Park, Seon. 2015. 한국어 /h/ 탈락에 대한 확률적 최적성이론 분석. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology. 21.1. 79-98.
This study explores phonological variation in intersonorant /h/-deletion in Korean. In Korean, /h/ is optionally deleted between two sonorants. Based on a spoken corpus, gradient phonological patterns of /h/ deletion are investigated and analyzed within a Maximum Entropy version of Optimality Theory. The corpus study confirms that the distribution of /h/-deletion is phonologically patterned. By adopting universal constraints and assigning them numerical weights according to the Maximum Entropy model, the gradient phonological effects of /h/-deletion are analyzed. The learning simulation results indicate that the learned grammar can successfully reproduce the observed frequency of /h/ deletion. (Seoul National University)
Keywords: Korean /h/-deletion, gradient phonological effect, probabilistic OT, Maximum Entropy model