여수지역어의 음운현상에 대한 사회언어학적 고찰 = A Sociolinguistic Study on the Phonological Phenomena in Yeosu Dialect

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how and to what degree the social factors like generation, sex and educational background, influence the phonological phenomena in Yeosu dialect.
As a result of this study, umlaut (the front shift of back vowels) is one of the dialect-specific phonological phenomena. It is realized in G1 speakers most actively, and the writer can predict it will disappear in the near future because it is used the less in G3 and G4 than the older generations. The female speakers of G1 show higher rate of umlaut than the male of the same generations. But in G3 and G4, the female use it less than the male. The writer thinks it's because the female youths want to look better in their speaking. And the lower the degree of education is, the higher the rate of umlaut is. With the same degree of education, G1 speakers use umlaut forms more often than the younger speakers.
And /k/ glottalization is observed generally from G1 to G3, but n G4 speakers we can see the phenomenon only for some specific words. This may be explained by the fact that G4 who have strong personality in general tend to intimate their on identity with their language. With respect to the sex, the female speakers use glottalized /k/ less than the male in all generations(G1～G4). This may be because the female speakers, generally more sensitive to language than the male, want to express themselves with more refined and graceful speaking. And from G1 to G3, the lower education is observed to result in more glottalization of /k/, but in spite of the lower education, it is rare observed in G3.