音韻論에 있어서 規則適用의 順序性에 關한 再分析

It has been assumed in the standard theory of phonology that rules apply extrinsically ordered in natural language. However, some years ago this assumption has been challenged. Koutsoudas, Sanders, and Noll(1974) (henceforth KSN), in particular, have argued that no phonological rules need to be ordered, and that the relative order of rule application is predictable by universal principles, thereby dispensing with language-specific ordering statements. On the contrary, in recent years, Cathey and Demers(1976) (henceforth CD), have claimed that the KSN hypothesis for unordered rules does not have linguistically significant universals. The purpose of, this paper is to compare the two hypotheses of KSN and CD and also to confirm the justification for the extrinsic rule order. It is shown in section one that some types of rule ordering relationships are explained according to KSN’s theory. It is hown in section two that whether or not the method used by KSN to make the simultaneous application principle workable is theoretically motivated. In section three, CD’s proposals for extrinsic ordering against the KSN theory are also introduced. It is shown in section four that some evidence for extrinsic rule ordering in Korean phonology is investigated. At the end of this paper it is verified that the extrinsic rule ordering in natural language is more natural and more descriptively adequate.