Prosodic Disambiguation in First and Second Language Production

English and Korean

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10256451
AutoresHyunah Baek (0000-0002-8451-5436, Stony Brook University, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume65
Fascículo3
Páginas598-624
Data de publicação2022-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLanguage and Speech (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0023-8309 • E-ISSN: 1756-6053
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00238309211042041
PMID34605716
OpenAlexW3201813572
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas39

This study investigates the use of prosodic cues for syntactic ambiguity resolution by first language (L1) and second language (L2) speakers. In a production experiment, sentences with relative clause attachment ambiguity were elicited in three language conditions: native English speakers’ L1 productions as well as Korean-English bilingual speakers’ L1 Korean and L2 English productions. The results show that English uses both boundary marking (pause) and relative word prominence (elevated pitch and intensity) for disambiguation, while Korean mainly relies on boundary marking (pre-boundary lengthening and pause). The bilingual speakers have learned to use the English phonological categories such as pitch accents for disambiguation, but their use of phonetic cues to realize these categories still differed from that of native English speakers. In addition, they did not show a significant use of boundary cues. These results are discussed in relation to the typological differences between the prosody of English and of Korean

Linguistics · Natural language processing · Production (economics · Computer Science · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech and dialogue systems