Title: An Optimality-Theoretic Approach to Reduplication in Korean Ideophones *
Abstract: This paper examines the reduplication behavior observed in Korean ideophones within the framework of Optimality Theory. We argue that the various effects of reduplication, which can be largely classified into two, segmental and templatic variation, are instances of the emergence of the unmarked (TETU). This means that the more unmarked segmental content and the more harmonious syllable template emerge only in the reduplicant through the constraint ranking FAlTIHO}>PllOr-;O-C}> IDEl':T-BR (McCarthy and Prince 1995). To resolve the cases which seem to be quite asymmetric in terms of *! * !
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
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