信息结构研究综述

A Survey of Studies of Information Structures

信息结构主要研究语言信息组织结构,不同学者从不同角度出发对其概念进行了定义和描述。国内外关于信息结构的研究主要涉及的内容有焦点、已知性、话题。此外,在基于大规模语料的研究中,国外学界发展出了一些信息结构的标注体系,国内学者已经开始关注并且使用这些标注体系进行具体的研究。本文首先对信息结构的概念进行阐释;其次,对信息结构研究的内容和逐渐发展出的标注体系进行整理和回顾;再次,对国内信息结构与语音接口研究的最新进展进行介绍;最后,结合国外研究经验和汉语实际,对汉语信息结构的研究做出一些思考。

Information Structure mainly studies the way by which language information was organized in discourse.Different scholars tried to define it from different perspectives.The perspectives of studies about Information Structure at home and abroad mainly involved with focus,giveness and topic.In addition,based on the large-scale corpus study,many scholars abroad have developed some annotation systems of information structure.Some scholars at home has laid focus on them and tried to do some specific study using them.This paper firstly reviews the definition of Information Structure.Then we sorts and reviews studies on Information Structure from different perspectives and gradually developing annotation systems.Next,we will introduce the latest interface study at home,which is about the relationship between information structure and prosody.Finally,combining with the research experience abroad and practical studies of Chinese,we try to think about how to develop the study of Chinese within the framework of Information Structure.