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This paper aims to examine the characteristics of pitch and duration in the speech of Chinese speakers, who have Mandarin as their mother tongue, when speaking Korean, a non-tonal language. Especially, the paper focuses on prosodic features such as stress pattern and duration differences of loan words. The pitch pattern of Korean loan words has a different pattern from accentual phrase. The syllable length and pitch of loan words pronounced by Korean mainly depend on the number and structure of syllables, and the presence of an initial consonant can be a cause, however it is not absolute either. The syllable length and pitch of Korean loan words pronounced by Mandarin speakers are affected by the syllable structure, the types of consonants and vowels, and the aspirated feature of the initial consonant. The pitch types of Korean loan words are identified as 2-syllable word HL, 3-syllable word LHL, HHL, 4-syllable word LHLL, HHLL, 5-syllable word LHLLL, HHLLL, HHHLL, and errors found in pitch by Chinese speakers of Korean loan words are the high frequency of H realization and frequent use of high pitch in the first syllable. In summary, the prosody of Korean has been primarily studied with a focus on intonation, however like loanwords, rhymes (length or height) within words also need to be studied.
