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Palatals contribute to syllable weight: Evidence from Spanish stress assignment
Hayeun Jang 한국음운론학회 2020 음성·음운·형태론 연구 Vol.26 No.2
This paper investigates the issue whether the stress system of Spanish is weight-sensitive by examining the distinctive stress patterns of trisyllabic words with palatal onsets in word-final syllables. Although Spanish trisyllabic words with open penultimate and final syllables can have the primary stress in any syllable, when an onset in a word-final syllable is a palatal consonant, antepenultimate stress is not allowed and penultimate stress occurs. By considering the complex articulatory patterns of palatals and the lengthening of pre-palatal vowels in Spanish, I propose that a palatal onset in the final syllable is attached to an independent moraic node of the penultimate syllable and a syllabic node of the final syllable at the same time. In the framework of Articulatory Phonology, I present how palatal onsets in a word-final syllable can be doubly-linked to two syllables by proposing that a tongue body gesture for palatals forms two types of gestural organizations with adjacent vocalic gestures. The coarticulatory aggressiveness of the tongue body gesture for palatals can account for the lengthening of the overlapping vocalic gesture. Considering the proposed syllabic and gestural structures and final lengthening in Spanish, this paper concludes that Spanish stress assignment is weight-sensitive.
Segmental factors in variations of Korean vowel harmony: A corpus approach
Hayeun Jang 한국언어학회 2020 언어 Vol.45 No.3
This paper investigates the effects of segmental factors in variations of Korean vowel harmony: the number and quality of stem-final consonants and the class of fixed suffix vowels that follow the alternating suffix-initial vowels. Since the motivation of the vowel harmony rule is opaque in Present-Day Korean, this study hypothesizes that speakers of Present Day Korean use vowel-to-vowel coarticulatory cues in the application of the rule. By examining conjugation forms of /a/-final predicate stems in a spontaneous speech corpus of the Seoul dialect (collected by the National Institute of Korean Language in 1997), this paper shows the statistically significant counting and quality effect of stem-final consonants in variations of Korean vowel harmony. Stems closed by two coda consonants show a higher proportion of disharmonic forms than stems ending with a coda or a complex coda involving [h]. Stems having an obstruent coda in the final syllable cooccur with disharmonic forms more frequently than stems with a sonorant or a sonorant+[h] coda do. The result of corpus analysis also shows the effect of fixed suffix vowel: when a fixed suffix vowel following an alternating suffix-initial vowel has a different class from the stem-final vowel (e.g., /a/-final stem vs. [ə]-class fixed suffix vowel), disharmonic forms occur more frequently. Those segmental effects imply that speakers of the Present Day Korean use coarticulatory cues between two vowels in the application of the unnatural vowel harmony rule.
Atypical blending with proper names: A case study of Korean fandom names
장하연(Jang, Hayeun) 한국음운론학회 2021 음성·음운·형태론 연구 Vol.27 No.1
This paper investigates the atypical characteristics of blending found in Korean fandom names. For blends as fandom names, the proper name and the existing word participate as sources, and if clipping occurs, a larger part of the proper name tends to be cut off compared to the existing word. As a result, many blending outputs are phonologically very similar or identical to existing words. In particular, blends with the same phonological form as existing words occupy the largest number in the fandom name dataset. This type of blend was evaluated as absolutely ill-formed, violating the Uniqueness constraint of blending. This paper interprets the creative and playful nature of the blending process as having been reinforced in fandom names to make the newly created name attractive and easy to remember, and evocative of the target proper name. This shows that when analyzing lexical blends, the social and pragmatic purposes of word-formation must be taken into account in addition to phonological and morphological constraints.
장하연(Hayeun Jang),김태우(Taewoo Kim) 사단법인 한국언어학회 2020 언어학 Vol.0 No.88
This paper aims to identify the phonetic relationship between nasals and obstruents in Korean dialects. This paper points out that both the insertion of nasal before and the obstruents" insertion after nasals are observed in various dialects. We propose that those phenomena are due to listeners" hypo-correction of the acoustic aspects of obstruents and nasals, and we argue that the following acoustic effects created in the articulation of obstruents and nasals are responsible for the target phenomena: (i) the acoustic effect made by the subglottal cavity as a side chamber in the articulation of high-airflow sounds, such as aspirated stops and fricatives, (ii) the nasal leakage to maintain the appropriate level of air pressure in the oral cavity for voiced obstruents, and (iii) the partial denasalization of nasals before high vowels. The sporadic examples of the correspondence between obstruents and nasals in various dialects are captured appropriately in this perspective. This paper also proposes that obstruents" classification based on their laryngeal features is better to understand those phenomena than the classification based on manner of articulation. The proposed approach can be applied to understand the substitution between obstruents and nasals in dialectal data.