SYLLABIFICATION PHENOMENA IN KOREAN

Abstract

Despite the superficial difference in the environments where the phenomena of consonant cluster simplification and the change of obstruents to unreleased stops occur, a deeper analysis of the syllabification phenomena has revealed that the cases in (l), (2), (4), and (5) involve processes that in fact take place at the same environment, namely a syllable boundary. Thus the above study presents a case where integration of the concept of syllables in phonological theory yields a more general and revealing account.