Prosodic Characteristics of Yeah in Korean Speakers Collaborative English Dialogues

• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: Yongeun Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』영어학연구 제20권 3호, 1~18쪽, 전체 17쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2014.12.01

영문 초록

Lee, Yongeun. 2014. Prosodic Characteristics of Yeah in Korean Speakers'Collaborative English Dialogues. English Language and Linguistics 20.3, 1-18.Existing studies have shown that in dialogues involving native speakers of English,yeah serves multifunctional roles and thus, from its word information alone, isin principle ambiguous. In this regard, a substantial body of research efforts has investigated the role of prosody of yeah in potentially disambiguating its diverse conversational meanings. Little is known, however, about nonnative English speakers' use of yeah, in particular the prosodic characteristics of yeah as a function of their conversational meanings in nonnative-nonnative interactions. The primary goal of this study is thus to examine the prosodic aspects of yeah in spontaneous speech of Korean learners of English. To this end, data are drawn from collaborative English dialogues performed by multiple dyads of Korean learners of English, paired according to their general English proficiency. Three broad types of yeah were observed from the current participants' English dialogues and measurements of their mean F0, Max F0, mean duration and intensity indicate the potential role of Max F0. Other than this, conversational meanings of yeah seem not to be prosodically marked differently among each other in the current nonnatives'conversations, suggesting a potentially markedly different prosodic pattern of yeah in native vs. nonnative English dialogues

목차

1. Introduction

2. Review of Existing Literature on Functions and Prosody of Yeah

3. Methodology

4. Results and Analyses

5.Discussions and Conclusion

References

키워드

yeah prosody pitch intensity duration nonnative English speech