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| Title: | Accentual Adaptation in North Kyungsang Korean |
| Authors: | Michael Kenstowicz, Hyang-Sook Sohn |
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| Length: | 12 |
| Abstract: | Accentual Adaptation in North Kyungsang Korean Michael Kenstowicz and Hyang-Sook Sohn MIT Kyungsang Korean is a pitch accent system in which words contrast for the location of the pitch peak: káci 'kind', kací 'eggplant', ká:cí 'branch'. This study, based on a corpus of c. 600 items, examines the accent of foreign word adaptations (principally from English). Our major finding is that despite the contrastive nature of accent in both the donor and the recipient languages, the accent is largely predictable on the basis of principles internal to NK grammar as well as possible default settings of UG. The paper also considers several segmental alterations that affect the moraic and syllabic structure (and hence the accent) including gemination, diphthongs, and epenthetic vowels. We conclude with discussion of a systematic lexical gap (no noun stems ending in -t) that is imposed on loanwords (thikét, thikhés-i 'ticket'). |
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| Article: | Version 1 |