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A Phonetic Study on the Prosodic Realization of Korean English Utterances

  • 인문논총
  • 2010, 26(), pp.243-276
  • Publisher : Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities

Sunyoung Hong 1

1경남대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The current study investigates the phonetic manifestations of stress patterns of English and compares the behavior of Korean English learners with that of native speakers of English. It has been known that English is classified as a stress-timed language and Korean as a syllable-timed language. This fact leads to a prediction that Korean English learners would behave differently from native speakers of English in terms of the realization of prosodic properties. It was found in this study that for native speakers of English, pitch was the significant acoustic correlate of the stress patterns in English. In general, vowel duration and intensity were not found to be strongly correlated with the stress assignment throughout the target words. However, one important finding regarding vowel duration was that words with the final syllable stressed had a significantly long final vowel except the word accent which starts with the full vowel. Compared to the utterances of native speakers of English, Korean English learners did not utilize pitch actively and thus their pitch contour was quite flat and monotonous. Besides, they did not use intensity as a significant phonetic cue to indicate the stress assignment. The Korean English learners tended to produce the final vowels longer than the initial vowels regardless of the stress patterns, and did not make the final vowels as long as native speakers of English in words with the final syllable stressed.

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