Cho, Mi-Hui and Shinsook Lee. 1997. Korean Ideophone Harmony in Optimal Domains Theory. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 3. 279-294. In this paper we provide a unified account of ideophone harmony in Korean within Optimal Domains Theory....
Cho, Mi-Hui and Shinsook Lee. 1997. Korean Ideophone Harmony in Optimal Domains Theory. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 3. 279-294. In this paper we provide a unified account of ideophone harmony in Korean within Optimal Domains Theory. In particular, we show that both high vowel transparency and /u/ variation can be accounted for in a principled way without the problematic underspecification theory; high vowel transparency derives by ranking *[- ATR, + Hi]Noninitia! and WSAword over Expression, while /u/ variation results from ranking Expression over *[-ATH, +Hi]Noninitia!. Further, we show that the feature cooccurrence constraint of *[- ATR, +Hi] is subject to positional sensitivity in Korean ideophone harmony. (Hoseo University and Pukyong National University and Hoseo University)