Focus and boundary effects on coarticulatory vowel nasalization in Korean with implications for cross-linguistic similarities and differences
- Authors
- Jang, Jiyoung; Kim, Sahyang; Cho, Taehong
- Issue Date
- Jul-2018
- Publisher
- ACOUSTICAL SOC AMER AMER INST PHYSICS
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, v.144, no.1, pp.EL33 - EL39
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
- Volume
- 144
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- EL33
- End Page
- EL39
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hongik/handle/2020.sw.hongik/3472
- DOI
- 10.1121/1.5044641
- ISSN
- 0001-4966
- Abstract
- This study investigates focus and boundary effects on Korean nasal consonants and vowel nasalization. Under focus, nasal consonants lengthen in CV (N) under bar# but shorten in #(N) under bar VC, enhancing [nasal] vs [oral]. Vowels resist nasalization under focus, enhancing [oral]. Domain-initial nasal consonants denasalize, exercising no coarticulatory influence. Domain-final nasal consonants shorten counter to expectation, although vowel nasalization increases. Comparison with English data reveals similarities (focus-induced coarticulatory resistance) despite cross-linguistic differences in marking prominence, but it also suggests that prosodic-structural conditioning of non-contrastive vowel nasalization, albeit based on phonetic underpinnings of coarticulatory process, is fine-tuned in language-specific ways, resulting in cross-linguistic variation. (C) 2018 Acoustical Society of America
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