An Account of the Asymmetry in Old English Breaking

• 영문명: An Account of the Asymmetry in Old English Breaking
• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: Young-Kook Kwon
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』영어학연구 제22호, 133~149쪽, 전체 17쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2006.12.01

영문 초록

  Old English Breaking presents a few intriguing asymmetric patterns, depending on the nature of the front vowels and the conditioning consonants that follow. One of them is that Old English /x/triggers breaking in isolation, whereas Old English /r, l/ require a following consonant in order to trigger breaking. Though recognized, this specific asymmetry has not been formally accounted for in previous works. We show that a modified constriction-based theory of representation (Clements & Hume 1995), which incorporates the temporal relation and the multi-layered structure for articulatorily complex segments such as /x, r, l/, provides an analysis that can predict the asymmetric pattern at hand in Old English Breaking. We also present a possible optimality-theoretic account of the asymmetry, employing phonetically-driven constraints and faithfulness constraints.

목차

1. Introduction
2. The Nature of the Environment for OE Breaking
3. A Representational Account of OE Breaking and its Asymmetry
4. An Optimality-theoretic Account of OE Breaking and the Asymmetry
5. Summary
References

키워드

Old English Breaking complex segments asymmetry liquids optimality theory