英语高升调与女性语调特征

现代语言学奠基人索绪尔认为语言是用来表达观念的符号系统。该论述为学习和研究英语语调提供了一个新的视角。英语语调模式的选择与话语者的身份、性别关系密切,具有重要的社会文化表征功能。文中简要论述英语高升调的社会文化表征功能和女性语调的特点,并利用母语语料库开展语音实验案例分析,用实验和数据统计分析来验证社会语言学家所观察的语调特征。

English High Rising Terminal and Women-s Intonation

The founder of modern linguistics,Ferdinand De Saussure,held that a language is a system of signs expressing ideas. It has provided a new view in the study of English intonation. The choice of tone patterns is related closely to the speaker＇s social identity or gender difference,which is of important social and cultural functions. This writer makes a case study of the English high rising terminal and women＇s intonation,along with experimental phonetics approach and analysis of variance to examine the set intonational patterns claimed by some sociolinguists.