1928년 고루 이극로 녹음 발화의 단순모음 포먼트 고찰

초록

This article presents a formant analysis of monophthongs in Kolu Li’s speech recordings made at the Archives de la Parole of the University of Paris, commonly known as la Sorbonne, in 1928. Kolu Li was a linguist and national independence fighter (or national liberation fighter), and was actively engaged in language standardization, dictionary compilation, spelling establishment and other related movements and activities in the 1920s and thereafter. The recordings are now posted on the web at the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in digital format. They contain his oral descriptions of sounds and letters of the Korean language of the early twentieth century and an excerpt from the doctrine of Cheondoism or Chondogyo. The analysis shows that the eight monophthongs have clearly identifiable and separable F1 and F2 values. No mergers of ㅔ and ㅐ, of ㅡ and ㅓ, or of ㅜ and ㅗ are found. The mid vowel ㅔ is closer to the high vowel ㅣ than to the low vowel ㅐ, which is the reverse of the situation in the late twentieth century and onward. The formant values of ㅔ and ㅐ vary depending on the syllabic position within a word: their F1 values are lower and the F2 values are higher in word-initial syllables than in the other syllables of a word. Kolu Li’s recorded speech material could further help us identify and understand other aspects of vowels, the phonetic values of consonants, and the phonological system of early twentiethcentury Korean.

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