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Kim, Mi-Ryoung. 2012. Tonogenesis in Korean: Some Recent Speculations on the Sound Change. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 37-2, 243-283. Recent studies show that Korean stops are undergoing the sound change in that there is a partial or complete VOT merger of aspirated and lax stops. Little research has been done about the possible relationship between the sound change and tonogenesis in contemporary Korean. In the present study we propose that contemporary Korean is undergoing tonogenesis, characterized by two phonetic evidence, onset-tone interaction and merging of aspirated and lax stops. The nature of the sound change of Korean stops must be understood as tonogenesis. Without the theory of tonogenesis, the current sound change of the Korean stop system remains a puzzle, in particular, why voiceless lax onsets lowers F0, and why they become heavily aspirated. We also suggest that Korean has not undergone tonogenesis before: instead, tones in historical Korean came from pitch accent (Korea Soongsil Cyber University).
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1. Introduction
1.1 The History of Tone or Pitch Accent
1.2 The Korean Stop System
2. Theoretical Background on Tonogenesis
2.1 The Development of Tone
2.2 Phonetics of Tonogenesis
3. Phonetic Evidence of Tonogenesis in Korean
3.1 Onset-Tone Interaction
3.2 The VOT Merger between Aspirated and Lax Stops
4. Different Approaches on Korean Tones
4.1 Korean Is Not Developing Tones: An Intonational Approach
4.2 Korean Is Developing Tones
4.3 Is It Tone or Pitch-Accent in Middle Korean?
5. Conclusion
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