영어의 장/단모음화 현상에 대하여

Abstract

Generative Phonology assumes that allomorphs are derived from a unique morpheme through a different set of phonological ru1es depending on the environment the morpheme occurs in. This means that we can obtain a simpler mental lexicon when we exclude all the allomorphs from the lexicon except only one basic form. On the basis of this assumption, this thesis searches for the optimal forms of rules and underlying representations to account for vowel lengthening and shortening in English in a framework combining Standard Theory and Lexical Phonology.