A phonological study of ‘X]vst+eo yo(어요)' in Chungnam Dialect
Generally, the characteristic form of the Hungnam dialect and more widely the Choongchung dialect is in the form such as "ee-ret-shoo or ju-ret-shoo," which is the dialect of /-uh yo/ ...
A phonological study of ‘X]vst+eo yo(어요)' in Chungnam Dialect
Generally, the characteristic form of the Hungnam dialect and more widely the Choongchung dialect is in the form such as "ee-ret-shoo or ju-ret-shoo," which is the dialect of /-uh yo/ à [uh yoo~yoo]. This tone of speech is closely related to the identity of Choongnam dialect. Thus, this study tries to understand the process of such dialect formations through phonological analysis. As an example, we will review what type of phonological phenomenon there are within the Choongnam dialect form of ‘X]vst+uh yo.’
Firstly, the phonological phenomena that are involved in the dialect form of ‘X]vst+uh yo’ involve vowel rising, front vowelization, and the omission of the ‘ee’ vowel. The first phonological phenomenon observed was that there was a vowel rising of ‘o > u.’ This phenomenon occurred the ‘o > u’ vowel rising due to the implementation of the ‘-yo > yu,’ which is the auxiliary of the form of respect is also seen within the district’s dialect. Historically, it was implemented within the stem morpheme (such as gae-go-ri>gae-gu-ri and mo-do>mo-du) and is also seen within inflective language (such as ga-ji-go>ga-ji-gu; neo-hi-deul-do>neu-deol-du; jip-eu-ro>ji-bi-ru).
Secondly, the ‘eo > eu’ vowel rising was involved. This ‘eo > eu’ was formed within the stem morpheme (for example ‘eops-eo>eup-sseo’ or ‘geo-ji>geu-ji’) and this particular vowel rising of ‘eo > eu’ caused the rising of the ‘eo’ within ‘-eo yo’ to an ‘eu.’ As can be seen from the implementation of ‘it-sseo-ya>it-sseu-ya’ there’s high probably of it causing such secondary rising forms.
Thirdly, we looked at the front vowelization of ‘eu>i’ along the ‘eo>eu’ vowel rising. Within the district’s dialect the ‘eu>i’ phenomenon can be observed from forms such as ‘its+eu-myeon>it-si-mun’ ; ‘meok+eoss-eo-yo(>meo-geo-sseu-yu)>meo-geo-si-yu’ ; and, ‘jip+eu-ro>ji-bi-ru.’ Also, in cases such as ‘ss+eu,’ the stem word consonant is more active. It is believed that from this it has been extended to other phonological environments.
Fourthly, the next level of forms such as ‘meok+eoss-eo-yo(>meo-geo-sseu-yu)>meo-geo-si-yu’ is ‘meo-geo-ssyu.’ Here, it is seen that the ‘i’ vowel was omitted.
Furthermore, we closely studied whether when a stem form, or a certain termination consonant followed there was more activity in the formal and phonological perspective. As a result, we found out that the dialectal implementation form of ‘-eoss-‘ and termination consonant ‘ss’ is active. Thus, the phonological phenomena that include vowel rising, front vowelization, and the omission of ‘i’ were applied to dialect forms such as ‘it-sseo-yo>i-ssyu’ and ‘jab+eoss-eo-yo>ja-beo-ssyu.’ However, in the case of ‘s,’ which is an identical local fricative, there is only a vowel rising of ‘o > u’ as in ‘ssis+eo-yo>ssi-seo-yu.’
Eventually, the characteristic Choongchung district’s dialect form of ‘-eo yo > eo yu ~ yu’ is not due to the application of the standardized phonological phenomenon. Also, it was confirmed that depending on the different types of stem morphemes and termination consonants that precedes ‘-eo yo’ there were different types of implementations.