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Korean native speakers' perceptive aspects on Korean wh & yes-no questions produced by Chinese Korean learners

중국인학습자들의 한국어 의문사의문문과 부정사의문문에 대한 한국어원어민 화자의 지각양상

  • Received : 2014.10.31
  • Accepted : 2014.12.14
  • Published : 2014.12.31
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Abstract

Korean wh-questions and yes-no questions have morphologically the same structure. In speech, however, two types of questions are distinguished by prosodic difference. In this study, we examined if Korean native speakers can distinguish wh-question and yes-no questions produced by Chinese Korean leaners based on the prosodic information contained in the sentences. For this purpose, we performed perception analysis, and 15 Korean native speakers participated in the perception test. The results show that two types of interrogative sentences produced by Chinese Korean leaners were not distinguished by constant pitch contours. These results reveal that Chinese Korean leaners cannot match prosodic meaning and prosodic form. The most saliant prosodic feature used perceptually by native speakers to discriminate two types of interrogative sentences is pitch difference between the F0 pick of wh-word and boundary tone.

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