An apparent-time study of an ongoing sound change in Seoul Korean: A prosodic account
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dc.contributor.author | Choi, Jiyoun | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kim, Sahyang | - |
dc.contributor.author | Cho, Taehong | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-19T09:30:01Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2022-04-19T09:30:01Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020-10 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://scholarworks.sookmyung.ac.kr/handle/2020.sw.sookmyung/146867 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In present-day Seoul Korean, the primary phonetic feature for the lenis-aspirated stop distinction is shifting from VOT to F0. Some previous studies have considered this sound change to be a tonogenesis, whereby the low-level F0 perturbation has developed into tonal features (L for the lenis and H for the aspirated) in the segmental phonology. They, however, have examined the stop distinction only at a phrase- or utterance-initial position. We newly explore the sound change in relation to various prosodic structural factors (position and prominence). Apparent-time production data were recorded from four speaker groups: young female, young male, old female, old male. The way the speakers use VOT versus F0 indeed varies as a function of position and prominence. Crucially, in all groups, VOT is still used for the lenis-aspirated distinction phrase-medially due to the lenis stop voicing. This role of VOT, however, is found only in the non-prominent (unfocused) condition, in which the F0 difference is reduced to a low-level perturbation effect. In the prominent (focused) context in which tones come into play, the role of VOT diminishes, led by young female speakers. These can be interpreted as a prosodically-conditioned, complementary use of the features to maintain sufficient contrast. Importantly, however, the tonal difference under focus is not bidirectionally polarized, so that F0 is not lowered for the lenis stop. A lack of direct enhancement of the distinctive L tone weakens a possibility that F0 is transphonologized to the phonemic feature system of the language. As an alternative to the view that tonal features are newly introduced in the segmental phonology, we propose a prosodic account: the sound change is best characterized as a prosodically-conditioned change in the use of the segmental voicing feature (implemented by VOT) versus already available post-lexical tones in the intonational phonology of Korean. | - |
dc.format.extent | 29 | - |
dc.language | 영어 | - |
dc.language.iso | ENG | - |
dc.publisher | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE | - |
dc.title | An apparent-time study of an ongoing sound change in Seoul Korean: A prosodic account | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.publisher.location | 미국 | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0240682 | - |
dc.identifier.scopusid | 2-s2.0-85094168494 | - |
dc.identifier.wosid | 000586647200032 | - |
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation | PLOS ONE, v.15, no.10, pp 1 - 29 | - |
dc.citation.title | PLOS ONE | - |
dc.citation.volume | 15 | - |
dc.citation.number | 10 | - |
dc.citation.startPage | 1 | - |
dc.citation.endPage | 29 | - |
dc.type.docType | Article | - |
dc.description.isOpenAccess | N | - |
dc.description.journalRegisteredClass | scie | - |
dc.description.journalRegisteredClass | scopus | - |
dc.relation.journalResearchArea | Science & Technology - Other Topics | - |
dc.relation.journalWebOfScienceCategory | Multidisciplinary Sciences | - |
dc.subject.keywordPlus | VOICE ONSET TIME | - |
dc.subject.keywordPlus | SEGMENTAL FOCUS | - |
dc.subject.keywordPlus | LEXICAL FOCUS | - |
dc.subject.keywordPlus | IMPLEMENTATION | - |
dc.subject.keywordPlus | CONTRAST | - |
dc.subject.keywordPlus | ENGLISH | - |
dc.subject.keywordPlus | STRESS | - |
dc.subject.keywordPlus | STOPS | - |
dc.subject.keywordPlus | TONOGENESIS | - |
dc.subject.keywordPlus | PERCEPTION | - |
dc.identifier.url | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0240682 | - |
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