wk6_Vowel_KorVarieties

English vowels

• 
• “Who would know aught of art, must learn, act, then take his ease”
• 
• 

Tense vs. lax vowels in English

• 
• Distributional restrictions for lax vowels
• Tense vowels (/i eɪ u oʊ/) can occur in both open syllables (CV) and closed syllables (CVC) (C: consonant, V: vowel)
• CVC: ‘beat’ (b[i]t), ‘bate’ (b[eɪ]t), ‘boot’ (b[u]t), ‘boat’ (b[oʊ]t) …
• CV: ‘bee’ (b[i]), ‘bay’ (b[eɪ]), ‘boo’ (b[u]), ‘low’ (l[oʊ]), …
• Lax vowels (/ɪ ɛ ʊ ʌ/) only in closed syllables (CVC)
• CVC: ‘bit’ (b[ɪ]t), ‘bet’ (b[ɛ]t), ‘good’ (g[ʊ]d), ‘but’ (b[ʌ]t), …
• CV: *b[ɪ], *b[ɛ], *g[ʊ], *b[ʌ] …

IPA

• height-backness-tenseness-roundedness

Korean vowels

• 
• 
• Why chain shifts?
  • a language is a system, not a collection of independent sounds.
  • changes in one vowel trigger adjustments elsewhere to maintain sufficient contrast.

Other Korean varieties

• Pedagogical implication: the o-u distinction along vowel height

Chinese Korean Vowels

• Chinese Korean (CK) vowels
  • A female speaker in her 30s
  • Born and raised in Yanbian
  • Lived in Seoul for aroun 5 years
  • High pride in her native language
• 8-vowel system in CK
  • e~ɛ distinction maintained
  • o-u distinction along vowel height
  • 
• Chinese Korean vowels by speaker 2
  • A female speaker in her 20s
  • Born and raised in Liaoning
  • Moved to Seoul in her teens and
  • lived in Seoul for around 10 years
  • accommodated to SK quickly
  • Acquired SK vowels successfully, mostly..