불가리아어, 러시아어와 한국어의 모음 체계와 특질 비교 연구

Phonological and Phonetic Vowel Features in Bulgarian, Russian and Korean

This paper aims to describe the phonological and phonetic vowel features in Bulgarian, Russian and Korean. First of all, the author attempts the comparative analysis between Bulgarian and Russian vowel system from the view points of phonology. As it is described above, Bulgarian has 6 vowel phonemes(/i, e, a, o, ə, u/) while the Russian has 5 (/i, e, a, o, u/). As it is well known, Bulgarian and Russian have the same mother language(Common Slavic and Old Church Slavonic), but now they have different vowel system. This is caused from the different phonetic status of vowel in their language. So the author compares the acoustic feature(mainly, their formant I, 2, 3), and gets the results as follows. 이미지 참조 As it is shown in the table, every figure of Bulgarian vowel formant(except /E/) is higher than Russian. It means that positions of Bulgarian vowel are located more back and more high in the oral cavity. This oral condition makes Bulgarian vowel be more independent than Russian and easy to pronounce the hard consonants. This also can be clue to explain the productive Russian soft consonants(because of their tongue positions - front and low). In the end of main chapter, the author describes Korean vowel features for the purpose of correct transcription and language learning. And also analysis its rich phonetic system.