열 짱라고요? (열 + 장 = 열 짱?)

Question

I was watching a drama and the character who was buying lottery tickets said:

열 장이요

but it sounded to my ears like

/열 짱이요/.

I have never seen fortis (i.e. tensing) happen this way and would like to know what rule is being applied here.

Thanks

Answer 1

According to the 표준어 규정의 조항 (roughly translated as the Provisions of the Rules of the Standard Language) Volume 2, Chapter 5, Section 26, it says the following:

‘ㄹ’ 받침 뒤에 연결되는 ‘ㄷ, ㅅ, ㅈ’은 된소리로 발음한다

That is to say, should the character begin with a ㅈ but is after a character whose bottom consonant is a ㄹ, then ㅈ becomes a ㅉ which is a 된소리. 된소리 is any of the following 5:

ㄲ, ㄸ, ㅃ, ㅆ, ㅉ

Another useful rule in the same chapter but in Section 23 states the following:

받침 ‘ㄱ(ㄲ, ㅋ, ㄳ, ㄺ), ㄷ(ㅅ, ㅆ, ㅈ, ㅊ, ㅌ), ㅂ(ㅍ, ㄼ, ㄿ, ㅄ)’ 뒤에 연결되는 ‘ㄱ, ㄷ, ㅂ, ㅅ, ㅈ’은 된소리로 발음한다

Take these two rules into account and now the following should make sense:

한장 (장 pronounced as is)

두장 (장 pronounced as is)

세장 (장 pronounced as is)

네장 (장 pronounced as is)

다섯장 (pronounced 다섯짱)

여섯장 (pronounced 여섯짱)

일곱장 (pronounced 일곱짱)

여덟장 (pronounced 여덜짱)

아홉장 (pronounced 아홉짱)

열장 (pronounced 열짱)

몇장 (pronounced 며짱) where 몇 means "any number"