SINGLE H AND DOUBLY-LINKED H IN SOUTH KYUNGSANG KOREAN

Seung-Eun Chang
University of Texas at Austin

ID 1512
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This experiment examines the distinction between single H and doubly-linked H of monomorphemic words (HL, HH) and bimorphemic words (H+L, H+H) in South Kyungsang Korean. The results showed that F0 fall comes later in double H than in single H, and thus peak plateau is longer in double H than in single H. However, F0 timing difference was also found within double H, depending on the morpheme type, i.e., the peak plateau is longer in monomorphemic HH than in bimorphemic H+H. This suggests that the morphological structure may influence the phonetic realization such as F0 timing. In addition, this instrumental data do not confirm the H tone spreading analysis in suffixed words, not as suggested in earlier transcription based studies.