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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/JKCA.2020.20.11.378

Comparison of Word Level Stress Features between Korean, English and the Interlanguage of Korean Learners of English  

Lee, Yunhyun (대전반석고등학교)
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Abstract
English stress plays such a critical role in understanding spoken English words that its misplacement can lead to a breakdown of communication. Korean learners of English, whose native language is known to lack this feature, are expected to have some difficulty acquiring this English prosodic system. This study explored how Korean is different from English in manifesting prominence at the word level and how the interlanguage of Korean learners of English is dissimilar to both languages in that regard. Four polysyllabic English loanwords in Korean and their English source words were used as stimuli. Ten native English speakers read the English source words while ten Korean learners of English read the English loan words first and then the English source words. The analysis of 120 speech samples revealed that Korean words did not have any salient syllable realized by all stress features: duration, amplitude, and F0. On the contrary, English words had syllables with relative prominence, which was consistently manifested by all the features. Interestingly, in realizing English stress, the interlanguage of the Korean English learners bore more resemblance to that of English than that of their native language.
Keywords
English Stress; English Loanwords; Interlanguage; Stress Features; Crosslinguistic Comparison;
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