中国汉语语音实验研究的发端(1922-1937)

The Beginning of Experimental Research on Chinese Phonetics(1922—1937)

20世纪20年代前后,在国外留学的赵元任、刘复等人受西方语言学研究方法和近代自然科学理论的影响,运用语音学的理论和实验方法研究汉语语音问题,取得了一批有影响的成果。他们回国后,先后建立语音实验研究机构,开设大学专门课程,组织人力开展汉语语音实验研究,奠定了中国实验语言学的初步基础。通过对这些工作进行了全面系统地梳理,探讨几位先驱者为开辟运用科学方法研究汉语语音问题的新领域所做出的贡献与成就,及其意义与影响。

Around the 1920s,Zhao Yuanren and Liu Fu,who studied abroad,were influenced by western linguistic research methods and modern natural science theories,and they used phonetics theories and experimental methods to study Chinese phonetics,and made a lot of influential achievements.Coming back home,they set up a phonetic experiment research institute,opened special courses in universities,and organized manpower to carry out experimental research on Chinese Phonetics,which laid a preliminary foundation for experimental linguistics in China.This paper makes a comprehensive and systematic review of these works and reproduces the efforts made by these pioneers to open up a new field of using scientific methods to study Chinese phonetics.