TY - GEN
T1 - Processing advantages for focused words in Korean
AU - Kember, Heather
AU - Choi, Jiyoun
AU - Cutler, Anne
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - ![CDATA[In Korean, focus is expressed in accentual phrasing. To ascertain whether words focused in this manner enjoy a processing advantage analogous to that conferred by focus as expressed in, e.g., English and Dutch, we devised sentences with target words in one of four conditions: prosodic focus, syntactic focus, prosodic + syntactic focus, and no focus as a control. 32 native speakers of Korean listened to blocks of 10 sentences, then were presented visually with words and asked whether or not they had heard them. Overall, words with focus were recognised significantly faster and more accurately than unfocused words. In addition, words with syntactic focus or syntactic + prosodic focus were recognised faster than words with prosodic focus alone. As for other languages, Korean focus confers processing advantage on the words carrying it. While prosodic focus does provide an advantage, however, syntactic focus appears to provide the greater beneficial effect for recognition memory.]]
AB - ![CDATA[In Korean, focus is expressed in accentual phrasing. To ascertain whether words focused in this manner enjoy a processing advantage analogous to that conferred by focus as expressed in, e.g., English and Dutch, we devised sentences with target words in one of four conditions: prosodic focus, syntactic focus, prosodic + syntactic focus, and no focus as a control. 32 native speakers of Korean listened to blocks of 10 sentences, then were presented visually with words and asked whether or not they had heard them. Overall, words with focus were recognised significantly faster and more accurately than unfocused words. In addition, words with syntactic focus or syntactic + prosodic focus were recognised faster than words with prosodic focus alone. As for other languages, Korean focus confers processing advantage on the words carrying it. While prosodic focus does provide an advantage, however, syntactic focus appears to provide the greater beneficial effect for recognition memory.]]
KW - Korean language
KW - prosody
KW - speech perception
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:37505
UR - http://sites.bu.edu/speechprosody2016/
U2 - 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-144
DO - 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-144
M3 - Conference Paper
SP - 702
EP - 705
BT - Speech Prosody 2016, May 31 - June 3, 2016, Boston, MA, USA
PB - Boston University
T2 - Speech Prosody
Y2 - 31 May 2016
ER -