“Tense” and “Lax” Stops in Korean
dc.contributor.author | Kim, Mi-Ryoung | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Duanmu, San | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-08T20:57:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-08T20:57:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004-01 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Kim, Mi-Ryoung; Duanmu, San; (2004). "“Tense” and “Lax” Stops in Korean." Journal of East Asian Linguistics 13(1): 59-104. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/42997> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0925-8558 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1572-8560 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/42997 | |
dc.description.abstract | Korean is thought to be unique in having three kinds of voiceless stops: aspirated /p h t h k h /, tense /p* t* k*/, and lax /p t k/. The contrast between tense and lax stops raises two theoretical problems. First, to distinguish them either a new feature [tense] is needed, or the contrast in voicing (or aspiration) must be increased from two to three. Either way there is a large increase in the number of possible stops in the world's languages, but the expansion lacks support beyond Korean. Second, initial aspirated and tense consonants correlate with a high tone, and lax and voiced consonants correlate with a low tone. The correlation cannot be explained in the standard tonogenesis model (voiceless-high and voiced-low). We argue instead that (a) underlyingly "tense" stops are regular voiceless unaspirated stops, and "lax" stops are regular voiced stops, (b) there is no compelling evidence for a new distinctive feature, and (c) the consonant-tone correlation is another case of voiceless-high and voiced-low. We conclude that Korean does not have an unusual phonology, and there is no need to complicate feature theory. | en_US |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Linguistics | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Chinese | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Comparative Linguistics | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Japanese | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Languages and Literature | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Theoretical Languages | en_US |
dc.title | “Tense” and “Lax” Stops in Korean | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | East Asian Languages and Cultures | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Humanities | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Linguistics, The University of Michigan, 4080 Frieze Building, 105 State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1285, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Practical English, Korea Cyber University, Shinchon-dong, Seodaemun-ku, Seoul, 120-749, Korea E-mail | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/42997/1/10831_2004_Article_5147651.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:JEAL.0000007344.43938.4e | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Journal of East Asian Linguistics | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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