维吾尔语中性元音的优选分析

An OT Analysis of the Neutral Vowels in Uyghur Vowel Harmony

文章根据标记性理论,运用优选论制约条件的等级关系,系统分析了维吾尔语元音和谐的实际语料,阐述了元音和谐跨语言的焦点难题——中性元音的不和谐性。文章认为,维吾尔语中性元音的不和谐性是该语言的元音系统中有标记结构与无标记结构相互对抗的结果,这种对抗结果的表达形式是[后位性]特征赋值的不对称选择。

Based on markedness theory,this article takes a constraint-based approach to analysis of Uyghur vowel harmony,focusing on disharmonic phenomenon of neutral vowels in Uyghur.The article argues that the disharmony of neutral vowels in Uyghur is the consequence of the conflicts between markedness and unmarkedness in Uyghur phonological structure,resulting in asymmetric feature specification of backness.