标记理论述评

A Survey on Markedness Theory

标记理论是结构主义语言学中重要的理论之一,最初由于分析音位的需要而提出.该理论发展到今天已形成了一套较为完整的理论体系,已广泛运用在音系、句法和语义分析等语言学研究的各个领域.本文简要介绍此理论的特征、最近的应用与发展并对该理论产生的原因从心理、认知等方面作了理论上的评述.

As one of the most important theories in structural linguistics, markedness theory was originally proposed for the necessity of phonological analysis. Within years of development, today this theory has formed its own theoretical system, which has been widely employed in different linguistic study areas such as phonology, syntax and semantics. This article attempts to make a brief survey of its features, applications and recent developments and also makes some accounts on the reason why it comes into being from the perspective of psychology and cognition receptively.