≪白虎通義≫와 ≪風俗通義≫에 반영된 舌音類의 구개음화 여부

Abstract

This study is designed to discuss whether zhang series[章組] words, yi initial[以母] words, and xie initial[邪母] words, which we will simply address as “dental initials”, have been palatalized into affricates or fricatives in Baihutongyi and Fengsutongyi of the Eastern Han. South Coblin, in his work A Handbook of Eastern Han Sound Glosses initially asserted that Paranomastic Glosses in those documents reflected the palatalization of the initials in question. He believed that palatalization of the dental initials is responsible for their frequent contacts with jing series[精組] words, and his view has not been challenged for well over 30 years. However, there is convincing evidence which shows that the dental initials were not yet palatalized in the glosses. They had a plenty of contacts with plosives or the liquid sound l’s. Our discussion also revealed that the dental initials had only a handful of contacts with jing series, which enables us to confirm that the phonological systems in terms of initials are almost same as those reflected in other scholars’ glosses which Coblin viewed as reflection of unpalatalized *tj-type initials. This study along with my two previous ones revealed that palatalization of the dental initials was not reflected in the sound glosses represented in the works produced all through the Eastern Han time. But the Buddhist Transcriptions of that time reflected the palatalization of the dental initials, which is believed to have represented the actual phonological system of the period. That means that the phonological systems of the scholars of the period still stood behind the actual phenomena and that their systems reflected the literary readings which had been handed down from their teachers and through academic tradition.