Pitch Accent in Korean
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Ito, Chiyuki
Kenstowicz, Michael
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April 2017
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics
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Oxford University Press
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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.
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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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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