방언간 ‘입성운미(入聲韻尾)’의 차이에 관한 소고 ― 메이센 방언(梅县话), 푸칭 방언(福清话), 베이징 방언(北京话)을 대상으로

Abstract

Checked tone was te part of ‘four tone system’ consisting of ‘level tone, rising tone, falling tone, and checked tone’ in Middle Chinese, and it is that the tone category having origin of checked tone in Middle Chinese. This thesis gives a brief description of checked tone in Moiyen dialect (Guangdong Province), Fuqing dialect(Fujian Province) and Beijing dialect. Further, this article tries to explain the difference in the aspect of parsing between three dialects using optimality theory. According to hierarchy between ten constraints, codas of checked tone in Middle Chinese has different aspects of parsing between each dialect in Modern Chinese. First, Checked tone in Moiyen and Fuqing dialect has difference in the place of articulation, for faithful constraints related with articulatory place dominate markedness constraints. Second, Consonant Coda Checked tone has not parsed in Beijing dialect, this is the different point from other two dialects. Some of Checked tone changed into Vowel Coda because of the hierarchy related with ‘consonant’ feature, but most of them have disappeared completely, because the markedness constraint which restrict coda has higher level than faithfulness constraint. Third, there is no insertion of segmental sound in coda, for faithfulness constraint dominate markedness constraint restricting mono-coda. And because faithfulness constraint on the manner of articulation has domination over markedness constraint, there is no nasalization or lateralization in the coda of checked tone.