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An Optimality-Theoretic Approach to Reduplication in Korean Ideophones
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- Issue Date
- 1997-12
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 언어교육원
- Citation
- 어학연구, Vol.33 No.4, pp. 737-752
- Abstract
- This paper examines the reduplication behavior observed in Korean
ideophones within the framework of Optimality Theory. We argue that
the various effects of reduplication, which can be largely classified into
two, segmental and templatic variation, are instances of the emergence of
the unmarked (TETU). This means that the more unmarked segmental
content and the more harmonious syllable template emerge only in the
reduplicant through the constraint ranking FAlTII-IO≫PHONO-C≫
IDENT-BR(McCarthy and Prince 1995).
To resolve the cases which seem to be quite asymmetric in terms of
the template, we propose the constraint •CLASH between the base and
the reduplicant, to the effect that they are, in fact, conspiring to improve
the syllable structure harmony, and show that no other than OT-based
approach can offer a generalized and consistent explanation about it.
- ISSN
- 0254-4474
- Language
- English
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