Despite only a fraction of all organisms having evolved extravagant secondary sexual characters, these have played an important conceptual, theoretical and empirical role in evolutionary biology (Darwin, 1871; Cronin, 1991; Andersson, 1994). Secondary sexual characters such as the antlers of deer and the train of the blue peacock Pavo cristatus are presumed to have arisen and be maintained as a...

This study investigates how Seoul Korean-speaking children and adults use pitchand duration-related phonetic cues to mark focus. It was found that to distinguish focus from non-focus, the adults used both the pitchand duration-related cues, but the children used only the duration-related cues to distinguish focus from post-focus. Further, neither the adults nor the children distinguish narrow f...

This paper deals with an aspectual classification of Korean and Japanese verbs based on Vendler (1967). Both of Korean and Japanese verbs are classified into 12 distinctive aspectual categories by their restrictions on time adverbials, progressive tenses and logical entailments. A well-established aspectual verb classes provide us not only with a better understanding of both languages, but also...

This study investigates recent changes in Korean intonation where an AP-initial syllable [il] is produced as a High tone by some speakers, introducing an exception to the intonational model of Korean. Data from 51 Seoul speakers and 26 Chonnam speakers show that this phenomenon, found most often when [il] means ‘one’, is employed mostly by Seoul speakers in their early 40s and younger. We propo...