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Phonological Education about the ‘ㆁ’(/ɴ/)-epenthesis

Park Jong-hee 1

1군산대

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ABSTRACT

A certain segment was often inserted in order to increase the easiness of articulation and the preservation of morphemes. In MK, the uvular ‘ㆁ’(/ɴ/) was used as an epenthesis because uvular nasal did not damage the distinctness of the surrouding segments. Unlike the other consonants, the weakest /ɴ/ was adequate to insert. Even if the inserted /ɴ/ occurred the nasalization of segments in this neighborhood, it did not disrupt the original meanings of morphemes because the oral vowel was contrastively not distinguished from the nasal vowel in the MK vowel system. Therefore the uvular ‘ㆁ’(/ɴ/) could be inserted as an epenthesis only before rising of the place of articulation diachronically from the uvular to the soft palate.

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