K eyw o rds: pitch-accent, South Kyungsang Korean, suffixation 1. South Gyeongsang pitch accent: 사 실 의 / 사 실 에 / 사 실 까 지. Syllables in red take high pitch. Korean is also notable for its processes of consonant cluster reduction, which give rise to a striking difference between underlying and surface forms in many environments. In tro du ctio n R esearch ers on S ou th K yun gsan g K orean (S K ) h ave been divided as to w h eth er S K is a ton e langu age or a pitch -accen t lan gu age. This is different from standard English, which is a stress-timed language and has stress applied differently to certain syllables. Michael Kenstowicz. Non-minimal vowel-initial suffixes. 23.38; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Request full-text PDF. So, for any normally spoken Korean sentence, there’s no syllable that’s pronounced for a longer or shorter amount of time. This word always takes high pitch only on the second syllable, and also heightens the subsequent suffixed syllable. April 2017; Authors: Chiyuki Ito. 사실 • (sasil) (hanja 事實) fact, reality, truth; Adverb . This means that each syllable is spoken with the same amount of stress and there are no strong shifts in tone or pitch. The example used in this page is 다〮 (-tá, declarative suffix). A Sino-Korean morpheme il is lexically ambiguous, referring to (1) "one" and (2) "day." The precise pitch of each Middle Korean verb class is based on the morphophonology of the suffix they are followed by. Pitch accent classes . In tonal languages -- such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Thai, Vietnamese, etc.--, the way the voice goes up and down during the production of a vowel is encoded in the word. In Seoul Korean, pitch does not distinguish words, and only phrase-level tones are used (see Jun (1998, 2005) for details on the Seoul Korean prosodic system). standard language in Korea. Finally, many dialects of Korean have lexical pitch accent. Korean is thus a rare example of an intensively studied, major world language undergoing the process of tonogenesis. For the purposes of verbal pitch, there are three types of suffixes: Consonant-initial suffixes. Noun . 사실 • (sasil) in fact, actually In contrast, NKK is a lexical pitch accent language just like Tokyo Japanese, and a certain syllable in a word is lexically marked to be prominent in pitch. Pitch Accent in Korean.