Tonal domains and nonfinality effects in the Samchuk dialect of Korean

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Hwangbo, Young-Shik. 2003. Tonal domains and nonfinality effects in the Samchuk dialect of Korean. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 9.1. 223-246. This paper deals with tones of the Samchuk dialect of Korean, focusing on typical tonal patterns of nouns. I claim that the underlying forms of Korean tone dialects are marked by tonal boundaries, which later define tonal domains. I argue, following Gim (1988, 1999), that in most cases the positions of tonal boundaries are predictable from Middle Korean side-dots, and thus that all modern tone dialects have the same location of tonal boundaries. In addition, I argue, following Hwangbo (2001), that the different tone realization between dialects results from different constraint ranking. I show that the interesting tonal phenomena of the Samchuk dialect can be explained in a principled manner if we have recourse to the tonal boundaries and tonal domains. More specifically, I show that 'post-accenting' and 'pre-accenting' observed in the Samchuk dialect can be explained as nonfinality effects within tonal domains. (Sungkyul University)

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Tonal boundaries and domains
• 3. Tonal constraints
• 4. Tones of the Samchuk dialect
• 5. Constraint-based analysis
• 6. An alternative: Gim;s (1999) rule-baaed analysis
• 7. Conclusion
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