Proceedings of the KSPS conference (대한음성학회:학술대회논문집)

The Korean Society Of Phonetic Sciences And Speech Technology (대한음성학회)
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Sociolinguistic variation of length in Seoul dialect

서울말 장단의 사회언어학적 변이에 관한 연구 - 연령별 변이를 중심으로 -

  • Kim, Seon-Cheol (Department of Bibliographical and Pedagogical Research, National Academy of Korean Language) ;
  • Kwon, Mi-Yeong (Department of Korean Linguistics, and Literature, Inha Univ.) ;
  • Hwang, Yeon-Sin (Department of Linguistics, SNU)
  • 김선철 (국립국어연구원 어문자료연구부) ;
  • 권미영 (인하대학교 국어국문학과) ;
  • 황연신 (서울대학교 언어학과)
  • Published : 2004.05.06
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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show what are the sociolinguistic variables of length loss in Seoul dialect. 350 people were inquired to pronunce 40words. Among the informants, 152 were male, and198 were female. In terms of their age, 49 were twenties, 70 were thirties, 69 were forties, 71 were fifties, and 91 were above sixties. According to our statistics, 18 words show sociolinguistic variation by age, and sex was not a variable. So we can conclude that Seoul dialect is undergoing length loss by age at least. But we need to enlarge the number of words and informants and we also need to adopt other variables.

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