'자음-ㅎ' 連鎖에서의 音變化

Abstract

On the Sound Changes of 'Consonant-h' Sequences This study aims to clarify the changing patterns of the 'consonant-h' sequences in Korean(Central dialect) and to compare these patterns with those of two dialects(North-western dialect and South-western dialect). The main points of this study can be summarized as follows. In one morpheme, the changing patterns at three dialects are the same : 'h' was deleted in the 'sonorant-h' sequences and 'obstruent-h' sequences changed into aspirates. In a morpheme boundary, the changing patterns at three dialects are different. Yet difference in the 'obstruent-h' sequences is larger than in the 'sonorant-h' sequences : Phonologically the 'sonorant-h' sequences are maintained at Central & North-western dialect, but 'h' was delected at South-western dialect. And 'obstruent-h' sequences, only at Central dialect, changed into aspirates. In this respect, Central dialect is distinguished considerably from the rest of dialects. From the dialectological points of view, 'consonant-h' sequences at three dialects can be said to change not by means of diffusion but separately.