Processing advantages for focused words in Korean

Heather Kember, Jiyoun Choi, Anne Cutler

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Abstract

![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.]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpeech Prosody 2016, May 31 - June 3, 2016, Boston, MA, USA
PublisherBoston University
Pages702-705
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
EventSpeech Prosody -
Duration: 31 May 2016 → …

Publication series

Name
ISSN (Print)2333-2042

Conference

ConferenceSpeech Prosody
Period31/05/16 → …

Keywords

  • Korean language
  • prosody
  • speech perception

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