从粤英基频比较看港式英语声调性质  

The Nature of Hong Kong English Tones as Seen through a Comparison of F0 Profiles with Hong Kong Cantonese

作　　者：黄良喜[1] 梁源 Lian-Hee Wee LIANG Yuan

机构地区：[1]香港浸会大学 [2]香港教育大学

出　　处：《语言学论丛》2016年第2期257-276,共20页Essays on Linguistics

基　　金：香港优配研究金(General Research Fund)项目HKBU250712;香港教育学院内部研究金(Internal Research Grant)项目RG100/2014-2015的资助;香港浸会大学音系实验室(HKBU Phonology Lab)的支持

摘　　要：港式英语的音节可能具备的调型包括：高（H）、中（M）、低（L）三种，分别与港式粤声调的阴平[55]、阴去[33]以及阳去[22]、阳平[21]相对应。本文探讨港式英语这三个调型的性质和来源。通过提取录音基频，我们比较了港式英语和港式粤语声调的资料，发现（1）H与阴平[55]一致；（2）L比阳平[21]明显要低；（3）M与阴去[33]比较接近，与阳去[22]较疏远。由于港式英语只有H是词调、L只分布在韵律句末、而M只允许出现在词首，本文因此提出：港式英语仅在词的层面上移植了粤语阴平调，但在作为节律单位边际标记的调值上则有自己的一套。The English spoken by many Cantonese-speaking Hong Kongers （henceforth HKE ） are characterized by syllables that may surface as H （igh） , L （ow） or M （id） . This paper examines the possibility that HKE tones are inherited from Cantonese. Among the six Cantonese tones, of particular interest are Tone 1 which tone value isE551 ,Tone3[331 ,Tone4E211 ,andTone6E223 ,where[5 is very high and E 1 3 is very low. These tones are obvious candidates as correspondents of the HKE tones H, M and L. Comparison of re- cordings reveals that （i） Cantonese Tone 1 and HKE H tone overlap substantially; （ii） HKE L tone is substantially lower than Tone 4; and （iii） HKE M tone aligns better with Tone 3 than Tone 6. The data demonstrates that HKE inherits Tone 1 from Cantonese for lexical pitch assignment to HKE words, but imposes its own pitch assignment for prosodic boundary marking.

关 键 词：香港 粤语 英语 声调 基频 

分 类 号：H178[语言文字—汉语] H311