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This study analyzes tensification in Korean within the framework of Optimality Theory with candidate chains (McCarthy 2007a, 2007b, 2007c). Two important issues are addressed in this paper. The first is that Korean displays more than one type of tensification: post-obstruent tensification, compound tensification, Sino-Korean tensification, modifier tensification, and predicate tensification (Kim 1970; Lee 1972; Kim-Renaud 1974; Chung 1980; Ahn 1985, 1998, 2002; Oh 1987, 1988). The second is that some Korean tensification phenomena are characterized by counterbleeding opacity in which the triggers are invisible in the surface structure. Given this, the present study proposes that in spite of such complexity diverse types of tensification can be accounted for by post-obstruent tensification. This approach reveals that a latent feature (FTENSE)
exists and thus entails tensification. For Optimality Theory with candidate chains, the precedence constraint PRECEDENCE (IDENTITY-[tense], MAX) can account for counterbleeding in tensification.