This paper explores prosodic marking of narrow (corrective) focus in Seoul Korean. Korean lacks lexical stress and it has a phonologized association between the Accentual Phrase (AP) initial segment and intonation. In the experiment, 4 speakers read sentences including a two-item list which were designed to elicit either an L or H AP-initial tone. The durational variations, the pitch events at prosodic boundaries, and F 0 span in 32 sentences read neutrally and 64 sentences read with one of the items under focus were analyzed. The results show that the focused constituent consistently initiates a new prosodic phrase. In comparison to the neutrally spoken or defocused counterpart, the focused constituent was more likely to be realized as an Intonational Phrase (IP) in some contexts. Bitonal IP boundary tones were more likely to occur under focus than monotonal tones. In addition, in focused constituents, durational expansion particularly at the phrase-edges, expansion in F 0 span, and raising of the phrase-initial pitch were observed. On the other hand, defocused constituents were not phonetically reduced compared to the neutral counterparts. The results imply that the phonetic cues spreading over the focused constituent complement the exaggerated prosodic boundaries.

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首尔韩语窄焦点韵律标记

本文探讨了首尔韩语中窄（矫正）焦点的韵律标记。韩语缺乏词汇重音，并且在重音短语 (AP) 初始段和语调之间具有语音关联。在实验中，4 位说话者朗读了包含两个项目列表的句子，该列表旨在引出 L 或 H AP 初始音调。分析了持续变化、韵律边界处的音高事件和 32 个中性阅读的句子和 64 个句子中的 F 0 跨度，其中一个重点项目被阅读。结果表明，重点成分始终如一地启动一个新的韵律短语。与中性口语或散焦对应物相比，在某些情况下，重点成分更有可能被实现为语调短语 (IP)。双调 IP 边界色调比单调色调更容易出现在焦点下。此外，在重点成分中，观察到持续扩展，特别是在乐句边缘，F 0 跨度的扩展和乐句初始音高的升高。另一方面，与中性对应物相比，散焦的成分在语音上没有减少。结果表明，在聚焦成分上传播的语音提示补充了夸大的韵律边界。