Pitch Accent in Korean
Typologically, pitch-accent languages stand between stress languages like Spanish and tone languages like Shona, and share properties of both. In a stress language typically just one syllable per word is accented and bears the major stress (cf. Spanish sábana ‘sheet’, sabána ‘plain’, Panamá). In a t...
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| description | Typologically, pitch-accent languages stand between stress languages like Spanish and tone languages like Shona, and share properties of both. In a stress language typically just one syllable per word is accented and bears the major stress (cf. Spanish sábana ‘sheet’, sabána ‘plain’, Panamá). In a tone language the number of distinctions grows geometrically with the size of the word. So in Shona, which contrasts high vs. low tone, trisyllabic words have eight possible pitch patterns. In a canonical pitch-accent language such as Japanese, just one syllable (or mora) per word is singled out as
distinctive, as in Spanish. But each syllable in the word is assigned a high or low tone (as in Shona); however, this assignment is predictable based on the location of the accented syllableKeywords: tonal accent, diachrony, phonetic realization, compounds, phonological phrases, loanwords, frequency, reconstruction |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1167212022-09-29T18:38:32Z Pitch Accent in Korean Ito, Chiyuki Kenstowicz, Michael Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Kenstowicz, Michael J. Ito, Chiyuki Kenstowicz, Michael Typologically, pitch-accent languages stand between stress languages like Spanish and tone languages like Shona, and share properties of both. In a stress language typically just one syllable per word is accented and bears the major stress (cf. Spanish sábana ‘sheet’, sabána ‘plain’, Panamá). In a tone language the number of distinctions grows geometrically with the size of the word. So in Shona, which contrasts high vs. low tone, trisyllabic words have eight possible pitch patterns. In a canonical pitch-accent language such as Japanese, just one syllable (or mora) per word is singled out as distinctive, as in Spanish. But each syllable in the word is assigned a high or low tone (as in Shona); however, this assignment is predictable based on the location of the accented syllableKeywords: tonal accent, diachrony, phonetic realization, compounds, phonological phrases, loanwords, frequency, reconstruction 2018-07-02T17:39:17Z 2018-07-02T17:39:17Z 2017-04 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/BookItem http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116721 Ito, Chiyuki and Michael J. Kenstowicz. "Pitch Accent in Korean." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, edited by Heidi Harley and Shigeru Miyagawa, Oxford University Press, 2017. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6490-1420 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.242 Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Oxford University Press Prof. Kenstowicz |
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