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Tag: 꽃구름속에 IPA

  • IPA- 꽃구름 속에(Inside the Flower Clouds)

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    Flower wind, flower wind,
    blow warmly through every village

    Peach and apricot blossoms
    in a radiant glow

    like clouds, clouds of blossoms
    in a radiant glow

    Scatter pollen,
    spread the deep fragrance of flowers
    through every village

    People who suffered in cold and hunger,
    curled up and trembling all winter long

    Sorrowful stories, sorrowful stories
    Ah,forgetting them completely

    Intoxicated by the fragrance of flowers,
    let them sink inside the dreamlike flower clouds

    Let them sink
    like butterflies
















    1. Resyllabification: 속 (coda ㄱ) + 에 (vowel-initial, same word) → ㄱ shifts to become the onset of 에.
    2. Tensification (rule 23): 꽃’s coda (representative [t]) meets plain onset ㅂ → tensifies to [p͈]. The same pattern recurs on every 꽃+consonant boundary in this song (꽃가루, 꽃구름, 꽃향).
    3. Resyllabification: 불 (coda ㄹ) + 어 (vowel-initial, same word) → ㄹ shifts to become the onset of 어.
    4. Tensification (rule 23): 복사’s coda ㄱ tensifies the following plain ㅅ to [s͈], a lexicalized instance of the same obstruent-coda-plus-plain-onset pattern.
    5. Tensification (rule 23): 꽃’s coda (representative [t]) meets plain onset ㄱ → tensifies to [k͈].
    6. Aspiration: 꽃’s coda (representative [t]) meets 향’s onset ㅎ. Unlike the ㅈ-specific exception (which fully absorbs with no residue), this direction keeps 꽃’s own subscript [t] in place while 향’s onset becomes the aspirated result, written as plain [t] with the glide carried over. This exact word recurs later as 꽃향에.
    7. Aspiration: 맣’s coda ㅎ meets 게’s onset ㄱ and the two fully merge into aspirated [k], with no residual coda left behind. This differs from the ㄱ/ㄷ/ㅂ/ㅈ(+representative t)+ㅎ direction, which keeps its own subscript placeholder since a real stop closure remains; ㅎ itself has no oral closure to leave a trace of.
    8. Tensification (rule 23): 잊’s coda (representative [t]) meets plain onset ㄱ → tensifies to [k͈].
    9. Glide priority: 취 = [tʃʷi], not [tsʷi], since a glide always wins the dʒ/tʃ choice even though 추 alone would fall in the [ts] exception group.
    10. Aspiration: 득’s coda ㄱ meets 하’s onset ㅎ and merges into aspirated [k], with 득’s own subscript ɡ kept as a placeholder.