A Study on vowel systems: the cases of Korean, English, Japanese and Chinese

Heo Yong

doi:10.21049/ccs.2011.25..723

Cross-Cultural Studies

2011, 25(), pp.723-741
DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2011.25..723
Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
Research Area : Literature

Heo Yong ¹

¹한국외국어대학교

ABSTRACT

The principle of vowel dispersion claims that vowels are dispersed in the available phonetic space. However, SPAP and UPSID show that deviations from the patterns predicted by this principle are relatively infrequent of, for the most part, confined to matters of small scale, falling into a few definable classes. In this paper, we will discuss the vowel systems of 4 languages, Korean, English,Japanese, and Chinese, and will argue that vowels tend toward a balanced and wide dispersion in the available phonetic space by the complementary vowels.
KEYWORDS

vowel dispersion, vowel system, peripheral vowels, interior vowel, defective system, vowel, complementary
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