The Transition Sound of the Taiwanese Suffixation Word kim.a‘gold’

台語後綴詞「金仔」之過渡音研究

The purpose of this research is to investigate the phonetic representation of Taiwanese words triggered by the suffix a, using kim.a‘gold’as a case study. This paper proposes a new perspective on the autosegmental framework (Goldsmith 1976), and this new model emphasizes the role of a transition sound between the two morphemes (Lin 2006). The proposed account claims that the boundary between these morphemes is occupied by a transition sound (here called“two-slots”) through bidirectional spreading as [kimmaa]. The“two-slots”hypothesis is based on the acoustic evidence; most importantly, it solves the phonetic distinction between the two words [kimmaa]‘gold’and [kimma]‘place names'.

本文在自主音段音韻學（Goldsmith 1976） 的基礎上，提出了「二空缺」的分析架構（Lin 2006），並以此分析台語詞彙「金仔」在兩詞素「金」與「仔」結合之後所產生的音韻變化現象（暫不涉及音節間連音及超音段的分析）。本文提出的過渡音「二空缺」概念，也就是「重複音段」（gemination） 所認為的一個子音空缺，實際上是由二個小音段透過雙向擴散所共同參與的，即[kimmaa] 而非[kimma] 。「二空缺」的提出除了有聲學方面的依據外，同時它也較能有效區隔「金仔」與 「金馬」在語音表徵（phonetic representation） 上的差異，即[kimmaa] ‘金仔’ vs. [kimma] ‘金馬’，而非[kimma] ‘金仔’ vs. [kimma] ‘金馬’。