연쇄당김에 의한 영어의 모음대추이 재고

• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: 이세창
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』영어학연구 제21권 2호, 21~40쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.07.31

영문 초록

Lee, Sechang. 2015. Revisiting the Great Vowel Shift as a consequence of Drag Chain. English Language and Linguistics 21.2, 21-40. The trigger of the Great Vowel Shift(GVS, henceforth) remains as one of the outstanding and theoretically important issues in the history of English. Under the assumption that language users can have intuitions about the ways in which the vowels are spatially organized in relationship to another, two interpretations have traditionally been available. The high vowels diphthongize first, leaving ‘empty slots’, and half-close vowels move up into the empty slots, which in turn entails the next shifts, and so on. Alternatively, beginning from below, each vowel pushes the next above one up. Since the high vowels have nowhere else to go, they diphthongize. The theoretical issue here is that essentially, those movements are supposed to occur context free, i.e., they occur without any phonetic motivation. In this article I propose to show that certain instability in terms of constraint conflict in the system came to trigger the whole process of the GVS. By the time the GVS began, every (long) vowel in the system came under the pressure of maximizing sonority at the expense of tonality in the sense of Particle Phonology (Shane 1984). Once the problem has been put in these terms, it will be shown that the solution is all but self-evident: a drag chain type of reaction will be set up in the vowel space.

키워드

Great Vowel Shift push chain drag chain Particle Phonology Dependency phonology aperture palatality labiality