The Phonology-Syntax Interface in North Kyungsang Korean

Evidence for accentless words in South Kyungsang Korean

Lee, Dongmyung, and Davis, Stuart. 2010. Evidence for accentless words in South Kyungsang Korean. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 16.2. 245-258. Recent studies help to establish Kyungsang Korean as a pitch accent language, which differs from some traditional works that view it as a tone language. The purpose of the current paper is to discuss whether South Kyungsang (SK) Korean h...

The Phonology and Phonetics of Unac- centable Vowels in Kyungsang Korean

Variation and change in the nominal pitch-accent system of South Kyungsang Korean*

This paper considers whether the phonology of the lexical pitch accent of Kyungsang Korean is being maintained by younger innovative speakers. We examine the pitch-accent patterns of nouns with various suffixes by comparing the speech of innovative Kyungsang speakers to that of older conservative speakers. It will be shown that while innovative speakers maintain the underlying distinction in th...

Perception of Lexical Pitch Accent by Kyungsang and Cholla Korean Listeners

This paper investigates the identification and discrimination of lexical pitch accent by native and non-native dialectal listeners. Specifically, this research is focused on examining the relation between linguistic experience and phonetic levels of discrimination in speech perception. Participants identified and discriminated the continuum resynthesized from three pitch accent minimal pairs of...

The Tonal Structures and the Locations of the Main Accent of Kyungsang Korean Words

This paper explicitly provides the experimental analyses for the fundamental arguments of Kyungsang (KS) tone. It provides the locations of the main accent in KS words and its basic tonal units. Furthermore through the results it ultimately contributes to the typological categorization of KS Korean tone. That is, the results of the current experimental analysis of the KS words provide us the ev...