The tonal structures and the locations of the main accent of Kyungsang Korean words

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Dongmyung Lee

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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 evidences that KS Korean is a pitch-accent language. In KS Korean only one accent is assigned on a syllable and other syllables are predictable in terms of pitch. The accent type of South Kyungsang Korean is H*+L with two register tones (H and L). North Kyungsang Korean has two types of accent L+H* and H*.

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