This study revisits prosodic phrasing in North Kyungsang Korean (NK), focusing on intonational phrase (I-phrase). Based on the observation in Kim (1988) that a boundary low tone appears at the right edge of I-phrase, the present study shows in a constraint-based framework that I-phrasing is recursive and that the interaction of markedness and faithfulness constraints leads to a better description of I-phrasing in NK. Match Clause constraints (Selkirk 2011), faithfulness constraints, are employed to show the direct relation between surface syntactic clause edges and I-phrase edges. Even though it defies Non-Recursivity of the Strict Layer Hypothesis (Selkirk 1984, 1966), Equal Sisters constraint (Myrberg 2013), a markedness constraint, is shown to resolve the mismatch between syntactic and prosodic constituent edges by demanding the same prosodic category among prosodic sisters. Also shown here is that recursive I-phrasing is due to the ranking of Equal Sisters above Match Clause constraints. We provide one more piece of evidence for recursive prosodic phrasing by showing how I-phrases are formed in NK.

This study looks into tone patterns in address form of truncated personal names in North Kyungsang Korean (NK). Address forms of personal names usually take three patterns. One form is made of a family name followed by a given name as in Kim Myung Ja. The second form is made up of a given name followed by vocative particle –a/-ya as in Myung Ja-Ya. The third is a truncated formfromthe final syllable of a given name followed by a vocative particle as in Ja-Ya. As for the tones in NK, it is found here that the tone of a given name address formis always predictable. Regardless of the tone of a family name, the tone of a given name is repeated in a given name address formwhere a vocative particle is assumed to be L. But, things are a little different when it comes to truncated address form. The syllable type of truncated names decides the tone of address form[HH] and [HL] such that the former is for a heavy syllable and the latter for a light syllables.An exceptional [HL] tone in heavy syllables is found in truncated nameswith a nasal coda, evincing the influence of segments on tones. Another kind of exception for the [HL] tone in heavy syllableswith a nasal coda is related with the availability of truncated names as separate common nouns, where the attested tone is [HH] instead of [HL].

Kim, No-Ju. 1999. Tone under Focus in North Kyungsang Korean. Studies in Modern Grammar15. 157-168. Investigating tone in a focused prosodic phrase (P-phrase) in North Kyungsang Korean, this paper proposes two constraints that are required to make a focused word the most prominent within a P-phrase. First, a H on a focused word-final H, which is highly avoided in an unfocused P-phrase, is retained. This generalization is expressed by the constraint *Toneless Focused Word which prevents a focused word from occurring toneless. Second, tone doubling, which occurs across a word boundary in an unfocused P-phrase, is blocked in a focused P-phrase. This generalization is captured by the constraint *Align (Focus, r; H-toned, l) which requires the right edge of a focused word not to be aligned with the left edge of a H-toned word. These two constraints conspire to make a focused word the most prominent within a P-phrase.