- 영어 화제와 초점의 억양 실현 양상
- Tonal Implementation of English Topic and Focus
- ㆍ 저자명
- 강선미,옥유롬,김기호,Kang. Sun-Mi,Ok. Eu-Rom,Kim. Kee-Ho
- ㆍ 간행물명
- 음성과학
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 2003년|10권 4호|pp.41-55 (15 pages)
- ㆍ 발행정보
- 한국음성과학회
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물| PDF텍스트
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- 기타
This paper investigates the tonal patterns of English information structure composed of topic and focus. It has been argued in previous theories that there is a significant relationship between English topic-focus structure and intonation. The English topic is marked with L+H* pitch accent and focus is marked with H* pitch accent. These theories, however, are oversimplified ones since they do not consider the contextual differences of topic and focus. To examine more concrete tonal patterns of English topic and focus, we classified topic into two subcategories of reminding topic and old-information topic. Focus was categorized into three: information focus, contrastive focus, and reference focus. The overall results show that native English speakers are inclined to use both the L+H* and H* pitch accent for the topic and focus of an utterance. We also observe a tendency to deaccentuate the topics given as old information and to mark the topics given as noun phrase with H* pitch accent. As for the intonation of focus, H* pitch accent is the most frequent type of accent, but L+H* also shows a high percentage of implementation especially in the context of correction or contrast.