현대표준중국어 開韻尾 韻母의 형성과정 고찰

Abstract

This study considered the formation process of an open ending of Mandarin Chinese from a diachronic perspective and explored the fundamental causes of phonological change using the distinctive feature in generative phonology. Assimilation is a phonological change that leads the changes in the Chinese phonological system. The final with the open ending in Middle Chinese, there is progressive assimilation influenced by the features of preceding sound, like the Change of [i] in Syllable with dorso-prepalatal plosives(Sheshangyin), retroflex sibilant(Zhengzhiyin), and dorso-nasal fricatives(Banchiyin) in the consonant, vowel rising and Hekouhua of Nucleus in GuoShe and change of onset which is in the second division(ErdengYun). Middle Chinese had stop ending with [p], [t], [k]. These three different final ending merged into the glottal stop [ʔ], and finally, they are lost stop coda and merged into open syllable. We call this change Yinshengyunhua which is one of the notable changes in Northern Chinese. Among them, semivowel that occurred in the process of stop ending with [k] merged into open syllable coalesce with nucleus and change to the final with open ending.