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This study examined a production experiment to test whether the sentence-initial position has a greater advantage in marking prosodic focus than later positions within a sentence do, and whether or not prosodic focus is affected by pitch declination in Korean. Among many different focus types, the present production experiment included discourse-new focus to test prosodic prominence, and broad focus was also used for control data. Discourse-new focus was elicited using a Q&A structure, and the stimuli with broad focus were produced in isolation simply as background reading. The two focus types were then placed equally in three different positions within a sentence (i.e. sentence-initial, sentence-medial, and sentence-final). Results revealed that prosodic focus was realized clearly with increased cues of duration, pitch, and intensity in every focus position in English and Korean. A noteworthy difference, however, was observed between the two languages. In Korean, a new prosodic phrase with pitch resetting was inserted before every focus. Therefore, unlike English, Korean’s prosodic focus was able to be independent of pitch declination and a falling pitch contour normally occurring at the end of a declarative sentence.

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I. Introduction
II. Method
1. Stimuli
2. Participants
3. Recording procedure
4. A sketch of pitch contours
5. Analyses
III. Results
1. On-focus comparisons between broad focus and discourse-new focus
2. Position-by-position pitch comparisons for discourse-new focus
IV. Discussion and Future directions
Works Cited
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저자

• Wu, Jing [ Cheongju University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810