2022.05.14 10:49
Kang, Sun-mi and Eun
Jong Kong. 2022. The realization of the Korean intermediate phrase in
spontaneous speech. Studies in
Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 28.1.
3-31.
The
revised K-ToBI (Korean Tone & Break Index, Jun, 2005; 2011) introduced two
types of intermediate phrase (ip) in the hierarchy of Korean intonation: (1)
prominence-marking ip, cued by a pitch range reset (Ha-ip) and (2) syntactic
boundary marking ip, indicated by a final high tone without lengthening (H-).
Aiming to discuss the validity of ip and ip-related notations, this study
examined ip realizations in Korean spontaneous speech by annotating three
female speakers’ samples from Seoul Corpus based on the revised K-ToBI
conventions. The spontaneous corpus was useful in showing that the two proposed
ip types were identified distinctively from Accentual Phrase (AP) and
Intonation Phrase (IP) by pitch resets and syntactic information. Still, the
spontaneous speech data exhibited diverse patterns of ambiguous ips, proposing
issues of unstable acoustic cues to ip (e.g., effects of segments and
dephrasing on pitch reset identification, and phonetic variations of ip
boundary tone) and of arguable use of ip-label ‘Ha-ip’. This paper discusses
the issues with spontaneous speech examples. (Korea
University/Chung-Ang University, Lecturer; Korea
Aerospace University, Professor)
Keywords: intermediate phrase, pitch reset, prosodic phrase, K-ToBI, intonation
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