Focus and boundary effects on coarticulatory vowel nasalization in Korean with implications for cross-linguistic similarities and differences
- Title
- Focus and boundary effects on coarticulatory vowel nasalization in Korean with implications for cross-linguistic similarities and differences
- Author
- 조태홍
- Keywords
- NASALITY; PATTERNS
- Issue Date
- 2018-07
- Publisher
- ACOUSTICAL SOC AMER AMER INST PHYSICS
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, v. 144, no. 1, page. EL33-EL39
- Abstract
- This study investigates focus and boundary effects on Korean nasal consonants and vowel nasalization. Under focus, nasal consonants lengthen in CV (N) under bar# but shorten in #(N) under bar VC, enhancing [nasal] vs [oral]. Vowels resist nasalization under focus, enhancing [oral]. Domain-initial nasal consonants denasalize, exercising no coarticulatory influence. Domain-final nasal consonants shorten counter to expectation, although vowel nasalization increases. Comparison with English data reveals similarities (focus-induced coarticulatory resistance) despite cross-linguistic differences in marking prominence, but it also suggests that prosodic-structural conditioning of non-contrastive vowel nasalization, albeit based on phonetic underpinnings of coarticulatory process, is fine-tuned in language-specific ways, resulting in cross-linguistic variation. (C) 2018 Acoustical Society of America
- URI
- https://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/1.5044641https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/119402
- ISSN
- 0001-4966; 1520-8524
- DOI
- 10.1121/1.5044641
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- COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES[S](인문과학대학) > ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE(영어영문학과) > Articles
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