A cross-dialectal study of semantic structure and prosodic effect on Korean Sais-Sori

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26770157
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: Hwang Hyun Kyung 大学共同利用機関法人人間文化研究機構国立国語研究所, 理論・対照研究領域, 非常勤研究員 (80704858)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: laryngeal contrast / lax / tense / stop / fricative / compound

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The conditions regarding Korean sais-Sori epenthesis have been extensively documented. However, the psychological reality of the conditions remained to be experimentally investigated. The current study investigated the process focusing on listeners' perceptual aspects. Further, this study included an understudied dialect of Korean which is spoken in the south eastern part of Kyungsang Province. This variety of Korean is an instructive testing ground of laryngeal contrast as it lacks the contrast between lax and tense in fricatives. This research not only enables us to better understand the mechanism of the process, but also provides linguistic data of an endangered dialect.

Free Research Field

韓国語と日本語の音声学・音韻論