A Prosodic Analysis of Three Types of Wh-Phrases in Korean
A Prosodic Analysis of Three Types of Wh-Phrases in Korean
复制标题
韩语三种Wh短语的韵律分析
作者：
Sun;Mira Oh
韩语中的 wh 短语由于“wh”词的词汇歧义而具有歧义：wh 问题中的 wh 代词，或是/否问题中的不定代词。此外，由于韩语中的 wh 词是原位的（即不像英语那样移到句子的前面），因此 wh 问题在表面形式上与回声问题没有区别。在本文中，我们研究了消除这三种类型的 wh 短语歧义的韵律特征：1）wh 问题，2）是/否问题，3）怀疑问题，一种给出怀疑含义的回声问题。检查生产和感知数据，以发现哪些韵律特征用于区分这三种类型的 wh 短语，以及哪种特征在感知此类差异时更显着和更可靠。生成结果表明，是/否问题和其他类型的问题通过不同的重音措辞来区分，而怀疑和wh问题通过不同的峰值幅度、音调范围和边界音来区分。有趣的是，并非所有发言者都使用相同的策略来区分怀疑和 wh 问题。感知测试的结果表明，重音短语与三种类型的感知显着相关，而幅度和边界音分别与“wh”和怀疑问题的感知显着相关。
Wh-phrases in Korean are ambiguous due to the lexical ambiguity of “wh” words: wh-pronouns as in a wh-question, or indefinite pronouns as in a yes/no-question. Furthermore, since a wh-word in Korean is in-situ (i.e. not moved to the front of a sentence as in English), wh-questions are not distinguished from echo questions in their surface forms. In this paper, we investigated prosodic characteristics disambiguating these three types of wh-phrases: 1) wh-question, 2) yes/no-question, and 3) incredulity question, a kind of echo question giving an incredulity meaning. Production and perception data were examined to discover what prosodic features are used to distinguish these three types of wh-phrases and which feature is more salient and reliable in perceiving such differences. The production results show that yes/no-questions and other types of questions are distinguished by different accentual phrasing, while incredulity and wh-questions are distinguished by different peak amplitudes, pitch ranges, and boundary tones. Interestingly, not all speakers used the same strategy to distinguish incredulity from wh-questions. The results of the perception test suggest that accentual phrasing is significantly related to the perception of three types while amplitude and boundary tones are significantly related to the perception of wh-and incredulity questions, respectively.