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http://dx.doi.org/10.13064/KSSS.2019.11.2.033

A realization of pauses in utterance across speech style, gender, and generation  

Yoo, Doyoung (Department of Korean Language and Literature, Korea University)
Shin, Jiyoung (Department of Korean Language and Literature, Korea University)
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences / v.11, no.2, 2019 , pp. 33-44 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper dealt with how realization of pauses in utterance is affected by speech style, gender, and generation. For this purpose, we analyzed the frequency and duration of pauses. Pauses were categorized into four types: pause with breath, pause with no breath, utterance medial pause, and utterance final pause. Forty-eight subjects living in Seoul were chosen from the Korean Standard Speech Database. All subjects engaged in reading and spontaneous speech, through which we could also compare the realization between the two speech styles. The results showed that utterance final pauses had longer durations than utterance medial pauses. It means that utterance final pause has a function that signals the end of an utterance to the audience. For difference between tasks, spontaneous speech had longer and more frequent pauses because of cognitive reasons. With regard to gender variables, women produced shorter and less frequent pauses. For male speakers, the duration of pauses with breath was significantly longer. Finally, for generation variable, older speakers produced more frequent pauses. In addition, the results showed several interaction effects. Male speakers produced longer pauses, but this gender effect was more prominent at the utterance final position.
Keywords
pause; socioloinguistics; sociophonetics; speech style; speech task; gender; generation;
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