[KS] Long vs short vowels in verb and adjective conjugations
Ross King
jrpking at interchange.ubc.ca
Fri Sep 21 02:15:00 EDT 2007
Hi Stefan:
You sort of answer your own question, but the easiest way to do it this:
vowel length is only distinctive in standard Korean in first syllables.
So once a form that otherwise has a long vowel in first-syllable position gets pushed out of that first-syllable slot, bye-bye vowel length.
Cheers,
--
Ross King
Professor of Korean, University of British Columbia
and
Dean, Korean Language Village, Concordia Language Villages
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