Merger of Vowels in Cheju Korean: Methodological implications for doing fieldwork on endangered Languages = Merger of Vowels in Cheju Korean: Methodological implications for doing fieldwork on endangered Languages

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal. 19(1). 23-40. This study investigates the nature of the non-high front vowels in the Cheju dialect of Korean, based on recordings made in the late 1990s. It focuses on the properties of the two vowels, [e] and [ae], to determine how they are realized in the pronunciation of older generation speakers of Cheju Korean and compares these measurements with data for two speakers of the standard language collected in the 1960s to assess the progress of vowel merger. Several factors that bear on the analysis of these vowels, including external influence and the role of the lexicon, are examined and principles for the proper examination of segments are proposed, with special attention to the phonetic study of endangered languages.

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