汉英擦音对比分析

中国的英语学习者在学习语音的过程中，往往以为汉英擦音相似或相同，因而造成英语擦音发音上的误差。该文着重进行汉英擦音的对比，阐述各自发音方法和特点，指出它们的差异，并探究产生发音错误的种种原因，从而有利于在教学中有针对性地对错误发音进行纠正，改善语音．全面提高学生的英语水平。     

湖南湘乡方言非组字的今读分析

湖南湘乡非组今读声母均为舌根音,部分乡镇方言中奉母读为舌根塞音;奉母的舌根塞音源于三等重唇音的分化以及匣母的影响;奉母的舌根塞音在未来演变中会擦化为舌根擦音,进而受普通话影响发生唇化。     

Emerging from below the social radar: Incipient evaluation in the North West of England

This paper investigates the social meaning of post‐nasal [ɡ]‐presence, a dialectal variant characteristic of North Western varieties of British English that is claimed to have local prestige. Using a matched‐guise approach, this study reveals the absence of a community‐wide norm with respect to how [?ɡ] clusters are evaluated as well as diachronic change in the level of awareness speakers have of this variable. Older subjects are not sensitive to the dialectal status of [?ɡ] and as a result do not evaluate it differently from [?]; the local form is more accessible to evaluation among younger subjects, for whom the northern indexicality is stronger, but at this incipient stage of social meaning there is no agreement on what the content of this evaluation should be. The results speak to questions regarding the development of shared norms, their role in the speech community, and the granularity of social meaning more generally.