The Realization of Functions and Morphological, Prosodic Features of Discourse Marker {jom}({좀})

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the morphological and prosodic features of discourse marker {jom} related the functions using spoken language corpus(speech corpus). To achieve this, we distinguished [tɕom] and [tɕ*om] and analyzed prosodic features of {jom} such as position in utterance, prosodic boundary, duration, pause, tonal patterns. As a result, functions of {jom} have the following four categories: Politeness, Focus, Delay, Utterance mitigation. In morphological features according to the functions, [tɕom] is high frequency for Politeness and [tɕ*om] for Delay, Utterance mitigation. Also prosodic features of {jom} is peculiar to each function. Consequently morphological and prosodic features are important distinction for establishing function of {jom}.