월(粤)방언권 중국인 학습자의 한국어 억양 습득 연구 - 확인 의문문 중심으로 -

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to reveal the intonations of Cantonese, when speakers are using the confirmative interrogative sentences in Korean. Although there have been many previous studies on this topic. but they have overlooked an important issue. That is, they ignored the Chinese dialects’ tones and focused only on the Mandarin tones’ influences when researching the Chinese’s intonation of Korean’s confirmative interrogative sentences. However there are actually many dialects in China, and all of them have tones. In addition, I would like to prove that the tones of the Chinese dialects will also affect the Chinese students’ intonation of Korean’s confirmative interrogative sentences. To illustrate this problem, I chose ‘-지요’ and ‘吧’ as interrogative sentences with which to write Korean and Chinese experimental materials, based on the previous studies and materials. I then interviewed and tested 100 respondents(Korean: 20, Mandarin: 40, Cantonese: 40). In actual conditions, intonation will not only be affected by the Mandarin tone characteristics, but also by the Chinese dialects’ tones and intonations. First of all, the light tone rule is easy to use in Mandarin but not in Cantonese. It is the reason why 30% of the Mandarin speakers used ‘HL%’ to achieve the ‘-지요’ interrogative but only 2.5% of the Cantonese did. Second, 27.5% of the Mandarin used ‘H%’ to achieve the ‘-지요’ interrogative but not Cantonese. Third, there are nine tones and five intonations in Cantonese, so more Cantonese used ‘LHL%’ to achieve the ‘-지요’ interrogative than Mandarin.