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4 - Phonology and Phonetics

from Part II - Language Structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2019

Sungdai Cho  and
John Whitman
Sungdai Cho
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Binghamton
John Whitman
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

Chapter 4 introduces the phonetics and phonology of Korean. In this realm as well, Korean is frequently cited as an unusual example of a language with a three-way distinction among obstruents without a contrast in voicing. In recent years this property has attracted renewed attention, as the aspiration contrast appears to be giving way to a prosodic or tonal distinction. Korean is thus a rare example of an intensively studied, major world language undergoing the process of tonogenesis. Korean is also notable for its processes of consonant cluster reduction, which give rise to a striking difference between underlying and surface forms in many environments. Finally, many dialects of Korean have lexical pitch accent. We discuss the differences between these varieties and the prosody of standard Korean.

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Phonemic inventoryAllophonyManner assimilationProsodySuprasegmental
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A Linguistic Introduction
 , pp. 63 - 95
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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