Abstract
This study examines the production and perception of corrective focus in South Kyungsang Korean, using phone number strings. It shows that focus prosody varies greatly by tonal pattern (HHL, HLL, LHT, LHL) within phrases. Prosodic focus in High-initial phrases was clearly produced and accurately recognized, compared to that in Low-initial phrases. Additionally, the identification rate of HLL was higher than that of HHL, mainly because the focused initial H of the HHL contrasted with the second H within phrases, in terms of pitch. The results confirm that the encoding of prosodic focus is not uniform within a language; rather, focus prosody within a language can vary depending on the tonal pattern of an utterance.
Acknowledgement
We express our gratitude to Area Editor Jason Shaw and two anonymous reviewers for their invaluable feedback, comments, and suggestions on this work; all remaining errors are ours, of course. The production and perception data appeared in previous studies (Lee 2015, Lee 2017; Lee et al. 2015) but were used here with a different research approach.
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