Mora Assignment and Vowel Shortening

Hyang-Sook Sohn 한국음운론학회 1997 음성·음운·형태론 연구 Vol.3 No.-

Sohn, Hyang-Sook. 1997. Mora Assignment and Vowel Shortening. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 5, 119-139. The purpose of this paper is to provide a moraic analysis of vowel shortening in the Kyungsang dialect, with crucial reference to the syllable weight. This paper argues for a moraic representation in which sonorants are assigned the mora in the coda position whereas obstruents are not. Vowel shortening, then, is equivalent to the loss of a corresponding mora when the mora-bearing unit is resyllabified. This explains why vowel shortening is restricted to the stems ending with sonorant. The shortening contrast in the stems ending with consonant clusters is also examined on the basis of two factors: prosodic licensing of the stem-final segment and its moraic nature. The contrast in coronal vs. noncoronal obstruents suggests that sonority hierarchy be further refined to reflect their different moraicity.

The Output-to-Output Weight-Identity Constraint in the Forms Related by Optional Rules

No-Ju Kim,Hyang-Sook Sohn 한국음운론학회 1999 음성·음운·형태론 연구 Vol.5 No.2

No-Ju Kim & Hyang-Sook Sohn. 1999. The Output-to-Output Weight-Identity Constraint in the Forms Related by Optional Rules. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 5.2, 323-336. This paper shows that compensatory lengthening occurs in Korean only in the forms related by optional phonological or morphological rules. This peculiarity is explained within the framework of Correspondence Theory by the Output-to-Output (00) Weight-Identity Constraint, which regulates weight identity between the two possible output forms. This paper argues that the notion of faithfulness is extensible to the forms related not only by morphological rules but also by phonological rules. (Kyungpook National University)

상위 인지적 과정으로서 창의성과 교육적 시사

손향숙 龍仁大學校 2004 용인대학교 논문집 Vol.22 No.-

The present study might serve to dispel the clich'es that creativity is divergent thinking and creative insight occurs independently from hard work and conscious experimentation. Cognitive science seems to provide a good frame of reference for the study of creative processes. And it would seem clear that metacognitive processes can be related to creative thinking processes. Metacognition refers to the control or self regulation involved in setting goals, planning, using systematic cognitive processing, monitoring, and evaluating. The systematic metacognitive approaches of creativity that have been examined are : (1)Cognitive Spiral Model (2)Creativity As A Self-Regulatory Metacognitive Process (As A model) (3) Geneplore Model and(4) Knowledge Base, Metacognitive Skill, and Personality Factor Model. Several implications for educational practice that can be obtained from the models are as follows (1) Provide tasks and materials to stimulate self-initiated exploration : (2) Encourage to make domain-relevant knowledge base : (3) Promote self-regulation process : (4) Provide supportive environment to tolerate ambiguity.

前腕部 經穴 取穴에서 骨度分寸法과 一夫法의 比較 硏究

박히준,채윤병,차웅석,박종배,이혜정,이향숙,인창식,고형균,김수영,최일환,김강식,문정배,배기태,유경환,육근영,정병주,손인철,임사비나 WHO COLLABORATING CENTRE FOR TRADITIONAL MEDICINE 2004 東西醫學硏究所 論文集 Vol.2004 No.-

Background : The cun measurement System, an essential and convenient method in locating acupoints, has been widely used in the practice of acupuncture. However, traditional cun measurement has been criticized for its lack of reliability. Objectives : The purposes of this study are to determine if one cun measured by the directional methods have a consistency with that of proportional methods and to investigate which factors are related with these differences, especially in forearm. Methods : The distance between the elbow crease and the wrist crease of forearm was compared to a reference value of one cun obtained by the directional method. In this method, one cun is one third of the distance between index finger and Small finger of a subject, measured at proximal interphalangeal joint. In addition, to investigate the factors influencing the differences between these two methods, we measured the height and body weight and calculated body mass index (BMI). Finally we analyzed the factors correlated with these lengths by linear regression test. Results : The results showed that one cun obtained by the directional methods were significantly different from one cun by the proportional methods in forearm. It was demonstrated that the length acquired with the directional method was more correlated with body weight and body mass index, while the length obtained by the proportional method was more correlated with the height.

The NPI and Phonological Phrasing in North Kyungsang Korean

Hyang Sook Sohn 언어과학회 1999 언어과학연구 Vol.16 No.-

In this paper phonological phrasing in relation to the negative polarity items (NPI) is accounted for by way of constraint interaction within the framework of optimality theory. This paper argues that the NPI carries focus with respect to phonological phrasing, as a parallel to phonological phrasing of some inherently focus-attracting particles, hence showing post-NPI dephrasing effect. Given the multiple foci situation, however, dephrasing is shown to be delimited by interaction of the alignment constraints and gradient evaluation of the edgemost constraint. The pitch peak of the phonological phrase involving the NPI is argued to be a function of phrasing, rather than a direct assignment of the H tone on the NPI per se, lending supporting evidence to the claim that phonological phrasing is syntactically sensitive to the phrasal edge only.

Morphological basis of sonorant assimilation in Korean

Hyang-Sook Sohn(손형숙) 한국음운론학회 2006 음성·음운·형태론 연구 Vol.12 No.2

  Focusing on aspects of assimilation between two alveolar sonorants /n/ and /l/, this study provides an optimality-theoretic account of sonorant assimilation, where lateralization takes place when the lateral is followed by the nasal, but nasalization is the predominant pattern of assimilation when the precedence is reversed. This generalization holds true for different strata of the lexicon and different domains of the prosodic hierarchy. This study claims that morphological information on the status of morphemes in the domain of sonorant assimilation is crucial on account of geminate structure in the output. When two alveolar sonorants are in contact across the prosodic word boundary, the nature of geminate in the output is not feature-dependent, but stem-driven, and more specifically, faithfulness to the stem-final sonorant is more imperative than to the stem-initial sonorant.

Prosodic Structure of Wh-interrogatives and Intervention Effects in North Kyungsang Korean

Hyang-Sook Sohn(손형숙) 한국언어학회 2017 언어 Vol.42 No.4

Resorting to prosodic structure of double foci construction, this study aims to provide a prosody-based account of intervention effects, and claims that fronting of the wh-in-situ as a syntactic operation is prosodically motivated. In this approach, intervention effects arise as a consequence of prosodic search for the optimal form to resolve the conflicts among prosodic constraints induced by focus. Selection of optimal prosodic structure is accounted for in the framework of Optimality Theory and this study shows how resolution of conflicts among prosodically motivated constraints results in asymmetry in linear precedence between interveners and wh-operator. This supports the claim that prosody is a crucial factor in determining grammatical linearization. Prosodic constraints induced by wh-operator and focus are further extended to indefinite pronominals in focus construction. As a corollary to interactions of prosodic constraints induced by focus, linear precedence relation between indefinite pronominals and focus naturally falls out from the constraint ranking required anyway. Examining a set of pairwise precedence relations based on prosodic structure, we draw the generalization that indefinite pronominals are followed by wh-operator, which in turn is followed by focus-inducing items. This indicates that fronting of DPs, relative to another focus, is a necessary condition for optimal phrasing in focus construction, and corroborates the claim that syntactic structure is conditioned by prosodic structure.

Eurythmy and the Stacked Left-branching Structure

Hyang- Sook Sohn 한국언어학회 2001 언어 Vol.26 No.3

Phonetic Implementation of the Darkness of English Word-final /l/ across Prosodic Positions: Comparison of Native English Speakers and EFL Korean Speakers

Hyang?Sook Sohn,Shinyoung Lim 한국영어학회 2020 영어학 Vol.20 No.-

What Looks Left-branching is Right-branching : Evidence from Phonological Phrasing in North Kyungsang Korea

Sohn, Hyang-Sook 서울대학교 어학연구소 2001 語學硏究 Vol.37 No.4

Both possessive and conjunctive structures result in unary phrasing in North Kyungsang Korean, which proves to be a highly marked phrasing pattern, given the preferred effect of eurythmy in phonololgical phrasing of the left-branching structure. Thus, this paper argues for the right-branchingness of the possessive and the conjunctive constructions with reference to phonological phrasing. Specifically, this study claims that the rightmost conjunct of the conjunctive structure is syntactically followed by the conjunctive case marker, hence inducing the branching structure for that final conjunctive element. Supporting evidence for this claim is drawn from the colloquial speech of Modern Korean and the Middle Korean work Suk-po-sang-col. As a corollary to this claim, it follows that the mapping constraint referring to the left-edge automatically spins out predominantly unary phrases.