从吴语的浊辅音看清浊概念

The Concepts of Voiceless and Voiced Observed From the Voiced Consonants of Wu Dialect

语言学中的清浊问题历来是一个引人关注的问题,吴语中的浊辅音在听感上是浊的,但在语图上没有表现出浊音特征,引起很多学者的兴趣,对此进行大量的研究和论述。本文总结了一些研究结果,解释吴语清浊的语音学机制,并引入紧松的概念,框定清浊和紧松的使用范围,认为在昊语音系中使用紧松代替清浊更加科学合理。

The opposition of the terms voiceless and voiced is an interesting aspect in linguistics. In Wu dialect, voiced consonants are grave to ear, however, no voicing characteristics can be traced on the spectrograph, which has aroused great interest in a number of scholars, who are engaged in a profound research into the above-mentioned phenomenon. This paper sums up some of the results of relevant researches, interprets the vocalization mechanism of the voiceless and the voiced, introduces the terms of tense and lax, and defines the boundaries of the above two sets of entities. The paper also deems it more scientific to employ the concepts of tense and lax in place of voiceless and voiced.