Lexical-Feature Redundancy Rules of Korean

Abstract

This paper presents part of the phonological redundancy rules of Korean in the framework of generative grammar. The conception of the 'redundancy rules' is taken from Halle's original formulation of 'Morpheme Structure Rules' in 1959. I understand the details of Morpheme Structure Rules are open to be discussed from a variety of theoretical and practical standpoints. The posit ion I maintain in this paper, however, is that a section of the redundancy rules should state the phonological features which could be predicted by virtue of the feature combinations of phonological segments which make up lexical entries in a lexicon of a particular grammar. In short, the ' lexical-feature redundancy rules' presented on the following pages are formulated with an explicit aim of saving the predictable features of phonological segments in the lexicon of the Korean language.