“K” type initial guttural sounds in the South Kyungsang dialect of Korean language

This paper deals with “k” type guttural consonants of the South Kyungsans Korean using experimental data. To write this paper a complex methodology, including linguistic and instrumental techniques, was used. Guttural consonants are researched by several parameters such as lenth, aspiration, occlusivenes - fricativeness, explosions. According to our data, all initial allophones are voiceless. Statistical data shows that the length of the sound is not the differential cue for all phonemes. To a greater or lesser degree all allophones have aspiration. In the result of the detailed analysis transformations of aspirated and fortis initial guttural consonants were found.