외국인 유학생의 한국어 종결 억양 지각 양상

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the perception of the Korean utterance final intonation of foreign graduate students. Intonation is closely related to meaning of utterance, and it especially indicates the grammatical meaning of syntactic moods at the utterance final. The grammatical functions realized through the intonation are limited to the declarative, the interrogative, the imperative, and the exclamatory of syntactic moods. In this study, 114 sound stimuli were used for three types of intonation in the perception test. The three intonation types are level intonation, rising-falling intonation and falling-rising intonation. The perception test tool is made of the sound stimuli and was conducted on 17 foreign graduate students. We compared the result of the foreign graduate students with the result of Korean speakers. In the case of the level intonation, the result of the foreign graduate students is similar to the Korean speakers. But in the case of the rising-falling intonation and falling-rising intonation, the perception of the foreign graduate students is significantly different from the Korean speakers.