The meaning of Korean prosodic boundary tones / Mee-Jeong Park.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Park, Mee-Jeong.

Series:

Languages of Asia 10.

The languages of Asia ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Korean language--Intonation.

Korean language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Biggleswade : Brill ; Turpin [distributor], 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book marks the first attempt to rationalise the meaning of Korean intonation, especially its boundary tones. Unlike other languages where various pragmatic and discourse meanings are delivered through the types of pitch accent (prominent pitch movement on stressed syllable) and the types of phrase-final boundary tones, Korean delivers the pragmatic/discourse meaning mainly by the types of phrase-final boundary tones. This is possible because Korean has at least nine boundary tones while other languages have two (or, even four or five if the boundary tone of a smaller phrase are included). Various examples are given that illustrate this three-way relationship, id est, a specific meaning delivered by a certain type of boundary tone and a certain type of morphological marker in natural conversation.

Contents:

Preliminary material

Introduction

Theoretical Background

Data and Methodology

Monotonal Group: H% and L%

Bitonal Group: HL% and LH%

Multitonal Group

Conclusion

Appendix

References.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004243583

9004243585

OCLC:

894170780

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004243583 DOI