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Paradigm Leveling in American Korean
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- Issue Date
- 2003
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 언어교육원
- Citation
- 어학연구, Vol.39 No.1, pp. 183-204
- Keywords
- American Korean ; heritage speakers ; bilingual ; language attrition ; paradigm leveling ; verb conjugation ; analogy ; morphophonemic alternation ; pragmatically motivated ; speech level
- Abstract
- This study examines a simplified version of the Korean language spoken by the Korean-American 'heritage' speakers in America, which is dubbed American Korean (AK) in this paper. This paper focuses on the elimination of morphophonemic alternation, i.e., a case of paradigm leveling, in the conjugation of irregular verbs of Korean It is argued that the morphological change has been triggered by the speakers' sociolinguistically biased exposure to the pragmatic system of speech level marking of Korean and
that as a consequence, the verbs of American Korean have all been re-parsed as free, vowel-final morphemes
- ISSN
- 0254-4474
- Language
- English
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