Lee, Sook-hyang. 2002. A Study of the Description System of Korean Prosodic Structure: K-ToBI Labelling System. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 10(2). 1-18. This paper Investigates what kinds of factors affect the realization of the tonal...
Lee, Sook-hyang. 2002. A Study of the Description System of Korean Prosodic Structure: K-ToBI Labelling System. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 10(2). 1-18. This paper Investigates what kinds of factors affect the realization of the tonal pattern of AP(Accentual Phrase) in the Seoul dialect of Korean. It also addresses important factors although it is not still clear what factors affect the whether o not all 14 different tonal patterns can be explained by them. The results demonstrated that duration of utterances, types of onset consonant of the first syllable of an AP, and speech rate are the most speakers' choice between La-type AP and Ha-type AP. This paper also examines the phonetic characteristics of an 'La' tone. Phrase final examined lengthening was not observed in an La-type AP as it w an He-type AP. The falling slope within an La-type AP was influenced by the duration of the AP: the longer it was, the shallower the slope. Furthermore, a rising slope at the beginning of the AP was steeper in an La-type AP then in an Ha-type AP.