Young-Hee Chung. 1997. Vowel Shortening and Evidence for a Moraic Consonant. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 3, 247-264. In the Kyungsang dialect of Korean, there is a vowel shortening process of verb stems. In the literature of the Kor...
Young-Hee Chung. 1997. Vowel Shortening and Evidence for a Moraic Consonant. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 3, 247-264. In the Kyungsang dialect of Korean, there is a vowel shortening process of verb stems. In the literature of the Korean phonology, this process has been viewed as shortening a long vowel of stems. In the present paper, however, it is argued that shortening is a result of lack of a moraic consonant in the case of consonant-final stems, unlike in vowel-final stems. The present analysis using a moraic consonant is superior to previous ones in that it provides a systematic and straightforward explanation for the generalizations captured of consonant-final stems. (Sejong University).