Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the functional load of Korean. To accomplish this research purpose, the study computes the functional loads of phoneme pairs using the change in system entropy from the Korean Corpus of Spontaneous Speech and compares it with the functional load quantified based on the dictionary corpus. The data analysis show that the order of functional loads of the onsets is ‘/ㄱ/-/ㅈ/, /ㄱ/-/ㄴ/, /ㄱ/-/ㅁ/, … ’, that of the nucleus is ‘/ㅓ/-/ㅡ/, /ㅏ/-/ㅓ/, /ㅗ/-/ㅜ/, …’, and that of the coda is ‘/ㄴ/-/ㅇ/, /ㄴ/-/ㅁ/, /ㄴ/-/ㄹ/, …’. The similarities and differences in the functional loads of the two types of corpora are also discussed. The results of this study reveal the basic and important knowledge of the characteristics of the phonology of spoken Korean.
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