普通话四音节韵律词的时长分析

Duration analysis of quadric-syllabic prosodic words in Putonghua

本文对普通话四音节韵律词在实际语流中的时长表现进行了研究，主要考察了停延边界、组合结构和句法结构对普通话四音节词中各音节时长的影响。结果表明，停延边界主要对四音节词中第四音节的时长产生影响；组合结构主要对第二和第三音节的时长分布产生影响；句法结构的不同主要影响第二音节的时长，第二音节时长的变化体现了不同句法结构内部结合的紧密程度。

This paper studied the duration of quadric-syllabic prosodic words in utterances, mainly focusing on the effect of break level, combination structure and syntactic structure on duration of quadric-syllabic words in Putonghua. The results show that break levels in the main influence the forth syllable duration in a quadric-syllabic prosodic word. Combination structures mainly influence the duration relation of the second and the third syllables and syntactic structures mainly influence the second syllable duration. Moreover, the variations of the second syllable duration reflect the compact degree within different syntactic structures.