音类的音征与语音演变

Sound Cues and Sound Changes

本文提出音征概念和定义,认为音征是音类(音段)的下位单位。音征的提出是语音研究的深入,对于音变有很强的解释力,增加音征这一单位可以避免音段或音类命名的分歧。本文提出音征的多种分类视角和维度,用音征的变化来讨论卷舌音的音变问题、浊辅音清化的进程,以及声调产生的机制。音征可以独立自主转移到邻近音段,使得邻近音段的性质发生变化。本文还提出音变是渐变的观点,音变肇始于音征的渐变,因此言语交际在几代人之间是连续性的、无障碍的。

This paper puts forward the concept and definition of“cues”A cue is a subunit of a class of the sound or segment.The presentation of phonological features is an in-depth study of pho-netics.The addition of this unit can avoid the divergence in the naming of segments or classes of sounds.This paper also puts forward some opinions on the classification of cues.The presentation of cues has a strong explanatory power for sound changes.This paper discusses the sound change of rhotic,the process of consonant clearing,and the mechanism of tonogenesis.Finally,this paper puts.forward the view that the sound change is gradual.The sound change begins with the gradual change of the cues,the unit at the subordinate part of the sound segment.This may explain the continuity.and accessibility of verbal communication between generations.