Weight-sensitive Tone Patterns in Loan Words of South Kyungsang Korean
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Weight-sensitive Tone Patterns in Loan Words of South Kyungsang Korean The purpose of this paper is to provide an explicit formal account for the loan word tone patterns of South Kyungsang Korean (SK), a dialect spoken in the southeastern part of Korea. Whereas in the native vocabulary the tone patterns are lexically determined, loan words exhibit to large extent predictable tone assignment. On the basis of over 2200 loan words, we could tell that Weight-sensitivity plays an important role in the tone assignment of SK loan words. The general tone patterns of SK loanwords can be described as follow: first, if the first syllable is heavy then High tone (H) goes on the first syllable and spreads rightward. Second, otherwise H goes on the second syllable and spreads rightward whatever the following syllable. Third, the foot structure of the tone patterns is Iambic. Finally, We adopt Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993, McCarthy and Prince 1993, 1995, 1999) to provide an integral analysis of the tone patterns of SK loan words. The emergence of particular tone regularities provided in the paper will be interesting from the point of view of language universals and typology, as well as the theory.
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