제주방언의 억양구 경계성조 연구

Abstract

We examined the tone patterns according to sentences of the Jeju dialect by considering the boundary tones of the Intonational Phrase of the native Jeju speakers (aged between 70s and 80s). We also examined whether there is a significant difference between the patterns of Accentual Phrase and the Seoul dialect. Taking the regional balance into consideration, we classified regions into Jeju city, Seogwipo city, BukJeju county and NamJeju county. We have selected four areas from each region and conducted interviews with a total of 32 people (one man and one woman for each region). The intonational patterns in each sentence were analyzed by using the tone syllables utilized in the K-ToBI(Korean Tones and Break Indices) labelling system. As a result, the IP boundary tones in the Jeju dialect were L%, H%, LH%, HL%, LHL%, HLH%, HLHL%, LHLH%, LHLHL%, HLHLH%, showing resemblance to that of the Seoul dialect. In most of the intonational patterns, there have been a considerable difference from the Seoul dialect. The AP pattern mostly consists of LH, which starts in a low tone, increases slowly and attains a high tone in the last syllable. The AP, however, often goes down slowly.