영어 접어, 부사전치사, 전치사 구문의 운율 특성

Abstract

This study attempts to investigate prosodic features in the English phrases including particles, (e.g., the second element in a verb phrase such as give up the exam), adverbial prepositions (e.g., the second element of jump off the wall) and prepositions (e.g., the second element of study in the room). A phonetic experiment was conducted to see if there are any differences and /or prosodic structures among those three phrases. The stimuli were varied with two different objects, noun and pronoun and two kinds of rate, slow and fast, and pitch accent distribution and phrasing were measured within the phrases. Results showed that pitch accents were very frequently realized on both the particles and the adverbial prepositions, but that prepositions were rarely implemented a pitch accent. When the objects were a pronoun, a pitch accent consistently moved to particles, adverbial prepositions, and prepositions. Moreover, there are more phrase involved in the boundaries of the particle + the following noun phrase and the preceding verb + preposition, and few boundaries involved in the boundaries in the preceding verb + adverbial preposition and the adverbial preposition + the following noun phrase. It was interpreted as stating that such patterns reflect the differences in semantic weight among the three elements and the degree of semantic cohesion with the preceding verbs and the following noun phrases, and that adverbial phrases show distinct prosodic features from both particles and prepositions. This suggests that adverbial prepositions should constitute their own category semantically and/or prosodically.