• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 1994.02a
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• pp.45-53
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• 1994

음 변화 규칙을 음성규칙(A)와 음운규칙(B)와 기타(C)로 분류한다면, A.음성규칙의 발생 총계는 B.음운규칙의 발생 총계보다 2배 이상 더 많다. 여기에 가장 발생 빈도가 높은 규칙부터 순서대로 10개만 정리하면 다음과 같다. 순위 규칙부류 명칭 백분율 1 A 음절 말 유성자음의 불파화 31.84, 2 A 유성음화 19.37 3 B 장모음화 10.00, 4 A 설측음화 9.78, 5 B 경음화 6.43, 6 B 음절말 장애음 중화 5.16, 7 A ㅅ 구개음화 3.71, 8 C 음절 조정 규칙 3.10, 9 B 단모음화 1.60, 10 A ㄴ 구개음화 1.42 별도로 진행한 총체적 연구(이상억에 의하면, 음성규칙, 즉 A가 총 6개 있는데 그 중 5규칙이 10위 내에 나타나 상위 쪽에 3번이나 포함되어 있는 점이 주목된다. 특히 규칙 1과 2의 합계는 전체 중 51.2%를 넘는다. 규칙 10위까지의 합계는 전체 중 92.4%를 차지한다. 13.장모음화(10%)는 12.단모음화(1.6%)보다 훨씬 높은 출현빈도를 보인다. 또 각종 구개음화 규칙의 순위는 ㅅ(7위), ㄴ(10위), ㄹ(17위), ㄷ(26위) 구개음화로 분포되어 있음이 밝혀졌다. 한편 삭제규칙(음운탈락 및 단순화) 계열이 14, 15, 19, 21, 25, 28위에 널리 나열되어 있는 데 반해, 삽입규칙은 23위에 ㄴ삽입 하나가 보일 뿐이다.

• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.137-154
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• 2005

The purpose of this paper is to analyze vowel lengthening triggered by resyllabification. In general, short vowels become long when a following consonant is deleted, as shown in stehli 'steel' > st$\bar{e}$li and *fimf 'five' > five. We can account for the phenomenon in a straightforward way within the framework of CV phonology (Clements & Keyser, 1983) : deletion of a coda consonant C slot and then the preceding vowel spreads onto it, resulting in a long vowel. The analysis, however, cannot hold for words like ealhes 'temple', where deletion of an onset segment eventually triggers vowel lengthening in the preceding syllable. In order to account for this, I propose resyllabification. That is, ealhes first becomes eales by /h/-deletion. Next, the /l/ in coda is resyllabified as the onset of the following syllable, leaving its C slot unoccupied. Finally, the vowel spreads onto the empty slot, producing a long vowel.

• Journal of English Language & Literature
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• v.55 no.4
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• pp.719-744
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• 2009

This paper aims to reexamine Homorganic Cluster Lengthening in Late Old English whereby OE short vowels became lengthened before specific consonant clusters such as /-ld, -nd, -mb, -rd, -rð, -ng, -rz/. As for the motivation for this apparently odd-looking sound change, I propose that it was the result of phonologization of the phonetic lengthening of syllables containing resonants homorganic with a following voiced obstruent. Adopting Luick's (1898) view of "resonant+voiced homorganic obstruent" phonologically as a single coda, I show that Homorganic Cluster Lengthening is in fact a natural sound change that can be explained with the proper postulation of a few quantity-related universal constraints within the framework of the Optimality Theory. The fact that the constraints and their ranking as posited in this paper can also account for Pre-Cluster Shortening points to the validity of my approach in the analysis of other quantity changes in Middle English.