Edited by Kunio Nishiyama, Hideki Kishimoto and Edith Aldridge
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 250] 2018
► pp. 303–330
Chapter 14Loanword accent of Kyungsang Korean
A moraic account
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.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Previous studies
- 3.Experiment
- 3.1Data collection
- 3.2Results
- 3.2.1Pitch fall
- 3.2.2Pitch rise
- 4.Analysis
- 4.1Penultimate accent rule
- 4.2Reanalysis of existing data
- 4.3Exceptions and variation
- 4.4Summary
- 5.Comparison with Japanese
- 5.1Pitch fall
- 5.2Pitch rise
- 6.Conclusions and future agenda
- 6.1Summary
- 6.2.Future agenda
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References
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.250.15kub