佤语马散土语元音松紧对立的声学分析

An Acoustic Analysis on Vowel Tense-and-Lax Opposition of Masa Dialect of Wa Language

文章就记音时出现的佤语马散土语中的"紧元音"进行了研究,采用声学实验的方法对a-a、ε-ε、i-i、■-■4组元音的区别特征进行了分析,证实了马散土语音点的发音人存在紧元音的例外现象,并通过共振峰的分布验证了语言学家提出的"紧元音舌位略低于松元音"的结论。

This paper studies ＂tense vowels＂ appearing in the phonetic transcription of Masa dialect of Wa language.By using the method of acoustic experiment,it analyzes the distinctive features among four pairs of vowels：a-a、ε-ε、i-i、■-■,and proves that there exist exceptional phenomenon in the tense vowels of Masa dialect.And through the distribution of formant,it validates the conclusion ＂the tongue position of tense vowels is a bit lower than that of the lax vowles＂ put forwards by linguists.