In the word-prosodic typology of the dialects of Japanese, the dialects are classified into four types: (i) those having lexical pitch accent only (e.g. Tokyo Japanese), (ii) those having word melody only (e.g. Kagoshima Japanese), (iii) those having both of the lexical pitch accent and the word melody (e.g. Osaka Japanese), and (iv) those having no lexical pitch (e.g. Kumamoto Japanese). The previous studies have revealed that this word-level typology is correlated with sentence-level prosodic typology, particularly in terms of phrasal tones and prosodic phrasing.
The types (i), (ii), and (iv) are found in the dialects of Korean as well. Interestingly, another type of dialect is found in Korean, which seems to have both of the lexical pitch accent and the word melody in a different way from the type (iii). This type includes Daegu and Masan/Changwon Korean.
In this talk, I will especially focus on the interplay of word-level and sentence-level phenomena in Masan/Changwon Korean and its implications for typological and theoretical studies of prosody.