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joel.boyd@wmich.edu wrote:

> With regard to the /r/ and /l/ situation, could it be that they are
> written as one symbol in Hangul because they are actually one phoneme in
> Korean?  You did seem to indicate that the change was determined by the
>environment.  This would make the two phones allophones of each other and
>yet one phoneme.

I had written that, depending on what phonemems followed this particular

Korean phoneme, it is pronounced as /r/ or /l/.I am certainly no expert
on phonetics, let alone Korean phonetics. I cannot really answer this
and so I'm posting it to TESL-L to get some feedback. It seems to me
that there are, in fact two separate phonemes but represented by one
symbol in Hangul and the Korean speaker knows which one to say because
the context will demonstrate it. I have also noticed the vowel which is
written as | can be pronounced as either /i:/ or /e/. Are these also
allophones or separate phonemes.

All help gratefully received and I'm sure my knowledge of this may help
to explain some of our English allophones to my Korean students in terms

they can relate to.

Cheers,
John Grummitt
<grummitts@clara.net>

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