Prosodic Structure of Sino-Korean Words

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the In/-0 alternation and the II/-/nl alternation in Sino-Korean compounds. Compounds of a free stem and a bound root center on the discussion of the paper since they show a conflict in dealing with those two phonological phenomena. Specifically, the analysis significantly hinges on the question of what prosodic structure is postulated for that kind of Sino-Korean compounds. This paper proposes to account for the relevant data by characterizing those compounds as having non-uniform prosodic structure and modifying the domain juncture constraint for the In/-0 alternation.