Vowel harmony redux: Correct sounds, English loan words, and the sociocultural life of a phonological structure in Korean

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 358-381

  Harkness, Nicholas ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Denotational iconism; Han'g l; Korean; Language ideology; Loan words; Vowel harmony

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862678141     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2012.00536.x     Document Type: Article

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