Speech Sciences (음성과학)
- Volume 7 Issue 4
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- Pages.123-148
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- 2000
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- 1226-5276(pISSN)
Prosodic Conditions for Epenthetic Nasals
Abstract
This paper investigates prosodic conditions for the epenthetic /n/ in Korean. It has been claimed that an epenthetic /n/ appears across prosodic words (Han 1994, Lee 1996). However, using acoustic data as well as aerodynamic data, I argue that the epenthetic /n/ does not always surface across all prosodic words, but that its appearance is prosodically restricted. I further demonstrate that it appears only across prosodic words within an accentual phrase. This finding provides empirical support for the intonation-based model of Korean prosodic structure studies.