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The Current State of Japanese pitch accent by Korean Learners : Focusing on the Influence of the Mother tongue

BeomSeok Lee 1

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ABSTRACT

Based upon the data of plural enunciations, this paper investigates the ways in which the Japanese pitch accent is practiced among Japanese learners of the Seoul area. The outcome of the study shows very low rates of Pitch practice due to very few examples of the same pronunciation as Japanese accent types in the Korean language. Also, when pronouncing the same word several times at different times, learners make up different pitch patterns. For example, the following Pitch patterns arise: 「●●、●●●、●●●●」「◒●、○◒●、◒◒◒○」「●●○、○○●、●●○▷、○○○▶、◒◒◒▶」「●●○○、◒●◒●、○○○○▶、○●●○▶」. These phenomena tell us that Korean learners of Japanese language have difficulties in pronouncing Japanese accent patterns that are realized by morae with high-low pitches. The phenomena are deemed to be a result of the influence of the learner’s mother tongue in which no fixed phonological high-low pitch is assigned to each word, while such a high-low pitch is produced arbitrarily. Also, the reason why the present study of the pitch patterns by learners from the Seoul area shows a different result from that of previous studies is thought to be caused by the arbitrary pitch patterns in enunciations of the learners’ mother tongue.

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