英語詞重音對語音變化效應

Effects of Lexical Stress on English Phonetic Changes

林森鈴(Sen-Ling Lin)

《運籌研究集刊》 7期 (2005/06) Pp. 92-127

https://doi.org/10.7047/LRR.200506.0092

摘要

本文主旨在闡釋英語語音變化之因由。英語每字素可含多音素，每音素又可衍生諸多變體語音，導致英語字彙與語音差異，徒增學習上之困擾。本文蒐集相關字彙加以對比分析，以瞭解音素與字素與語音相關性。結果顯示英語語音之演變主因繫於詞重音。詞重音可促使其元音及其緊鄰之輔音語音變化。據此列出規則，簡易瞭解音詞重音對英語語音發相關性供參酌，疏濬對語音變化所衍生之泰半難題。

關鍵字

重音 ； 音素 ； 語音 ； 音韻 ； 字素

並列摘要

The current study is aimed at making plausible explanations for phonetic factors that affect the assimilatory phonetic realization in English words. The study reveals that phonetic changes can be traced, and that one of the prime essentials in phonetic changes is lexical stress. Coupled with specific phonemic and graphemic features, lexical stress triggers phonetic changes. The nucleus of a syllable is lengthened, reduced or elided, while the consonant features adjacent to a stressed vowel can be assimilated, dissimilated, epenthesized, voiced, devoiced or elided. With these observations, phonological rules are formulated, which can disclose implicit phonetic features that lead to the assimilatory phonetic realization.

並列關鍵字

stress ； phoneme ； phone ； phonology ； lexigraphy

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