著者

朴 永梅

出版者

京都大学大学院文学研究科言語学研究室

雑誌

京都大学言語学研究 (ISSN:13497804)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.20, pp.171-193, 2001-12-24

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Approximately a million Koreans reside in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Yanbian, China. Based primarily on the observation made in the capital city Yanji (of Yanbian), I attempt to describe the local Korean accent system synchronically, and clarify the following points at issue in this paper. 1. Yanbian Korean is a pitch-accent language. The total number of phonological accent patterns for any noun of n syllables is equal to n+1, but the number of phonetic pitch patterns for any noun of n syllables is equal to n, for phonologically unaccented pattern ○ ...○○ and rightmost accented pattern ○...○○ are realized as the same phonetic pitch pattern as L...LH. 2. The rightmost accented pattern ○...○○ is the default one in Yanbian Korean. 3. The accent of the compound noun is predominated by the rightmost elements. That is to say, only the accent of rightmost element is maintained, while those of all the others are deleted. 4. What is possible to say is that the accents of simple word and compound noun are predominated by the same accent law.