The Meaning of Korean Prosodic Boundary Tones

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-24357-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 14 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Languages of Asia

This book marks the first attempt to rationalise the meaning of Korean intonation, especially its boundary tones. Unlike other languages where various pragmatic and discourse meanings are delivered through the types of pitch accent (prominent pitch movement on stressed syllable) and the types of phrase-final boundary tones, Korean delivers the pragmatic/discourse meaning mainly by the types of phrase-final boundary tones. This is possible because Korean has at least nine boundary tones while other languages have two (or, even four or five if the boundary tone of a smaller phrase are included). Various examples are given that illustrate this three-way relationship, i.e., a specific meaning delivered by a certain type of boundary tone and a certain type of morphological marker in natural conversation.

Zielgruppe

All interested in intonation and its meaning, the relationship between prosody and morphology within discourse settings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Park, Mee-Jeong

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Über Autor(innen)

Park, Mee-Jeong
Mee-Jeong Park, Ph.D. (2003), UCLA, is Assistant Professor of Korean at the department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She has published several textbooks and pedagogical researches on Korean language and linguistics.

Mee-Jeong Park, Ph.D. (2003), UCLA, is Associate Professor of Korean at the department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She has published several textbooks and pedagogical researches on Korean language and linguistics.