Published : 2006.05.01
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to observe how Korean listeners detect a target phoneme with 'Focus' represented by prosodic prominence and question-induced semantic emphasis. According to the automated phoneme detection task using E-Prime, Korean listeners detected phoneme targets more rapidly when the target-bearing words were in prominence position and in question-induced position. However, when phoneme targets were in prominence position, response time was much faster than in question-induced position. The results suggest that the prosodic prominence which is explicit method of focus representation be more effective than question-inducing, implicit method of it, in phoneme detecting.
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