探索语调本质——《汉语语调实验研究》书评

THE NATURE OF MANDARIN INTONATION:A REVIEW OF EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON MANDARIN INTONATION

林茂灿先生的专著《汉语语调实验研究》系统地介绍了他关于汉语语调的相关研究成果。林茂灿先生基于赵元任先生的语调思想和现代语调的自主音段(AM)理论,以声学分析和感知实验为基础,系统地研究了汉语普通话单音节、单词的声调表现和句子的语调,本著作是他相关研究成果的集中呈现。林茂灿先生在专著中探讨了赵元任先生的总语调问题,并提出了汉语语调的双要素是语气和边界调,

Based on Yuen-Ren Chao’s intonation theory,and the Autosegmental-Metrical(AM)theory for intonation,Prof.Maocan Lin has been pursing studies on the nature of Mandarin intonation by means of acoustic analysis and perception experiments.His newly published book,Experiment Study on Mandarin Intonation,summarizes the phonetic analysis on tones,word stress,sentence stress,and functional mood of Standard Chinese.Additionally,he discussed Yuen-Ren Chao’s resultant intonation idea,and proposed that functional mood and boundary tone are two key elements of Chinese intonation.