The Alternative Mechanisms for the Limit of Rule Application in Korean Phonology

In Korean phonology, once the stem final consonant deletion rule is applied, no other obligatory rules can be applied. For example, when verb stem /hulth-/ hackle is combined with interrogative ending /-ni/ is it?, consonant cluster simplification rule must be applied and consequently /hul ni/ is derived. After this application, the l deletion rule, which is obligatorily applied in front of initial n, never be applied. Firstly, I define this case as the limit of rule application. In substitute for l deletion rule, the lateralization rule is applied, and so the derived realization comes as [ u i](←/hulli/). Secondly, I define this case as the alternative mechanism for the limit of rule application. The limit of rule application occurs when rule application affects the lexical meaning of stem or the grammatical meaning of ending if applied, and then the alternative mechanisms works as not applying any rules or applying rules unexpected. This alternative mechanisms help the listener to recognize the difference between underlying representation and surface representation, and to assume the real underlying representation without changing any meaning of stems and endings

중국연변지역의 한국어 연구

이 연구는 두만강 북쪽에 위치하는 중국 연변지역에서 사용되는 한국어 (앞으로 이 지역어라 칭한다)에 대한 공시적 연구를 목적으로 한다. 이 연구에서 대상이 되는 지역은 중국 길림성, 연변조선족자치주, 용정시, 용정진과 도문시, 도문진 그리고 훈춘시, 훈춘진이다. 연변조선족자치주, 특히 연길시, 용정시, 도문시, 훈춘시 등은 주민의 90% 이상이 함경도 출신, 그 중에서도 함경북도 북부지역의 출신이라는 점을 고려하면, 이 지역어는 연변의 다른 지역어와 대체로 일치한다. 따라서 이 지역어의 연구는 연변지역어의 연구라고 해도 크게 어긋나지 않을 것이다

North Korean Dialect Research

The purpose of dialect research in North Korea changed drastically around the mid-1960s. Up until that time, such research was generally carried out following Marx-Leninist linguistic principles, in order to discover the history and development of the Korean language and the linguistic laws that affected this development, to standardize the language, and to do geographical linguistic research through the systematic research of individual dialects. Starting in the late 1960s, however, dialect research broke with previous trends and began to be performed for the purpose of developing and promulgating the “Cultured Language" and of improving society’s use of language in general

North Korean Phonological Research

Post-1945 North Korean phonological research can be divided into three periods. Period 1 (1945-1959) dealt chiefly with the phonological system and phenomena of Old and Middle Korean, Period Ⅱ (1960-1965) with that of Modern Korean, and Period Ⅲ (1986-present) with that of Middle and Modern Korean. The discussion of North Korean phonological system, which is the most studied single topic, shows a marked progression in background linguistic theory. lnitial research was carried out from the viewpoint of structural linguistics, focussing on articulatory phonetic qualities and taking the phoneme as the smallest unit; later research took the stance of structural linguistics, focussing on accoustical phonetic qualities and analyzing phonemes as bundles of distinctive features. One work (Han Young-Soon, 1964b), goes on to show generative phonetics involving distinctive features. Unfortunately, there is no concensus of opinion in the above viewpoints on the phonological system, and the distinctive features proposed serve only to differentiate the various phonemes that make up the system, and are not useful for explaining phonological phenomen