Open AccessThe syntax-prosody interface in Korean: Resolving ambiguity in questions
Author(s) -
Stephen F. Jones
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2016.17
Subject(s) - prosody , ambiguity , focus (optics) , linguistics , syntax , phenomenon , phrase , expression (computer science) , intonation (linguistics) , computer science , natural language processing , psychology , physics , philosophy , epistemology , programming language , optics
The paperconsiders a phenomenon in Korean where ambiguity in the writtenlanguage is resolved prosodically. An LFG analysis is provided whichextends the proposals of Mycock and Lowe (2013) to Korean, based onexperimental evidence on the prosodic expression of focus in Koreanwhich challenges the phrase-boundary based account of Jun and Oh(1996), and suggests that considering expanded pitch range may give amore robust account of focus expression.