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Metrical weight consistency in Korean partial reduplication*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2008

Jongho Jun
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles

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Korean possesses a rich onomatopoeic and mimetic vocabulary that may be augmented by partial reduplication and/or suffixation. This augmented category, which is referred to as partial extension in Jun (1993), is semantically characterised by a lengthening, or temporal extension of the base form:

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