The purpose of this paper is to provide an essential and clear formalization of palatalization and spirantization in English within the framework of Optimality Theory (henceforth OT; Prince and Smolensky 1993, McCarthy and Prince 1995). English requires a supplemental process called j-deletion after palatalization. Although the process has been regarded as fusion (or coalescence) in many works, setting up j-deletion seemed to be inevitable under the rule based and even OT framework. This would be because j-deletion has been strongly believed to raise phonological opacity inducing counter- feeding and counter-bleeding effect. This paper shows that palatalization in English has no opaque process. To deal with the processes as a kind of fusion, I employ the autosegmental view which regards features as autonomous entities and segmental change is a result of the interaction of features. In addition, I assume that vowel /i/ and glide /j/ are identical in the input, following the recent claim that syllabification does not need to be specified in the lexicon. Finally, palatalization and spirantization can successfully be accounted for without the process like j-deletion and derivational (or serial) approaches.
목차
I. Introduction II. Data Survey III. Previous Approach : Derivation 1. Derivational Approach 2. Opacity Problem IV. Proposal : A Parallel Approach 1. Segmental representation 2. Analysis : constraints and ranking V. Conclusion Works Cited Abstract
한국중앙영어영문학회 [The Jungang English Language And Literature Association Of Korea]
설립연도
1968
분야
인문학>영어와문학
소개
본 학회는 영미어문학의 학술연구와 이에 부합하는 아래의 사업을 기획 수행하며,
또한 회원 상호간의 친목을 도모함을 목적으로 한다.
1. 학회지 발간
2. 연구 발표회, 강연회, 공동연구
3. 영미어문학 관련 도서출판
4. 영미어문학 관계 도서 및 자료의 모집 및 비치
5. 기타 본회의 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]