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17 - Asymmetrical prosodic effects on the laryngeal gesture in Korean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 May 2011

Sun-Ah Jun
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
Bruce Connell
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Amalia Arvaniti
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
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Introduction

It is well established that prosody conditions segmental and suprasegmental features. In English, for example, segments are lengthened at the end of a phrase (e.g. Oiler, 1973; Beckman & Edwards, 1990), and the “gestural magnitude” of /h/ is weakened word medially or in deaccented words (Pierrehumbert & Talkin, 1992). Additionally, Keating, Linker & Huffman (1983) show that many languages have different allophones for voiced or voiceless stops depending on position within the word or the phrase. However, such effects are often not symmetrical with respect to the edges of a prosodic unit. For example, in German, voiced stops often become voiceless word initially as well as word finally, but this causes neutralization only word finally, where the contrasting voiceless stop is not aspirated.

Korean also has such prosodically conditioned strengthenings and weakenings of laryngeal features, and asymmetries between word initial and word final position. In syllable initial position, there is a three-way contrast among aspirated, tense, and lenis voiceless obstruents, but this contrast is preserved only in the initial position of a word in isolation. In word medial onset position, the lenis stops are voiced between sonorants. In syllable final position, the distinction is neutralized completely to an unreleased lenis stop. The weakening processes in word medial and syllable final position have been described by phonologists (e.g. Cho, 1987; Kim-Renaud, 1974; Kang, 1992) as Lenis Stop Voicing and Coda Neutralization, respectively.

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Phonology and Phonetic Evidence
Papers in Laboratory Phonology IV
, pp. 235 - 253
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1995

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