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“元音的音长不是元音的特性”,这个结论我可不敢下,我想语言学者们也不敢这么说。任何一个元音,也包括辅音,都有“音长”和“音长差异”。再推得极端化一点儿,任何一个语音(甚至声音)都有音长也有差异。我 ...8 u$ J& d* q# I" x& d
Q版007 发表于 2010-4-13 14:33 
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这个结论是我试图理解你4楼帖子的意思做出的。因为我认为音长是美语元音的性质之一,而你否认这个性质,认为元音没有固定音长性质,完全随语境而走,这也是为何长短元音为谬谈。 如果这不是你本意,那么我们全部要从头说起了。
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. s- |* M4 Z) D! y但是我在慢慢试图接受你的主要意思。
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wiki里关于音长作为元音的性质有这样一段,长短在这里是用松紧来表达的tenseness4 T' K+ j- F% I* M" h4 \
* r. h6 g5 b; XTenseness is used to describe the opposition of tense vowels as in leap, suit vs. lax vowels as in lip, soot. This opposition has traditionally been thought to be a result of greater muscular tension, though phonetic experiments have repeatedly failed to show this.
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. H! ?8 A y$ xUnlike the other features of vowel quality, tenseness is only applicable to the few languages that have this opposition (mainly Germanic languages, e.g. English), whereas the vowels of the other languages (e.g. Spanish) cannot be described with respect to tenseness in any meaningful way. In discourse about the English language, "tense and lax" are often used interchangeably with "long and short", respectively, because the features are concomitant in the common varieties of English. This cannot be applied to all English dialects or other languages.
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; t! l- m: V( X/ w这里肯定了我的说法,即音长是美语元音的一个性质,这个性质并不是所有的语言都有,比如法语,只有在以浊辅音结尾的词末才有。我们学习法语时是不会特别学习元音的音长的。你强调音长随语境变化是很好的point,但是这个应该是对美语元音发音的补充,而不是以此否定长短音元音的存在。
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" P* h+ d9 n# o+ y3 M% w* @如果我们对这个能达成共识,那我该说的就都说完了。 |
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