音节的本质和元辅音性质新说

The Essence of syllables and A new explanation of the nature of vowels and consonants

Submit Time: 2023-01-10

Author: 江荻 1,2 ;

Institute: 1.1江苏师范大学语言科学与艺术学院, 2中国社会科学院民族学与人类学研究所;

Abstracts

人们长期把音节作为一级语音单位，却不知是个假象；元音和辅音一直是语音学最坚实的单位，却不知实际是字母的冒名假借。文章分析了音节没有语言学地位的原因，学界的困惑与破茧尝试，并从历时角度剖析音节与字母的形成关系，从共时角度揭示出发音时间结构对音节本质的规定。在此基础上，本文以颠覆式的思路再定义音节，重塑元辅音的真实地位和价值。在这个意义上，旧的语音学湮灭了，新的语音学可否脱胎换骨、重整旗鼓、再塑金身，或有待未来。文章最后提出一套音节分析的简要方案和原则。

[英文摘要]People have long regarded syllable as a phonetic unit for a long time, but they do not know it is an illusion; Vowels and consonants have always been the most solid units in phonetics, but they are actually pseudonyms for letters. This paper analyzes the reasons why syllables have no linguistic status, the perplexity of the academic circle and the attempts to break the cocoon, and analyzes the formation relationship between syllables and letters from a diachronic perspective, revealing the rules of the pronunciation time structure on the essence of syllables from a synchronic perspective. On this basis, this paper redefines syllables with subversive ideas, and reshapes the real status and value of vowels and consonants as syllable variants. At the end of the paper, a brief scheme and principle of syllable analysis are proposed.