Sonority-based Approach to KoreanLiquid Alternation

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study aims to provide a new approach to Korean liquid alternation. Liquid segments are not contrastive in Korean. In other words, flaps and laterals are allophones which are automatically selected by their phonological environment. For example, lateral [l] is selected in coda position as in [tal] “moon” and [mol.le] “secretly” while flap [r] is pronounced in intervocalic position as in [ta.ri] “moon+NOM.” and [mo.re] “sand”. Interestingly, nasal [n] which is contrastive to liquids is selected in the other positions like word initial position and onset after closed syllable except [l] in coda: e.g. [na.kwən] “paradise”, [hjaŋ.nak] “pleasure” (from [lak] means “enjoy”). A number of proposals have been advanced to account for this phenomenon. Nevertheless, they are unsuccessful because they cannot capture the essential nature of the alternation. This study shows that this state of affairs can best be captured by the interaction of the two markedness constraint families based on the sonority scale, within the framework of Optimality Theory.

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