Re: Mutations in General

On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 02:07 , Adrian Morgan wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote, quoting Andreas Johansson:
>
>>> This "reinforced" vs "lax" contrast sounds alot like a fortis vs
>>> lenis distinction, does it not?
>>
>> I just looked up the terms today. Yes, it does. I'm at a loss as to
>> why it isn't described that way in the literature.
>
> Googling for "Korean fortis lenis" produces 69 hits, including
> <http://epsilon3.georgetown.edu/~kimhk/cgi-bin/kaeps/kor_phon.htm>
Okay, paraphrase: not being previously familiar with the term, I didn't
Google for it, and it didn't appear in any of the sources I had ready to
hand.  :-]

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