摘要
本文对1990年出版的《朗曼发音词典》和早先的 Everyman English pronouncingDictionary(1977年13版)做了仔细比较,描述英语发音近时的变化:1)音素的变化;2)单词读音的变化;3)发音的演变趋向。文中说明了新词典标音方式的改进。
In 1921 Edward Sapir suggested the evolution of language system as a self-organized processwith structural balance always maintained. Since then modern linguistics has searched for reasonsof structural balance, with the structuralists differing from the functionalists. The author cites anexplanation given by thc functionalists, which says that man's speech activity tends to follow the'Economy Principle' of seeking an economical structure with 'maximum distinction'.
出处
《外语教学与研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
1991年第3期54-61,80,共9页
Foreign Language Teaching and Research
