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Chapter 10 - Constituent Structure and Sentence Phonology of Korean

from Part II - Phonetics and Phonology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2022

By
Seunghun J. Lee
Edited by
Sungdai Cho  and
John Whitman
Sungdai Cho
Affiliation:
Binghamton University, State University of New York
John Whitman
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

Chapter 10 continues with the discussion of prosodic phonology, but shifts the focus to the issue of how prosody relates to constituent structure in Korean. Korean is interesting because various segmental alternations are sensitive to different prosodic levels, thus providing a test case for prosodic phonology. Lenis stop voicing is a segmental alternation that correlates with the presence of a phonological phrase (Silva 1988; Cho 1990; inter alia). Moreover, intonation patterns coupled with segmental alternations supplant additional data for understanding prosodic structure in Korean. In Seoul Korean, an accentual phrase has been argued to have an LHLH accent; this unit also correlates with segmental alternations such as lenis stop voicing (Jun 1993). The sentence phonology of Korean offers insights into the general issue of the prosody-syntax interface and provides many kinds of evidence on how constituent structure affects the organization of sentence phonology. The chapter first reviews earlier research, then proposes a revised version of the general theory of the prosody-syntax interface.

Keywords

syntax-prosody interfaceprosodic phonologylenis stop voicingphonological phraseconstituent structureintonational phonology
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The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics , pp. 294 - 317
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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