出版社：Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic
摘要：This paper attempts to present an interpretation of the phonological character of morpheme initial consonant clusters in Middle Korean (henceforth MK), dealing especially with clusters beginning with b . Noticing that monosyllabic w/e stem verbs have consonant clusters intheir initial position without exception, the author augues rule ordering between ‘stem final vowel (w/e) deletion rule’ and ‘vowel harmony rule’in verbal conjugations. The results of argument are the following: 1) A syllable containing morpheme initial consonant clusters # CC (C) V is interpreted as #CVC (C) in the phonological representation. 2) Two different phonological rules, i. e.‘stem vowel (w/e) deletion rule’ and ‘metathesis rule’, are required according to the condition whether suffixes begin with vowels or consonants, in order to generate the phonetic representations. In the diachronic aspect of morpheme initial consonant clusters, it has been postulated that #CCV is a result of sound change from #CVCV. Then it is supposed that monosyllabic w/e stem verbs in MK have had restructuring of underlying forms as follows: disyllabic w/e stem (pre-MK)→monosyllabic consonant stem with stem vowel w/e (MK)→ monosyllabic w/a stem (Mod. Kor.). Corresponding to it, phonological rules have changed as follows: a single ‘stem vowel deletion rule’(pre-MK)→co-existence of ‘stem vowel deletion rule’ and ‘metathesis rule’(MK)→complete rule loss (Mod. Kor.). Thus, co-existence of two different rules on the stage of MK shows a transitional character, in other words, a slightly unstable positionin the synchrony of MK. In the end, morpheme initial consonant clusters in MK can be regarded as a case where synchrony and diachrony interact with each other in a dynamic manner.
