Accent classes in South Kyengsang Korean: Lexical drift, novel words and loanwords

Do, Youngah; Ito, Chiyuki; Kenstowicz, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2014.05.006

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“…As seen in Table 7, all five CVCC stems terminate in -k in the simplified form and hence we might expect them to inherit any tonal preferences that -k final stems exhibit in the lexicon. The -k final monosyllabic stems in our corpus from Do et al (2014) approximate the distribution of the H(H) and H(L) classes for all monosyllables: H(H) (63%) vs. H(L) (35%) and show a strong dispreference (2%) for the L(H) rise class (as do most obstruents). Thus, here as well, the distribution of the innovative inflected forms with respect to the three tonal classes seen in (2) approximates the distribution of monosyllabic -k final forms in the lexicon as a whole.…”

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“…Some speakers reported that innovative forms are not possible for the word pic 'debt'. 8 The South Kyengsang accent column shows the (assumed) most conservative accent class taken from the five consultants in Do et al (2014) or from previous studies (He 1955, Ramsey 1978 …”

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“…Do et al (2014) conducted a novel word experiment with 43 South Kyengsang speakers that investigated the tonal assignments for 92 nonce words (40 disyllables, 40 trisyllables, and 12 monosyllables). The subjects were shown the nonce word in a sentence frame in the accusative case on the computer screen in Hangul and were asked to choose among several possible tonal patterns for the word.…”

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“…It shows the correspondence rates between the South Kyengsang monosyllables and their MK cognates (for nouns that have an MK cognate whose tone is known). Again, these data represent nouns collected from the five South Kyengsang speakers in Do et al (2014). The shaded numbers indicate the regular phonological correspondences.…”

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This paper reports and analyzes the tonal patterns that emerge in South Kyengsang monosyllabic nouns that exhibit two well-known analogical changes in stem shape, one involving coronal obstruent codas and the other stems with an underlying cluster. By the first change, underlying and orthographic /nac h / 'face' inflects as nat ̚ , nac h -il (conservative) or nas-il (innovative); and by the second underlying /talk/ 'chicken' inflects as tak ̚ , talk-il (conservative) or tak-il (innovative). We find that many such nouns with a high-low tonal pattern change to high-high when inflected with the segmentally innovative stem. We propose that this tonal change supports the model of Korean noun paradigms proposed in Albright (2008) and Do (2013) in which the citation form serves as the base for the construction of the suffixed forms. If the base is a neutralization site, then learners select the alternant in which they have the greatest confidence of scoring a correct hit when undoing the neutralization.

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“…In both descriptive and generative studies about Korean accent so far, the regular correspondences between Middle Korean and contemporary dialects as well as some conditionings/tendencies observed in the historical development have been clarified (Do et al, 2014;Fukui, 2003Fukui, , 2013He, 1955;Ito, 2008Ito, , 2013Ito, , 2014Ramsey, 1978, and others). Still, these traditional approaches have limitations in that it is difficult to test how the historical development was affected by various factors, such as phonotactics, frequency, and so on.…”

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Iterated learning models of language evolution have typically been used to study the emergence of language, rather than historical language change. We use iterated learning models to investigate historical change in the accent classes of two Korean dialects. Simulations reveal that many of the patterns of historical change can be explained as resulting from successive generations of phonotactic learning. Comparisons between different iterated learning models also suggest that Korean learners’ phonotactic generalizations are guided by storage of entire syllable‐sized units, and provide evidence that perceptual confusions between different forms substantially impacted historical change. This suggests that in addition to accounting for the evolution of broad general characteristics of language, iterated learning models can also provide insight into more detailed patterns of historical language change.

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Accent classes in South Kyengsang Korean: Lexical drift, novel words and loanwords

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The base of Korean noun paradigms

The base of Korean noun paradigms

Iterated Learning Models of Language Change: A Case Study of Sino‐Korean Accent

Analogical change of accent in the verbal inflection of Yanbian Korean

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