论二十世纪我国的汉英语音对比研究

20世纪30年代至40年代,赵元任等学者已经开始对英汉语音的异同进行研究.自那时起,英汉语音对比成了我国英汉语言对比研究的一个重要领域,涉及发音语音学、音位系统构成、语流中的音变、音节、音高体系以及重音和节奏等七个方面,其中绝大部分成果为英语和汉语普通话的语音对比分析,但也有一些成果是对英语和汉语主要方言的比较,个别成果从历时的角度对英汉语音的异同进行了讨论.尽管我们在英汉语音对比方面已经取得了一定的成绩,但依靠实验手段的研究十分不够,生成音系学的汉英对比也尚无人涉足,语音对比的成果推广以及语音对比与语言学其他领域研究的结合更需大大加强.

On the Contrastive Study of Chinese-English Phonetics in China in the 20th Century

Y.R. Chao and others began a study of the similarities and differences between Chinese and English speech sounds in the 1930s-40s. Since then, the study has become an important area in the contrastive study of Chinese English languages in China, involving articulatory phonetics, phonological construction, variation in the speech flow, syllables, pitch systems, stress and rhythm. Much work has been done on a comparative analysis of English and standard Chinese phonetics. Some work involves a comparative study of major English and Chinese dialects. In addition, some results have been achieved regarding a diachronic study of the similarities and differences of English and Chinese phonetics. Though something has been done in the contrastive study of English and Chinese phonetics, there have been a plentiful lack of related experimental means and a gap of study in generative phonology. Adequate efforts are needed in the popularization of research findings in the contrastive study of phonetics as well as in the integration of a contrastive study of phonetics into linguistic study as a whole. However, this has meant that TEFL in China benefited greatly from the contrastive study, with Chinese students of English enjoying better tools in learning the pronunciation and intonation. They learn faster, and much better than speakers of other Oriental languages would do, even though the latter live among native speakers.