현대중국어 베이징방언 연속발화 기능어 개(個)의 음성적 약화 변이 = Variability in Phonetic Reduction of the Function Word “ge” in Connected Speech from the Beijing Dialect of Modern Chinese

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to investigate the variability in phonetic reduction of the function word “ge” in connected speech from the Beijing dialect of Modern Chinese. Based on the phonetic corpus taken from the famous TV show, the type and the degree of the reduced variety were analyzed using acoustic phonetical and statistical methods. The relationship between linguistic environment and its reduced forms was also examined. The results showed that most of consonants were changed into the approximants (51%) or deleted (16%), which appears to be the result of the cliticization of “ge”. Vowels showed the tendency of being weakened as a schwa (80%), which was consistent with language universal tendencies. Frequency effects and the morphological environments turned out to be statistically not significant in the correlation study (p>.05), unlike other usage-based approaches. Sentence stress and utterance rate, however, showed fairly low level of relevance. (p<.05) Theoretically, the prosodic characteristics of the Beijing dialect as a stress language and language contact with other dialects would be expected to continuously accelerate the phonetic reduction of “ge” in the future.