Paper Info
Title
The Korean Prevocalic Palatal Glide: A Comparison with the Russian Glide and Palatalization.
Abstract
Phonetic studies of the Korean prevocalic glides have often suggested that they are shorter in duration than those of languages like English, and lack a prolonged steady state. In addition, the formant frequencies of the Korean labiovelar glide are reported to be greatly influenced by the following vowel. In this study the Korean prevocalic palatal glide is investigated vis-a-vis the two phonologically similar configurations of another language - the glide /j/ and the secondary palatalization of Russian, with regard to the inherent duration of the glide component, F2 trajectory, vowel-to-glide coarticulation and glide-to-vowel coarticulation. It is revealed that the Korean palatal glide is closer to the Russian palatalization in duration and F2 trajectory, indicating a lack of steady state, and to the Russian segmental glide in the vowel-to-glide coarticulation degree. When the glide-to-vowel coarticulation is considered, the Korean palatal glide is distinguished from both Russian categories. The results suggest that both the Korean palatal glide and the Russian palatalization involve significant articulatory overlap, the former with the vowel and the latter with the consonant. Phonological implications of such a difference in coarticulation pattern are discussed, as well as the comparison between the Korean labiovelar and palatal glides. (C) 2016 S. Karger AG, Basel
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1159/000444189
PHONETICA
Field
DocType
Volume
Consonant,Psychology,Coarticulation,Speech recognition,Vowel,Formant,Linguistics
Journal
73
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0031-8388
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yunju Suh100.34
Jiwon Hwang200.68