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

The base of Korean noun paradigms

“…As seen in Table 7, all five CVCC stems terminate in -k in the simplified form and hence we might expect them to inherit any tonal preferences that -k final stems exhibit in the lexicon. The -k final monosyllabic stems in our corpus from Do et al (2014) approximate the distribution of the H(H) and H(L) classes for all monosyllables: H(H) (63%) vs. H(L) (35%) and show a strong dispreference (2%) for the L(H) rise class (as do most obstruents). Thus, here as well, the distribution of the innovative inflected forms with respect to the three tonal classes seen in (2) approximates the distribution of monosyllabic -k final forms in the lexicon as a whole.…”

“…Some speakers reported that innovative forms are not possible for the word pic 'debt'. 8 The South Kyengsang accent column shows the (assumed) most conservative accent class taken from the five consultants in Do et al (2014) or from previous studies (He 1955, Ramsey 1978 …”

“…Do et al (2014) conducted a novel word experiment with 43 South Kyengsang speakers that investigated the tonal assignments for 92 nonce words (40 disyllables, 40 trisyllables, and 12 monosyllables). The subjects were shown the nonce word in a sentence frame in the accusative case on the computer screen in Hangul and were asked to choose among several possible tonal patterns for the word.…”

“…It shows the correspondence rates between the South Kyengsang monosyllables and their MK cognates (for nouns that have an MK cognate whose tone is known). Again, these data represent nouns collected from the five South Kyengsang speakers in Do et al (2014). The shaded numbers indicate the regular phonological correspondences.…”

Iterated Learning Models of Language Change: A Case Study of Sino‐Korean Accent

“…In both descriptive and generative studies about Korean accent so far, the regular correspondences between Middle Korean and contemporary dialects as well as some conditionings/tendencies observed in the historical development have been clarified (Do et al, 2014;Fukui, 2003Fukui, , 2013He, 1955;Ito, 2008Ito, , 2013Ito, , 2014Ramsey, 1978, and others). Still, these traditional approaches have limitations in that it is difficult to test how the historical development was affected by various factors, such as phonotactics, frequency, and so on.…”