Japanese "End Focus" as Spoken by Native Seoul-dialect Speakers : With Focus on speech discourse

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  • ソウル方言話者の日本語発話における "end focus" : 自然談話を材料に
  • ソウル ホウゲン ワシャ ノ ニホンゴ ハツワ ニ オケル end focus シゼン ダンワ オ ザイリョウ ニ

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When Seoul-dialect speakers attempt to learn the Japanese language, " end focus " affects syntactic structure, information structure, and speech discourse. " End focus " is identified by pitch changes and segmental lengthening at the end of the Perceptual Sense Unit(PSU). Ten Seoul- dialect speakers were chosen for the research on speech discourse. The results showed that " end focus " is classified as, the grammatical form at the end of postposition in the speech discourse. Mostly " end focus " is identified as meaning of reason postposition I te(de) i meaning of adversative conjunction I keredomo i meaning of order postposition I te(de) meaning of reason postposition I node,kara i and meaning of theme postposition I wa i . Also, " end focus " has two discourse functions they are, one, a speech continuance marker, and two, an emphatic marker in the speech discourse.

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