Contrastive Study of the Relationships between Prosody and Syntax in Japanese and Korean

关于韩国学习者对日语音高口音的感知，结果表明，日语和韩语的基本知觉单位分别是Mora和音节。我们在句法歧义的韵律消解中看到，对于日语和韩语句法上平行的结构，日语使用音调，而韩语使用时长或停顿。但有趣的是，随着观察延伸到方言差异，我们有对音调敏感的东京日语和庆尚韩语，以及所谓的非音调仙台日语和首尔韩语。在理论方面，我们提出了韵律和句法信息综合处理的自主模块语法框架，作为两个独立的句法模块的相互约束，我们的研究活动集中在语篇和句法歧义方面，研究成果已经发表在期刊论文和国际会议论文集上。

As for the perception of pitch accent by Korean learners of Japanese, the result shows clear evidence that the basic perception unit is the mora and the syllable for Japanese and Korean, respectively. We have seen in the prosodic resolution of ambiguities in syntax that for syntactically parallel structures in Japanese and Korean, pitch is used in Japanese whereas duration or pause is used in Korean. But interestingly, as the observation extends to dialectal differences, we have the grouping of pitch sensitive Tokyo Japanese and Kyongsang Korean as against so-called non-pitch Sendai Japanese and Seoul Korean. On the theoretical side, we proposed the framework of autonomous modular grammar for integrated treatment of prosodic and syntactic information to be given as mutual constraints to the two independent syntax modules.Our research activities are centered on the focus in discourse and syntactic ambiguities, and the results have been published in journal papers and international proceedings papers.