The Boundary Cues in Korean English Learners’ Speaking

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Kang, Seokhan & Ahn, Hyunkee. 2010. The Boundary Cues in Korean English Learners' Speaking. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal. 18(3). 57-69. Acoustic cues for segments are enhanced at the edges of the prosodic domains. The enhancements occur as the forms of longer duration, strengthening, alternation of the degree of overlap with adjacent segments, and glottalization. This study investigated different realizations of final boundary effect for Korean English learners and English native speakers. Finding was that the Korean English learners had longer duration of final syllables, higher F0, longer pause duration, and smaller pitch difference. On the contrary, the Native English speakers had shorter duration of final syllables, lower F0, shorter pause duration, and larger pitch difference between adjacent phrases. The result implies that boundary effect could be affected by the background language.

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