STUDIES IN THE PHONOLOGY OF ASIAN LANGUAGES. II. DURATION OF KOREAN VOWELS.
Abstract
The aim of the study is to describe a part of the phonological rules of Korean. Limiting itself to one of the features, i.e. the duration of vowels, an attempt is made to establish phonetic habits that control actual vowel length in Korean. If the feature of vowel duration is a distinctive feature in the language each actual occurrence of a vowel must be interpreted as being either short or long. Then, our knowledge of how each vowel changes its length according to its environment is important in order to determine whether or not a given vowel should be analysed as short or long in a given environment. The sample analysis presented dealing with complex acoustical data may be regarded as a possible analytical procedure in descriptive linguistics.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 25, 1964
- Accession Number
- AD0605683
Entities
People
- Mieko S. Han
Organizations
- University of Southern California