어간말 자음군의 변이 유형과 그 지리적 분포

A Study on the Pattern of Variation and Geographical Distribution of 'Stem-final Consonant Cluster'

The purpose of this paper is to find out a pattern of variation and geographical distribution of 'stem-final consonant duster'. Korean Dialect Data, published by the Academy of Korean Studies, is used as a tool in order to analyze the topic. The characters of 138 areas of the whole land could be compared according to the book. The pattern of stem-final consonant duster is divided into two groups. A criterion is based on transparence in inflection. The one is the transparency pattern where we can expect the variation. The other is an opaque pattern in which the form of inflected words is not shown. According to the result of research, the transparency pattern is mainly found when stem is combined with the ending which begins with consonant. This pattern, however, rarely appears at Jeonbuk and Jeonnam province. The fact that about 10% of the transparency pattern is composed of vowel insertion should be considered in phonological analysis. The opaque pattern is shown three times more often in front of the vowel with ending than before consonant. The case of vowel insertion is more frequently and variously seen in the opaque pattern than the transparency. Jeonbuk and Jeonnam province are regarded as the area where vowel insertion is most frequently happened.