认知语法对音系学研究的新启示

How Cognitive Grammar Renews Phonological Studies

认知音系学以认知语法的研究范式考察人类语言的语音系统,是认知科学跨界延伸到音系学的产物。认知音系学不仅对音系学的经典概念予以重新审视,同时也对音系-句法平行现象、语音与语义关联性这两个传统生成语法鲜有探讨的音系学问题有重要的启示。此外,认知派的研究框架也给音系学研究提供了众多的全新路向,打破了语言本体各大层面之间、语言结构与语言使用之间、语言学与其他学科之间长期隔绝的状态。总之,认知语言学对音系学的本体论和方法论皆带来一场大革新。

The expansion of cognitive science to the domain of phonology gave birth to cognitive phonology, which studies the sound systems of human languages with doctrines of cognitive grammar. Cognitive phonology not only refreshes the understanding of classical concepts in phonology, but also has significant implications for linguistic issues like phonology-syntax parallels and sound-meaning mapping, which are under-examined in traditional generative grammar. Moreover, cognitivism, as a research framework, offers numerous brand-new perspectives to phonological studies, bridging the chronic gaps between strata of language, between language structure and language use, as well as between linguistics and other disciplines. In conclusion, cognitive linguis?tics has revolutionalized phonology both ontologically and methodologically.