英汉特殊疑问句韵律特征对比研究_英语论文

The Contrastive Study on Prosodic Patterns of Wh-questions Between Chinese and English

摘要

韵律特征是针对言语这一人类的行为提出来的。它可以分为三个主要方面：语调、时域分布和重音。在哲学界、逻辑学界以及语言学界，特殊疑问句一直都是他们长期关注的一个重要议题。许多语言界的学者已经从多方面、多角度对英汉特殊疑问句进行了分析。他们主要从分类、句法构成、语义和语用功能上对特殊疑问句进行研究。目前国外的韵律特征研究主要沿着两个方向进行，一是研究韵律特征的声学相关物；另一是研究韵律特征在言语交流中的作用。近年来，国内的许多研究，特别是关于言语产生中的相互作用现象的研究表明，不但超音段(韵律)特征与音段特征之问是相互影响的，而且韵律特征的三个主要参数也不是相互独立的。特殊疑问句是常用句型之一，研究其韵律特征和发音原理对于韵律模式的教学具有理论和实践意义。但是，目前为止，对特殊疑问句的研究尤其是从韵律学的角度来研究还相对较少。本论文尝试从韵律特征的角度对英汉两种语言中特殊疑问句的韵律进行对比研究。

本论文由四个部分组成：第一章是简要介绍背景、意义和本文的结构。第二章是文献综述，涵盖一些关键术语、相关的理论研究和相关前人研究。第三章是本文的主体，主要分析韵律。最后一章是结论，其中包括主要的发现，研究的局限性和进一步研究的建议。

关键词:   特殊疑问句；韵律特征；音调；调位强度；语调

Abstract

Prosodic patterns are put forward based on the speech of human behaviors. It can be divided into three main parts: the tone, the time-domain distribution and stress. Wh-questions have always been a hot issue in philosophy, logic, academics and linguistics for a long term. In linguistics, a great number of scholars have analyzed the English and Chinese wh-questions from various aspects and multi-angles. Their study of wh-questions mainly focused on the classification of wh-questions, syntactic structure, semantic and pragmatic functions. At present, prosodic study abroad mainly along two directions, one study of prosody is acoustic correlates; the other is to study the role of prosody in speech exchanges. In recent years, many domestic researches, particularly research on the interaction between speech production phenomena, indicate that not only suprasegmental (prosodic) features and characteristics of the question segment influence each other, and the three main parameters of prosodic patterns are dependent. Wh-questions are one of the commonly used sentence patterns, which have the theoretical and practical significance for teaching and research by exploring their prosody and pronunciation principles. However, so far, there are few studies of wh-questions from the perspective of prosody. This thesis attempts to study the prosody patterns of wh-questions in English and Chinese from the perspective of prosody.

This thesis is formed of four parts: the first chapter is to introduce the background, the significance and the structure of this thesis. The second chapter is a literature review, covering some key terms and theories, the related theoretical researches and previous studies. The third chapter is the main body of this thesis, mainly analyzes the prosody. The last chapter is a conclusion, including the key findings, research limitations and suggestions for the future research.

Key words:  Wh-questions  Prosodic patterns  Tonality  Tonicity  Tone