The Meaning of Korean Prosodic Boundary Tones

This book sets out to rationalize the meaning of Korean intonation, especially the boundary tones, illustrating a three-way relationship i.e., a specific meaning delivered by a certain type of boundary tone and a certain type of morphological marker in natural conversation data.

About the author

Mee-Jeong Park, Ph.D. (2003), UCLA, is Associate Professor of Korean at the department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She has published several textbooks and pedagogical researches on Korean language and linguistics.

Product details

• Authors: Mee-Jeong Park
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2012
• EAN: 9789004243576
• ISBN: 978-90-04-24357-6
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 218 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Series: Languages of Asia
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics