The Front Rounded Glide in Mandarin Mid Vowel Assimilation

官話方言中母音對前圓唇介音的同化

林燕慧(Yen-Hwei Lin)

《聲韻論叢》 11期特刊 (2002/10) Pp. 29-48

https://doi.org/10.29753/CP.200210.0003

摘要

標準官話前圓唇介音之後的中母音是個沒有圓唇的前音[e]，在其他的官話方言，這個母音可能發音爲[ə]、[o]、[ø]。這篇文章採用優選理論分析官話方言中母音對前圓唇介音的同化，發現絕大部分的官話方言在前圓唇介音之後不用圓唇母音。這個現象表示前圓唇音基本上是個前音。

關鍵字

同化 ； 官話方言 ； 優選理論

並列摘要

In Standard Mandarin, a mid vowel agrees in [back] and [round] features with an adjacent glide but the [+round] feature of the front rounded glide [ч] fails to be realized on the mid vowel; /yə/→[чe] (superscript *)[чø] 'moon'. In other Mandarin dialects, this mid vowel may surface as [ə], [o] or [ø]. This paper examines how the front rounded glide behaves with respect to mid vowel assimilation across Mandarin dialects, accounts for dialectal variation by different rankings of harmony and markedness constraints within the framework of Optimality Theory, and shows how Mandarin dialects choose different strategies to avoid the marked [ø] vowel. The fact that the assimilated form [чe] is more common than [чo] and [чø] is suggested to follow from the marked status of [+round] on a [-back] segment and the nature of the front rounded glide as primarily a front segment despite its apparent [+round] feature.

並列關鍵字

assimilation ； Mandarin ； glides ； Optimality Theory