Year: 2010
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: It has been observed that a focused item in Korean is by and large realized with higher pitch, longer duration and greater intensity.But it is not fully clear how much focus affects the pre-focus and post-focus regions.The present study examines the full scale of focus effect in Korean in pre-focus, on-focus and post-focus words.Results show that focused words have significantly increased F 0 , duration and intensity, post-focus words have significantly reduced F 0 Index Terms: pre-focus, on-focus, post-focus, duration, F , duration and intensity, but pre-focus words lack systematic changes in any of these parameters.Thus Korean seems to resemble languages like English and Mandarin that exhibit post-focus compression (PFC), but differ from Taiwanese and Cantonese where PFC has been found to be absent.
Source: Speech prosody
Authors: Yong-cheol Lee, Yi Xu
Institutions: University of Pennsylvania, University College London
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1552992291