Comparison of Spontaneous Speech and Read Speech: Prosodic Analysis

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper investigates some prosodic characteristics in the comparison of spontaneous speech and read speech. It deals with various differences in two styles of speech with regard to pitch range, utterance duration, the whole intermediate phrase duration, pause, and the numbers of intermediate phrases,intonational phrases, pitch accents, monotones, bitones, boundary tones (L-L% and L-H%), and cases in which the pitch range of the first intermediate phrase is greater than that of the following intermediate phrase. The main finding of this study is that spontaneous speech is different from read speech in various prosodic aspects. The mean value of pitch ranges was larger in spontaneous speech than in read speech. Each mean value of utterance durations, the whole intermediate phrase durations, and pauses was also larger in spontaneous speech than in read speech. Each average number of intermediate phrases/intonational phrases, pitch accents, bitones, boundary tones (L-L%, L-H%), and cases in which the pitch range of the first intermediate phrase was greater than that of the following intermediate phrase was also larger in spontaneous speech than in read speech, except the average number of monotones. On the contrary, the mean value of monotones was smaller in spontaneous speech than in read speech.

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