남북한 방송 언어의 운율 특성 비교연구-억양을 중심으로-

Abstract

This paper is to compare North and South Korean media languages acoustically and to describe its main prosodic characteristics. The result of the acoustic experiments shows that North and South Korean media languages share the same prosodic features. That is, in general report style, they both show i) the same basic accentual phrase (AP) pattern ((LH) LH) like Seoul dialects and ii) the same closing boundary tone, or L %. However, acoustically, they differ in the following aspects: in comparison with South Korean media language, the North Korean one tends to show i ) more APs, ii) wider pitch variation between the first and the second syllable of the AP, üi) wider maximum pitch variation between the adjacent syllables, iv) a more radical falling slope in that closing boundary tone, and, of more importance, it does not show clearly the downdrift phenomena v) between the intonational phrases as well as 띠) between the APs, which are the prosodic characteristics of South Korean dialects. On the other hand, in Kim Il-sung-related reports, the North Korean media language shows somewhat different prosodic features, Ì.e. in addition to the basic (LH)LH AP pattern, it shows another AP pattern, or LHLo, simi1ar to the Honam dialect (LHL) and it also shows a rather different closing boundary tone, or LHL%.