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Article published In: Korean Linguistics
Vol. 19:1 (2023) ► pp.88–105

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Perception and production mismatch in truncated past tense verbs in Korean

ORCiD logo with link | University of South Carolina
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Published online: 8 June 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/kl.22001.cro
Abstract
Korean is often described as neutralizing its obstruents to unreleased stops in coda position. However, a stylistic truncated form of the intimate past tense expressing avuncularity, contradicts this description by realizing a fricative word finally. Despite tokens elicited from informants lacking phonetic evidence for a word-final vowel, speakers report hearing [ɨ] word-finally in these truncated forms. The present article gives an optimality theoretic (OT) account (McCarthy & Prince 1995) of this phenomenon by utilizing Benua, Laura. 1995. Identity effects in morphological truncation. [URL] base-truncated form (BT) constraints to explain the production of the form and Boersma, Paul, & Silke Hamann. 2008. Loanword adaptation as first-language phonological perception. 10.1.1.182.7425Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar cue constraints to explain the mismatch between the production and perception in parallel to the treatment of loanwords. This suggests that output-output constraints and perceptual cue constraints may interact to create differences in phonological form between production and perception, even within native phonologies, and lends further support for the need for separate production and perception phonologies (Boersma, Paul 1999. On the need for a separate perception grammar. Rutgers Optimality Archive, 3581.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar).
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Korean phonemes
    • 1.2Intimate past tense truncation
  • 2.Optimality theoretic analysis of truncation
    • 2.1Production
    • 2.2Perception
  • 3.Discussion
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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