粵語音系變異認受性分層及其理據

Public Acceptability of Cantonese Phonological Variations: Ranking and Rationale

粵音朗讀試工作組(Cantonese Read-Aloud Test Work Group)

《中國語文通訊》 102卷1期 (2023/01) Pp. 19-35

https://doi.org/10.29499/CrCL.202301_102(1).0002

摘要

粵語在音段方面的音系變異，學術文獻和一般講論經常提及的有六種，分別是舌根韻尾齦化（-2）、脣化舌根塞音非脣化（-1）、ŋ聲母零化（+1）、n聲母邊音化（+2）、非虛語素零聲母ŋ化（+3）、成韻鼻音雙脣化（+4）。本文是本小組對有關問題多年思考、分析、討論、實踐結果的學術報告，對它們的認受性自低至高作出線性排列，用"-2"至"+4"來標示並列序，以正負值來劃分接受與否，並詳細交代如此排列和劃分的理據。

關鍵字

粵語 ； 音系 ； 變異 ； 認受性 ； 音段

並列摘要

In so far as segments are concerned, 6 kinds of Cantonese phonological variation are widely mentioned in academic literature as well as discourses by laymen. The 6 are respectively alveolarization of velar codas (-2), de-labialization of labialized velars (-1), realization of onset ŋ- as glottal stop (+1), realization of onset n- as [l] (+2), realization of glottal stop onset in lexical morphemes (as opposed to grammatical morphemes) as [ŋ] (+3), and bilabialization of syllabic velar nasals (+4). This is an academic report based on the deliberation, analysis, discussion and practice of the group. We consider the relative public acceptability of the 6, arrive at the above rank order of them denoted as "-2" to "+4", draw the line of acceptance with "+/-", and register the bases of such ranking and demarcation.

並列關鍵字

Cantonese ； phonological ； variation ； acceptability ； segment

參考文獻

Bauer, Robert Stuart. 1982. Cantonese sociolinguistic patterns: Correlating social characteristics of speakers with phonological variables in Hong Kong Cantonese. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley PhD dissertation.

Bauer, Robert S. 1983. Cantonese sound change across subgroups of the Hong Kong speech community. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 11(2). 301–354.

Bauer, Robert S. 1986. The microhistory of a sound change in progress in Hong Kong Cantonese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 14(1). 1–42.

Chao, Yuen Ren. 1947. Cantonese primer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Cheng, Lauretta S. P., Molly Babel & Yao Yao. 2022. Production and perception across three Hong Kong Cantonese consonant mergers: Community- and individual-level perspectives. Laboratory Phonology 13(1). 1–54.