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Once Again on Lenition in Middle Korean
- Korean Studies
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 27, 2003
- pp. 85-107
- 10.1353/ks.2005.0016
- Article
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The present article attempts a revision of the traditional lenition theory for the Middle Korean language by presenting internal and typological evidence in favor of interpreting non-leniting Middle Korean consonants as originating from original *nC (sometimes possibly *lC) clusters and providing further support for the fact that leniting consonants were just plain voiceless obstruents.