한국어의 세계화를 위한 조합형코드의 음운변동 프로토콜

Abstract

The recent Korean Wave has amplified foreigners' preference for Korea and interest in Korean language in economy, tourism, and trade. It has also increased foreign students in the educational aspect and foreign workers dreaming of Korean dream in the economic aspect every year. In the course, the dissemination of Korean language has been expanded and finally an occupation of ‘a Korean teacher’ has been limelighted. Korean teachers’ activity has been increased abroad. After receiving systematic education, they go abroad and help disseminate Korean language. It plays the role of locomotive in enhancing the status of Korea. Once UN suggested a plan to use Korean language to express minority races' languages, as it has a scientific structure that produces various sounds with its 24 phonemes. It warrants the need to standardize Korean pronunciation and makes us find out the methods to enhance the meaning and value of Korean language. While Korean language has the advantage of expressing all sounds human beings make, it has a difficult problem of producing morphological changes different from the original spelling by the meaning of etymology or the initial sound rule when each syllable meets in a certain form of a word. This phenomenon, called phonological process, has been long studied in the academic world and there is a consensus to need standardization by a regular rule with the globalization of Hangul. Therefore, this researcher considers that diversified approaches and efforts are necessary for above research activity. Also, this researcher intends to contribute to developing a program to globalize Korean by applying a mathematical formula as a part of helping regularity. For example, when one reads a string of ‘같아요(gat-a-yo)’, he should select its pronunciation from ‘가타요(ga-ta-yo)’ or ‘갇타요(gat-ta-yo)’, which is very indistinct. A string of ‘첫아들(cheot-a-deul)’ should not be read as ‘처사들(cheo-sa-deul)’ according to the liaison. The problem is to suggest methods to obtain such information most easily and study by oneself. In this sense, this researcher built up the Hangul combination table of phonological process for the standardized program of phonological process for foreigners to pronounce Korean correctly. The advantage of the combination code of Hangul is to express all letter combination represented in Hangul. Thus this study suggested a phonological process protocol by the combination table of phonological process and considered that programing conditions were met to pronounce excellent Hangul according to a standardized rule. The methods to build up a protocol by the combination table of phonological process were as follows. When Hangul strings connected based on phonological process rules in previous studies are inputted into a computer, they are automatically separated into initials, medials, and finals and phonemes are changed according to the phonological process rule by the phonological process table and then recombined. Recombined unicode values are reexpressed in Hangul strings.