摘要
英语重音包括词层面或者句子层面音节的语音突显。以往的研究多侧重对二者分别进行探讨,对两者相互关系的探究甚少。本研究基于韵律格局理论,从音高调域比、时长比、音量比3个维度对英语双音节词分别在孤立状态下和句末焦点状态下相邻音节之间相对突显的异同,以及3个声学参量之间在两种语境中的语音突显等级进行系统分析。研究表明:1)英语双音节词的12种语音突显模式与英语词重音模式一致,且表现出音强幅度积>调域>时长的趋势;2)与宽焦点情况相比,英语母语者均倾向于在窄焦点情况下产出重读音节更为突显,且呈现出时长>音强幅度积>调域的趋势;3)词重音语音突显模式和焦点重音语音突显模式呈现出一致性,且均呈现出句末窄焦点“重上加重”的声学表征,即句末窄焦点对于词突显模式均呈现出强化作用。
English stress includes the phonetic prominence of syllables respectively at the word level and at the sentence level. Many studies on word and sentence stress have been separately conducted, but the analysis on the relationship between the two are seldom discussed. Based on the prosodic pattern theory, this study attempts to make an exploration into the commonalities and differences in the relative prominence between the adjacent syllables in English di-syllabic words within two types of conditions, in isolated words or at the narrow focus of sentences, and takes pitch range ratio, duration ratio, energy ratio and the salience hierarchy of acoustic cues into consideration. The results indicate that: 1) the twelve phonetic prominence patterns of English words are consistent with their original stress patterns, and English words present the hierarchy of intensityamplitude integral>pitch range>duration as a whole;2) it is found that all English speakers show the tendency to produce the stressed syllables more prominent in narrow focus compared with that in broad focus, and the hierarchy of duration>intensityamplitude integral>pitch range is presented in English focal prominence;3) the prominence pattern of focal prominence remains to be unchanged with that of word prominence in English disyllabic words, and all speakers tend to produce the stressed syllables more prominent in narrow focus compared with that in isolated words, namely, the stress pattern of words will be reinforced by the narrow focus.
作者
郭嘉
崔思涵
王佳璇
GUO Jia;CUI Sihan;WANG Jiaxuan(College of Foreign Languages,Nankai University,Tianjin 300071,China)
出处
《外文研究》
2022年第4期8-16,102,共10页
Foreign Studies
基金
国家社会科学基金项目“汉英音系结构深层机制中的音高差比研究”(17BYY037)。