发言者内部的语言接触:语音变化和跨语言影响
1Department of Linguistics, The University of British Columbia, Canada.
Language and speech
|July 31, 2023
概括
在双语演讲中,变量较小的语言会影响变量较大的语言. 这项研究表明,广东语的语音变化如何影响英语,影响声音的变化.
科学领域:
- 语音学和语音学 语音学和语音学
- 双语研究 双语研究
- 社会语言学 社会语言学
背景情况:
- 声音变化模型表明,语音社区内的变化分布影响改变方向.
- 双语演讲提供了一个独特的背景来测试语言交互如何塑造语音变化.
研究的目的:
- 调查是否较少变化的语言限制了双语说话者中较多变化的语言的语音变化.
- 探索广东语音分布对早期广东语英语双语语音产生的影响.
主要方法:
- 从早期的广东语-英语双语者的自发语音体的分析.
- 与单语言英语控制体进行比较,以确定跨语言的影响.
- 专注于停止障碍物的语音特征,特别是发声和释放模式.
主要成果:
- 广东语-英语双语者产生的语际英语 /b d g/ 与较少的发音和字末英语 /t k/ 与较少的释放相比,单语英语说者.
- 这些模式与广东语中观察到的语音分布保持一致,在广东语中,初始发音是渐变的,但最终停止释放是禁止的.
- 语言模式 (哪种语言是活跃的) 并没有显著影响双语者观察到的这些语音模式.
结论:
- 在双语演讲中,跨语言联系的类别中的语音变化是由每个语言内的语音变化分布形成的.
- 这为不同语言对声学影响的不同易受性提供了机制性的解释.
- 这些发现支持由变化分布驱动的声音变化模型,扩展到双语语境.
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