程式语韵律研究:现状、问题及展望

Research on the Prosody of Formulaic Sequences:Status Quo,Problems and Prospect

有关程式语韵律的讨论最早可追溯到20世纪70年代晚期开始的对儿童母语习得的研究。近10年来,研究者通过各种标有韵律信息的口语语料库,对成人英语学习者和本族语者的程式语韵律特征进行了初步考察与探索。然而,由于该研究起步较晚,其研究内容尚待进一步丰富和细化;所考察的语料库库容也偏小,导致研究结果的可靠性不强;此外,尚缺乏对程式语韵律特征的历时跟踪研究。后续研究应针对更多类型的程式语进行专门研究,建设一批库容更大、韵律标注信息更丰富且更统一的二语/外语学习者口语语料库,并从微观层面对程式语韵律特征进行历时跟踪研究。

Discussions on the prosody of formulaie sequences （FSs hereafter） can be traced back to as early as the late 70s of the last century when investigations into first language acquisition began to reveal some prosodic features of child language. In the past ten years, preliminary research has been conducted into the prosody of spoken FSs in the speech of adult learners and native speakers of Eng- lish. However, as this kind of research began comparatively late, many issues remain to be investiga- ted and some await further exploration. Also, the corpora used in its exploration are relatively small, which compromises the robustness of the research results. In addition, there is still a lack of diachronic research on the prosodic features of FSs. Future research should be carried out on the prosodic features of more types of FSs, and some larger prosodically annotated corpora which collect the spontaneous speech of second/foreign language learners and which have more prosodic information should be constructed. Last but not the least, diachronic research on the prosodic features of FSs also need to be carried out.