汉语外来语最小词限制条件MinWd的研究——基于短语重音视角

Research on the MinWd Constraint for Chinese Loanwords: Based on Phrasal Stress Perspective

目前音系学中的MinWd限制条件过于笼统,应该细化,应按照外来语的词类将其细分为MinN,MinV和MinA三种情况。这是因为不同的词类在常用短语中携带的重音不同,因此,不同词类通常所包含的音节数即词长也应不同。通过具体音译外来语的分析提出,原来的MinWd应以逻辑布尔合取关系将子限制条件组织起来。

This paper argues that the traditional MinWd Constraint in phonology should be broken into three sub-constraints,namely MinN,MinV and MinA,according to the parts of speech of the word concerned,because different word category tends to contain different number of syllables in response to the different degrees of stress they commonly bear; e. g. an object NP tends to attract more stress than a head V. The three sub-constraints are claimed to combine into a complex constraint in a Boolean conjunction relation,on the basis of analysis of some transliterated loanwords used in Chinese.