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This paper employs the Transderivational Anti-Faithfulness constraints within Optimality Theory (Alderete, 1999, 2001) to analyze two morpho- phonological phenomena of Standard Korean previously characterized as vowel shortening. The extensively discussed verb stem vowel shortening is interpreted as an outcome of a dominance effect in morphological derivation. Additionally, the vowel shortening phenomenon in exocentric compounds is attributed to a transderivational morphological effect. These analyses of morphologically determined accent phenomena in Korean substantiate the assertion that Korean vowel length is a reflection of the metrical head.