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Consonantal Changes in the Inventory of English: A Constraint-Based Analysis

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dc.contributor.authorMoon, An-Nah-
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-07T07:48:09Z-
dc.date.available2014-01-07T07:48:09Z-
dc.date.issued2002-
dc.identifier.citation어학연구, Vol.38 No.3, pp. 801-825ko_KR
dc.identifier.issn0254-4474-
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10371/86183-
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this study is to analyze the inventories of phonemic consonants in the three periods of English under the model of dispersion theory (Flemming, 1995) formalized in terms of Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky, 1993) and to show how a constraint-based approach can account for inventory structure and its historical change in a more comprehensive and coherent way. In this study, I focus on the inventory of English fricatives and nasals because historical change had occurred only to them. I attempt to explore why the inventories of the three periods were as they were and to find a pattern which dominates historical change. As predicted by Flemming's dispersion theory, the inventory structure of English is also described mainly in terms of three kinds of constraints, "Maintain contrasts," "Mindist" and "LAZY." It is shown in this study that a balance among them, which is different depending on the periods of history, shapes the inventory structure of each period. In this analysis, it is also clearly noted that English consonants had moved toward the inventory structure which prefers multiple contrasts over a large auditory distance and/or effort minimization.ko_KR
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by an INHA UNIVERSITY Research Grant. (INHA-21354)ko_KR
dc.language.isoenko_KR
dc.publisher서울대학교 언어교육원ko_KR
dc.subjectEnglish consonantsko_KR
dc.subjectinventory structureko_KR
dc.subjecthistorical changes dispersion theoryko_KR
dc.subjectoptimality theoryko_KR
dc.subjectconstraintsko_KR
dc.titleConsonantal Changes in the Inventory of English: A Constraint-Based Analysisko_KR
dc.typeSNU Journalko_KR
dc.citation.journaltitle어학연구-
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