Abstract
This study examines the correlation between intonation and meaning of the two types of verbal constructions with the connective ending -ko in Korean based on a perception experiment. The idiomatic -ko verb and the -ko conjunction (i.e., syntactically conjoined verb phrase) show differences not only in intonation but also in realization of pause. We identify that an idiomatic -ko verb, as a single compound word, does not allow a pause in it while a -ko conjunction forms two prosodic units allowing a pause between the two conjuncts. The general pattern of the two constructions is as follows: i) the idiomatic -ko verbs, without semantic compositionality, carry [HL], and ii) the -ko conjunctions exhibiting semantic compositionality show [H│H], which manifests two separate syntactic phrases (and thus two prosodic units).
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