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The Prosody of the Alleged Korean Topic Marker -nun
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- Authors
- Issue Date
- 2011
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 언어교육원
- Citation
- 어학연구, Vol.47 No.1, pp. 71-99
- Keywords
- Korean particle -nun ; contrastive topic ; prosodic experiment ; syntactic position of a topic
- Abstract
- In this paper, I experimentally examine the prosodic properties of items with the particle -nun, which are so-called topic expressions in Korean. I conducted a series of three judgment and production experiments. Through these experiments, I determined whether the following two widely accep-ted assumptions can be held at the same time: (i) the assumption that treats any -nun marked constituents as a sub-category of the topic comprising a component of information structure; and (ii) the assumption that, in Korean, the existence of -nun combined with a prosodic accent is sufficient to make a felicitous utterance in any type of contrastive topic-inducing context. In the course of experimentation I investigated the realization of -nun both in its prosodic form and in its linear placement within a sentence. The results suggest that -nun should be separated from the sole function of marking an information structure component Topic.The conclusion of these experiments urges us to reconsider the well-studied particle -nun.
- ISSN
- 0254-4474
- Language
- English
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