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When Seoul-dialect speakers attempt to learn Japanese language, "end focus" affects to syntactic structure, information sturcture, and speech discourse. "End focus" is identified by pitch changes and segmental lengthening at the end of the Perceptual Sense Unit(PSU). Ten Seoul-dialect speakers were chosen for the research on speech discourse. The results showed that "end focus" is classified as, the grammatical form at the end of postposition in speech discourse. Mostly, "end focus" is identified as meaning of reason postposition 「te(de)A」, meaning of adversative conjunction 「keredomo」, meaning of order postposition 「te(de)」, meaning of reason postposition 「node·kara」, and meaning of theme postposition 「wa」. Also, "end focus" has two discourse functions they are, one, a speech continuance marker, and two. an emphatic marker in speech discourse.