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Languages of the World Korean 9/20/2010 Speakers spoken in North and South Korean, each with various dialects and a different standard form spoken by about 66,305,890 people (www.ethnologue.com), mostly in N. and S. Korea Location


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Languages of the World Korean

9/20/2010

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Speakers

  • spoken in North and South Korean, each with

various dialects and a different standard form

  • spoken by about 66,305,890 people

(www.ethnologue.com), mostly in N. and S. Korea

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Location

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Phonetics/Phonology

bilabial dental/alveola r palatal velar plosives lenis p ㅂ t ㄷ c ㅈ k ㄱ fortis pp ㅃ tt ㄸ cc ㅉ kk ㄲ aspirated ph ㅍ th ㅌ ch ㅊ kh ㅋ fricatives non-tense s ㅅ tense ss ㅆ

  • 3-way distinction for all plosives between

unaspirated lenis (lax), unaspirated fortis (tense) and aspirated

  • 2-way distinction for fricatives between lenis and

fortis

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Phonological changes of a morpheme

  • A morpheme is a part of a word with a

meaning or function.

– e.g. cat, -s (plural marker), ling- (linguist, lingual, bilingual)

  • Sound changes frequently occur when two

morphemes come together (e.g. compounds words, attaching affixes)

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Phonological Changes

  • In the following slides, we will examine some
  • f the regular phonological changes in Korean.

Keep in mind that there are other changes

  • ccurring as well.
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What change is occurring?

/nat/ → [nat] ‘cereal grains’ /nath/ → [nat] ‘piece, unit’ /nas/ → [nat] ‘sickle’ /nac/ → [nat] ‘daytime’ /nach/ → [nat] ‘face’ /ip/ → [ip] ‘mouth’ /iph/ → [ip] ‘leaf’

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What change is occurring?

/kiph-ni/ → *kim.ni+ ‘Is it deep?’ /cip+mun/ → [cim.mun] ‘house gate’ /cəc nɛmsɛ/ → [cən.nɛm.sɛ+ ‘milk smell’ /kkoch+namu/ → *kkon.na.mu+ ‘flower tree’

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What change is occurring?

/kaps-i/ → [kap.ssi+ ‘price’ (subject) /kiph-ta/ → [kip.tta+ ‘to be deep’ /nɨc+ke/ → [nɨt.kke+ ‘late’ (adverb) /kuksu/ → [kuk.ssu+ ‘noodles’ /mith+patak/ → [mit.ppa.dak]

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What change is occurring?

/papo/ → [pabo] ‘idiot’ /totuk/ → [toduk+ ‘thief’ /koki/ → [kogi+ ‘meat’ /kalpi/ → [kalbi+ ‘spare ribs’ /sam+to/ → [samdo+ ‘three degrees’ /han+kɨl/ → [haŋgɨl+ ‘Korean alphabet’

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What change is occurring?

/khoŋ+jəs/ → *khoŋɲət+ ‘bean candy’ /os ip-ko/ → *oɲ.ɲip.kko+ ‘get dressed and ...’ /us-i/ →*uɲ.ɲi] ‘upper tooth’ /hoth+ipul/ →*hoɲ.ɲibul+ ‘sheet’

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What change is occurring?

/kkoch+iph/→ kkot+ip → kkot+ɲip → [kkoɲ.ɲip]

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References

Most data from: Sohn, Ho-Min (1999). The Korean language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.