중국인 한국어 학습자의 중간언어에 나타나는 억양의 특성 연구

A Study on the Features of Interlanguage Prosody of Chinese Learners of Korean: Focused on Intonation of APs and Boundary Tones

This study examines the interlanguage prosody of Chinese leaners of Korean. The productions of 35 texts by intermediate and advanced Chinese learners of Korean (20 females in total) are compared to the same productions by 5 female Koreans. 875 sentences in total were analyzed. The study investigates 4 categories of prosodic system such as intonation of Accentual Phrases(APs) decided by the types of first syllable in AP and the types of boundary tones for the declarative, interrogative, suggesting, and imperative sentences, and the phenomena of prolongation in the boundary tones. The results of the study can be summarized as follows: First, only advanced learners seemed to have acquired the rules of AP intonation. Second, both learner groups did not show a meaningful difference from Koreans in terms of the macro-types of intonation in boundary tones. However, Rise-Fall that is quite frequently used by Koreans in declarative was not used by the either groups. Third, unlike Koreans, neither group showed the prolongation in boundary tones, and the length of boundary tones was relatively quite short.