Accent classes in South Kyengsang Korean: Lexical drift, novel words and loanwords

This paper examines changes in the accent class affiliation of c. 1900 words from Middle Korean into the modern South Kyengsang dialect. The data present the profile of a canonical analogical change: words are attracted to larger lexical classes and words of lower token frequency are more likely to...

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Main Authors: Do, Youngah, Ito, Chiyuki, Kenstowicz, Michael
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111161
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6490-1420