The Accent System and Phrasal Pitch Features in Middle Korean -Compared with the Accent Systems of Modern Gyeongsang Dialects -

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The Daegu dialect in Modern Korean has a pitch accent system 1. In this dialect, allaccent patterns can be predicted by the presence or absence of an accent kernel as well as itsposition. In Middle Korean texts, although the tone of each syllable is marked, only thelow-beginning pitch is distinctive. It is a system with a raising kernel that causes the pitch tochange on the pitch from low to high. If there are sequences of low pitch, the last one shouldbe distinctive. After the accent kernel the pitch patterns are governed by phrasal prosodicfeatures. This means that the accent patterns of Middle Korean could be predicted by indicatingwhether the word has an accent kernel and, if it does, where it has the kernel.This paper shows, furthermore, that there is an accentual correspondence between MiddleKorean and the Daegu dialect of Modern Korean. What this means is that if we know the accentpattern of a word in the former system,we can predict the accent pattern of the word in the lattersystem, and vice versa.