Acoustic Characteristics and Pitch Accent Realization in English Elliptical Sentences - VP-ellipsis, sluicing, gapping -

영어 생략구문의 음성적 특성과 피치악센트 실현 양상-동사구 생략, 슬루싱, 공소화를 중심으로-

Ellipsis is the figure of speech characterized by the deliberate omission of words that are obviously understood, but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically or semantically complete. The purpose of this study is to examine how ellipsis affects its adjacent elements acoustically and phonologically in English VP-ellipsis, sluicing and gapping. In the experiment, the realizations by English native speakers are set as the criteria for the observing point and are compared to Korean speakers' realizations. For the results, while English native speakers utilized various acoustic information such as word duration and pitch range and phonological information such as pith accent realization in order to intend the cues for decoding the missing constituent, Korean English learners relied on only duration information and could not use various information effectively.