賽考利克泰雅語滑入音的音韻行為

Phonological Patterning of Prevocalic Glides in Squliq Atayal

在賽考利克泰雅語的書寫符號系統中，輔音後接滑音的音串在發音上常產生混淆。本研究對於泰雅語賽考利克方言的滑入音音韻行為作一檢視，以釐清其本質。泰雅語拼寫系統中的 CG（輔音後接滑音之音串），對應至三種不同的發音：(1) 同音節、(2) 異音節且以弱元音隔開、以及 (3) 異音節但音段相鄰。前人文獻中只注意到前兩種發音方式，然而是 (1) 與 (3) 的對比，證明了泰雅語的滑音在本質上應分為成音位滑音與元音衍生而來的滑音兩類。檢視含滑入音詞彙的構詞相關型式後發現，賽考利克泰雅語滑入音的音韻行為之所以看似複雜，是因為滑音形成規律、弱元音刪略規律、與音節重整同時作用於此一音韻系統中，導致成音位滑音與元音性滑音的分布產生交疊的情形。本研究顯示，賽考利克泰雅語兩類滑音的語音雖然類似，卻有不同的音韻徵性。

There is ambiguity regarding how a consonant-glide (CG) sequence should be pronounced in the Romanized orthography of Squliq Atayal. In this paper the phonological behavior of these prevocalic glides in Squliq Atayal is examined in order to determine the nature of the glides. The commonly seen CG spelling in Squliq orthography corresponds to three distinct surface pronunciations: (1) tautosyllabic, (2) heterosyllabic with an intervening weak vowel, and (3) heterosyllabic yet segmentally adjacent. In previous literature only the first two pronunciations have been identified, but it is the contrasting syllabification patterns between (1) and (3) that support the classification of these surface glides into two categories: phonemic versus vocalically derived glides. An examination of morphologically related forms containing glides shows that the perplexing distribution of Squliq Atayal glides results from the coexistence of glide formation, vowel syncope, and resyllabification in the same system, which causes the distribution of phonemic glides and vocalic glides to overlap. The analysis suggests that the two types of glides in Squliq are different in phonological features, although they appear phonetically similar.