To L1 and L2 speakers/ users of Korean,
Although I have been learning Korean for a while, I still struggle in recognizing parts of speech. Specifically, where speakers pause and stress. I know the phonological rules and have become accustom to a lot of grammar . However, I continually struggle to 'catch up' with what is said. To give you an example:
저는 매튜라고 합니다.
Is the sentence stressed equally throughout? Is there a pause between 저는 and 매튜?
In more complex sentences when there are conjunctions, i naturally pause when using 면, 고, 서 etc in English, is it the same in Korean?
저는 매튜이라고 27살입니다.
Is there an emphasis on the 고 to separate the sentences?
I ask because whenever I listen to Korean, I notice that there are pauses, stress and intonation variation. However, I am wondering if this is rule governed or personal. Basically, I want to know if there are cues in Korean that can indicate the type of information that is going to occur next through prosodic information (like stress, intonation, pauses etc.).
I haven't found much information on this online, so I thought I would ask here. Any answers are welcome from anyone :)
Thanks
