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Korean Linguistics - Volume 19, Issue 1, 2023
Volume 19, Issue 1, 2023
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A role of functional morphemes in Korean categorial grammars
Author(s): Jungyeul Park and Mija Kimpp.: 1–30 (30)More LessAbstractThis study discusses a role of functional morphemes in Korean categorial grammars, providing the reviews of various types of Korean categorial grammars that have never been conducted so far, notwithstanding many previous studies on them. Previous work has presented different morphological segmentation because of Korean’s agglutinative characteristics, implying that Korean words may contain a different segmentation sequence of morphemes. We focus on functional morphemes in Korean categorial grammars, which have been explored in different ways by previous work. We present detailed analyses for postpositions and verbal endings in categorial grammars, insisting that the functional morphemes in Korean should be treated as part of a word, with the result that their categories do not require to be assigned individually in a syntactic level, and also that it would be more efficient to assign the syntactic categories on the fully inflected lexical word derived by the lexical rule of the morphological processes in the lexicon.
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Korean speech styles and Finnish terms of address from the perspective of KFL learners
Author(s): Jeong-Young Kimpp.: 31–58 (28)More LessAbstractKorean speech styles (hapsyo-chey and hayyo-chey in particular) are compared with Finnish terms of address from the perspective of KFL learners, focusing on three variables, namely “power”, “distance”, and “imposition” (Brown and Levinson, 1987). The comparison is based on Peterson (2010), which the current study replicates. The data were collected during a Discourse Completion Task: seventy-eight native speakers of Korean were provided with seven scenarios depicting everyday situations. The results underpin the common belief that hayyo-chey is the most common speech style in Korean society. On the pedagogical level, therefore, it should be considered unmarked, meaning that no explication such as “informal polite” is required. However, hapsyo-chey should be introduced as a speech style that may be mixed with hayyo-chey, but also as the norm exclusively used in some restricted formal and writing contexts. Other speech styles may be explained in a similar manner in the KFL classroom.
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“What’s your name?”
Author(s): Yujong Parkpp.: 59–87 (29)More LessAbstractThis study investigates the role of identification and frame mismatch in Korean telephone call openings using conversation analysis on a series of problematic telephone calls made to the emergency center from a Korean governor (Moon-Soo, Kim) in 2011. Close examination of the problematic interaction indicates how delivering emergency care as a public service may evolve into a dispute in the Korean cultural context of kwandungsengmyeng (“identifying oneself by official status”). A mismatch between frames (Tracy, 1997) can be identified when the governor asks for the name of the answerer instead of presenting the reason for the call. Comparable examples from Korean conversational telephone calls are noted in which the answerer provides their name in the opening moments of the interaction, thereby depicting a strong expectation for identification and recognition in Korean openings. This paper argues that the governor’s actions can be explained by a mismatch between the public and private frames in relation to identification practices. The study findings may highlight the important role that identification and recognition plays in Korean culture and suggest methods through which future problematic emergency calls can be prevented.
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Perception and production mismatch in truncated past tense verbs in Korean
Author(s): Drew Crosby and Amanda Dalolapp.: 88–105 (18)More LessAbstractKorean is often described as neutralizing its obstruents to unreleased stops in coda position. However, a stylistic truncated form of the intimate past tense expressing avuncularity, contradicts this description by realizing a fricative word finally. Despite tokens elicited from informants lacking phonetic evidence for a word-final vowel, speakers report hearing [ɨ] word-finally in these truncated forms. The present article gives an optimality theoretic (OT) account (McCarthy & Prince 1995) of this phenomenon by utilizing Benua’s (1995) base-truncated form (BT) constraints to explain the production of the form and Boersma & Hamann’s (2008) cue constraints to explain the mismatch between the production and perception in parallel to the treatment of loanwords. This suggests that output-output constraints and perceptual cue constraints may interact to create differences in phonological form between production and perception, even within native phonologies, and lends further support for the need for separate production and perception phonologies (Boersma 1999).
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