How Did Korean Get -l for Middle Chinese Words Ending in - t?
@article{Martin1997HowDK, title={How Did Korean Get -l for Middle Chinese Words Ending in - t?}, author={S. Martin}, journal={Journal of East Asian Linguistics}, year={1997}, volume={6}, pages={263-271} }
The Sino-Korean versions of the final labial and velar finalsof the Middle Chinese "entering" tone are -p and -k, but theapical -t of Middle Chinese is borrowed as -l and wasprescriptively treated as -LQ by the 15th-century Koreanorthographers. This is best explained by assuming that a liquidarticulation was used in the northern Chinese dialect thatKoreans used as a model. That articulation was probably a flap[r], and it was part of the general erosion of the final stopsthat led to their… Expand
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