{"id":10337,"date":"2017-09-18T06:08:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T10:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10337"},"modified":"2017-09-18T12:07:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T16:07:18","slug":"phonology-circle-918-suyeon-yun-utoronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/09\/18\/phonology-circle-918-suyeon-yun-utoronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle 9\/18 - Suyeon Yun (UToronto)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/suyeon\/www\/Suyeon_Yun\/home.html\">Suyeon Yun<\/a>\u00a0(University of Toronto)<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:<\/strong> Allophonic variation of the word-initial liquid in Korean dialects<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Monday, September 18, 5:00-6:30pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D831<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This study presents large-scale production data of the word-initial liquid allophones in North and South Korean dialects. In South Korean dialects, liquids cannot occur in word-initial position, and Sino-Korean word-initial liquids undergo deletion (e.g., \/Lipj?l\/ ? [ipj?l] \u0091parting\u0092) or nasalization (e.g., \/Loto?\/ ? [noto?] \u0091labor; Iverson &amp; Kim 1987, a.o.). It is reported, however, that the initial liquid \/l\/ or \/r\/ in recent English loanwords may be realized as [?] (e.g., Lee 1999) or as [l] (Seo 2004). On the other hand, in North Korean dialects, word-initial liquids are retained (e.g., Bae 2011) albeit based on a small number of Sino-Korean words. This study examines the allophonic variation of the word-initial liquid in North Korean as well as in South Korean, involving a considerable number of words, both Sino-Korean and loanwords, and participants that consist of different age groups. 35 speakers of North Korean defectors who speak Northern Hamkyeong dialect and 20 speakers of Seoul Korean read 41 \/L\/-initial words in isolation. Results show that the most common variant of the word-initial liquid is the tap [?], and there are also several conditioned and free allophonic realizations, including the trill [r], approximant [?], lateral [l], nasal [n], and stop [t]. The current data serve as an interesting case of variation, in which one phonemic liquid \/L\/ shows a lot of variability in its phonetic realizations as a result of the interactions between universal phonological constraints (rhotics occur less frequently and stops occur more frequently before \/i\/ than before other vowels (cf. Hall &amp; Hamann 2010)), different lexical stratifications ([n] occurs more frequently in Sino-Korean than other loans), and speakers\u0092 exposure to L2 ([r] occurs more frequently for Russian L2 speakers and [l] occurs more frequently for English L2 speakers).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Suyeon Yun\u00a0(University of Toronto) Title: Allophonic variation of the word-initial liquid in Korean dialects Date and time: Monday, September 18, 5:00-6:30pm Location: 32-D831 Abstract: This study presents large-scale production data of the word-initial liquid allophones in North and South Korean dialects. In South Korean dialects, liquids cannot occur in word-initial position, and Sino-Korean word-initial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10359,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10337\/revisions\/10359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}