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Abstract

There have been a few linguistic researches on the expressive lengthening in Modern Korean. And we have not yet revealed overall characteristics related to its phonological distributions. In order to investigate this issue, which this paper deals with, I focus on the adjectives and adverbs registered in 'Yonsei Korean Dictionary'. The results are as follows. (1) Distributions of expressive lengthening in Modern Koeran adjectives a. Only 2~3% of the adjectives can undergo expressive lengthening. Their number of syllables are from 4 to 6. b. Words that show the expressive lengthening on the first syllable are almost both Sino-Korean and '-hada' group members, and their number of syllables are from 4 to 6. c. Words that show the expressive lengthening on the second syllable are both 4-syllable ones and '-hada' group members, and most of them are native words. d. Words that show the expressive lengthening on the third syllable are 5-syllable native word except a few. e. Words that show the expressive lengthening on the fifth syllable are both 6-syllable native words and '-hada' group members. (2) Distributions of expressive lengthening in Modern Korean adverbs a. Adverbs that can undergo expressive lengthening are below 2%, and their number of syllables are from 1 to 4. b. 2-syllable words undergo expressive lengthening on the first syllable. c. 3-syllable words that are derived from adjectives have a strong tendency to maintain the expressive lengthening of the word-base adjectives. d. 4-syllable words maintain the expressive lengthening of the word-base words, and reduplicated words show different lengthening behavior based on their lexical identity(native or non-native). In a word, we can say that expressive lengthening of adjectives and adverbs in Modern Korean is related with their length, lexical identity, and word-base.