Initial Consonant, F0, and Tone Pattern in Korean Multi-Syllable Words
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This paper examines the effects of initial consonant on the FO contour of multi-syllable words in Korean. Specifically, it focuses on seeing how far the effect observed for the monosyllable data (M.-R. Kim 2001) does extend in the multi-syllable data. FO measurements and visual inspection of FO contours were obtained for a total of 9,600 words (from two- to five-syllables) recorded by eight Korean speakers. The results show that, in long words, there is a strong correlation between the initial consonant and the H and LH patterns across dialects. This study suggests that the so-called lax stop is underlyingly a plain voiced stop and the consonant-tone correlation is a standard case of voiceless-high and voiced-low, a tonogenesis effect found in many languages.
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This paper examines the effects of initial consonant on the FO contour of multi-syllable words in Korean. Specifically, it focuses on seeing how far the effect observed for the monosyllable data (M.-R. Kim 2001) does extend in the multi-syllable data. FO measurements and visual inspection of FO contours were obtained for a total of 9,600 words (from two- to five-syllables) recorded by eight Korean speakers. The results show that, in long words, there is a strong correlation between the initial consonant and the H and LH patterns across dialects. This study suggests that the so-called lax stop is underlyingly a plain voiced stop and the consonant-tone correlation is a standard case of voiceless-high and voiced-low, a tonogenesis effect found in many languages.