한국어 화자의 영어 억양의 인지에 관한 연구: 담화 내의 초점을 중심으로

The present study seeks to investigate focus perception of korean speakers. 38 Korean speakers participated in the experiment and they were asked to identify a focused word after listening to 64 utterances of English speakers. Experimental results reveal that the majority of Korean speakers cannot pinpoint the location of the focus in English utterances. English words with a pitch peak tend to be perceived as focused words by Korean speakers. This is similar to the focus perception pattern in Korean. This result suggests that Korean speakers are affected by the intonation patterns of their L1. The findings of the present study are important both empirically and theoretically. Empirically, they provide the basic perceptual data on intonation patterns of Korean speakers. Theoretically, they present systematic data on how the L1 (Korean) intonation system affects L2 (English) intonation patterns.