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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462618603321

Autore

Park Mee-Jeong

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, Massachusetts : , : Global Oriental, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

90-04-24358-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

The languages of asia series ; ; volume 10

Disciplina

495.716

Soggetti

Korean language - Intonation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary material -- Introduction -- Theoretical Background -- Data and Methodology -- Monotonal Group: H% and L% -- Bitonal Group: HL% and LH% -- Multitonal Group -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References.

Sommario/riassunto

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.