Chapter published in:
Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics: Studies in honor of John B. WhitmanEdited by Kunio Nishiyama, Hideki Kishimoto and Edith Aldridge
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 250] 2018
► pp. 303–329
Loanword accent of Kyungsang Korean
A moraic account
Haruo Kubozono | National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
This paper reanalyzes loanword prosody of North and South Kyungsang Korean and proposes a mora-based accentual analysis as opposed to the traditional syllable-based tonal analyses. The new analysis is based on the following three observations. First, loanwords in both North and South Kyungsang Korean are invariably ‘accented’ in that they involve a sudden pitch fall at the surface output. Second, accent in Kyungsang Korean is fixed in a certain position of the word and does not change in phrases. Third, Kyungsang loanwords are generally accented on their penultimate mora: pitch falls between the penultimate and final moras in most loanwords, whether it is across syllables or within a syllable. Kyungsang Korean is thus a ‘mora-counting language’ as far as loanword prosody is concerned, just like many Japanese dialects.
Keywords: loanword accent, Kyungsang Korean, penultimate accent, Japanese, mora, mora-counting language, contour tone
Published online: 12 December 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.250.15kub
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.250.15kub
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