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Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics: Studies in honor of John B. Whitman
Edited by Kunio Nishiyama, Hideki Kishimoto and Edith Aldridge
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 250] 2018
► pp. 303–330

Chapter 14
Loanword accent of Kyungsang Korean

A moraic account

| 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
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
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 12 December 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.250.15kub
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