통사 구조와 운율 구조의 상관성 연구 - 중의성 해소 양상을 중심으로 -

Abstract

A Study on the Interface between Syntactic and Prosodic Structure with special reference to the modes of ambiguity resolution Jae-il Kwon, Youn-Han Kim, Yang-Soo Moon, Seungho Nam, Jongho Jun This paper aims to characterize the interface between syntactic structure and prosodic structure, with special reference to the modes of ambiguity resolution in Korean. Specifically, the paper deals with data involving structural ambiguity, some of which can be naturally described as syntactic ambiguity, but others which we claim should be properly accounted for in terms of discourse-pragmatic ambiguity. Different types of scope ambiguities are illustrated and special attention is paid to negated sentences with quantificational expressions and those in conjoined sentences. This paper identifies prosodic patterns which resolve scope ambiguity in negated sentences in Korean and further characterizes the prosodic pattern as a reflect of structure of the sentences. This account is supported by the discourse constraint on one of the two scope interpretation of negation in Korean: That is, negation can get wide scope over other quantificational expressions in the sentence just in case the negation can be interpreted as `metalinguistic negation` (Horn 1990). This paper observes the same interpretation pattern in conjoined sentences with negation in the second clause. Finally, the matalinguistic negation is identified as a focus of the sentence due to the pragmatic definition of proposed here. This paper not only accounts for the ambiguity of negation in Korean, but provides a pragmatic principle of interpreting metalinguistic negation. Furthermore the paper shows that the prosodic structure of a sentence is determined by a pragmatic information structure with focus as well. its syntactic structure. Recent proposals by Reinhart (1995) also supports the view that some of the scope phenomena in natural language must be properly accounted for in terms of interface strategies among syntax, semantics, phonology and pragmatics.