结构所引起的辅音音变: 论三个客家话软腭音龈腭化演变的不平衡

Translated title of the contribution: Structurally-Triggered Consonant Shift

严修鸿, 黄良喜

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    Abstract

    粤东北部三县见组字在细音条件下只有/KiAC/类音节变音为龈腭音: *[k]、*[kʰ]、*[ŋ]分别变成[ȶ]、[ȶh]、[ȵ];音变后介音也流失了。/KiC/类音节不变。这个观察有别于前人的记述,但可以通过语图分析得到验证。借助音节建构的分析,文章说明不平衡的演变来自见组细音的两组音节内部结构的不同:/KiAC/类音节中K,与[i]同属音首,所以糅合为龈腭辅音;而/KiC/类音节中,[i]却作为韵核,与音首关系疏远,所以未能糅合。

    Across 3 Hakka dialects, velars (*k, *kh, ŋ) shift to become alveolo-palatals (ȶ, ȶh, ȵ respectively) when followed by the medial glide [i], but such shifts are unattested when [i] is the syllable nucleus. The paper argues that this asymmetrical shift is triggered by structural affinity which is a consequence of standard syllabification algorithm. Thus, theories of generative phonology shed light on historical shifts. The *velar→alveolo-palatal shift can easily be understood from the perspective of feature geometry: the high, front position of [i] palatalizes and fronts the velars. Given the structural affinity account, this is a natural process of anticipatory assimilation.
    Translated title of the contributionStructurally-Triggered Consonant Shift
    Original languageChinese (Simplified)
    Pages (from-to)449-458
    Number of pages10
    Journal语言科学
    Volume7
    Issue number5
    Publication statusPublished - Sept 2008

    User-Defined Keywords

    • 客家话
    • 辅音音变
    • 见组细音
    • 音节建构
    • 软腭音
    • 龈腭化
    • Hakka dialect
    • consonant shift
    • front-open vowels in jian group
    • syllabification algorithm
    • velar
    • Palatalization

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