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Merger-in-Progress of Tonal Classes in Masan/Changwon Korean
Utsugi, Akira
51453
prosody
tone
intonation
merger-in-progress
Gyeongsang (Kyungsang) Korean
In Masan/Changwon Korean, a dialect in the South Gyeongsang (Kyungsang) Province, two lexical tonal classes—“Final” and “Medial-Double” (M-Double)— have similar phonetic realizations. In data collection, three sets of materials were recorded from younger speakers: (i) words with particles, (ii) compounds and (iii) sentences with contrastive focus, each set containing either Final or M-Double words. The results revealed that the two classes were indeed under a merger-in-progress in younger speakers. In addition, betweenspeaker and between-condition (material set) differences were found on how classes merge. The between-condition difference is a challenge for theories on lexical tonal representations.
journal article
Language Research Institute, Seoul National University
2009
application/pdf
Language Research
1
45
23
42
http://hdl.handle.net/2237/19631
0254-4474
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/17545/files/UtsugiA_2009c.pdf
eng