Notes from class meeting on Tuesday, August 8.

Native speakers of a language refer to structural
phrases, lexical-semantic information, and prosody 
to resolve syntactically ambiguous constructions 
in a language. In the second year paper, I want to 
focus on prosody and see how Korean L2 leanrers of 
English process ambiguous English sentences 
- to be specific, 1)how Korean l2 learners of English
are different from native English speakers in processing
ambiguous English sentence,2)is there any negative or 
positivetransfer from L1 prosody? 3) if not, what other 
prosodic cues are the L2 learners are using? 4)how is the 
prosodic process different at different stages of L2 development?

For these research purposes, one suggestion was made in today's
class to make two kinds of English stimuli.
One is a list of ambiguous sentences both in English and
Korean languages. The other list comprises of ambiguous 
sentences only in English. Here, Mary suggested not 
limiting the variety of ambiguous sentneces into a complex genitive
NPs Construction, which I initially wanted to look at, rather
expanding the stimuli into other kinds of ambiguous English sentences. 
I think this would be a good idea since other kinds of
ambiguous Enlgish sentences can be an alternative method if there isn't 
enough prosodic differences in processing the complex genitive NPs
and also good for generalizing results.

Till Thursday, I will make the first draft of the two lists of ambiguous 
sentences.On Friday before our wrap-up class, I will record ambiguous 
korean and English sentences with cooperating prosody.
These recordings will be used for me to learn how to see and analyze
the common and unique prosodic patterns of the ambiguous sentences 
of Korean and ENlgish, using praat.

References to read...

Laurie Maynell's unpublished paper on AETOBI

Hyekyung Hwang's "Prosodic resolution of a syntactic ambiguity in
Korean learners of English". Working Papers in Linguistics,
Univeristy of Hawaii at Manoa.