음운 현상의 동기적 비일관성과 음운 이론 (Inconsistency in Phonological Phenomena)

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초록

This paper investigates inconsistency in phonology and aims to find anappropriate model to incorporate it into linguistic theory. Phonological theorieshave been focusing on the phenomena that show consistent results throughvarious types of observations and experiments. These results have served asthe basis of ‘one’ grammar, which is represented as ‘one’ ranking for thephonology of a language. However, recent studies show that a language canproduce different results, depending on whether the stimuli are real or noncewords or whether the stimuli are roots or inflected words. This paper presentsthree cases; vowel harmony in Korean verbal conjugation, accent patterns inNorth Gyeongsang Korean, and Segmental OCP in languages. In the first twocases, native speakers show different behaviors with real words from withnonce words. In the last case, the patterns found in the lexicon have littleimpact on the phonological processes in the languages. These cases are notexplained by one grammar or one ranking of constraints. I argue that weshould separate two processes: lexicon and phonology. When it comes to realwords, speakers depend on the stored tokens rather than the phonologicalprocess related to the words, while they should rely only on the phonologyfor the processing of nonce words. The separation of the two processes canexplain not only the inconsistency in synchronic data, but diachronic changesby means of the interaction of the two processes.

영어초록

This paper investigates inconsistency in phonology and aims to find anappropriate model to incorporate it into linguistic theory. Phonological theorieshave been focusing on the phenomena that show consistent results throughvarious types of observations and experiments. These results have served asthe basis of ‘one’ grammar, which is represented as ‘one’ ranking for thephonology of a language. However, recent studies show that a language canproduce different results, depending on whether the stimuli are real or noncewords or whether the stimuli are roots or inflected words. This paper presentsthree cases; vowel harmony in Korean verbal conjugation, accent patterns inNorth Gyeongsang Korean, and Segmental OCP in languages. In the first twocases, native speakers show different behaviors with real words from withnonce words. In the last case, the patterns found in the lexicon have littleimpact on the phonological processes in the languages. These cases are notexplained by one grammar or one ranking of constraints. I argue that weshould separate two processes: lexicon and phonology. When it comes to realwords, speakers depend on the stored tokens rather than the phonologicalprocess related to the words, while they should rely only on the phonologyfor the processing of nonce words. The separation of the two processes canexplain not only the inconsistency in synchronic data, but diachronic changesby means of the interaction of the two processes.

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