異なる意味と音声の長さ

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Sounds are the material carriers of a language. Linguistic signals and their meanings cannot be shown but through sounds, and therefore sounds are closely connected with syntactic relations and semantic structures. This article makes a phonetic analysis of two ambiguous structures in Chinese by using the methods of experimental phonetics and finds that in oral communication various lengths of sounds are a very important rhyming means of displaying syntactic structures and semantic relations. Just as our research has found, in Chinese oral communication, such means as lengthening or shortening the length of a sound unit to rhyme are often used to distinguish semantic contents and segment different syntactic structures so as to remove semantic ambiguities and achieve a good understanding of the meanings. The lengthened part becomes the semantic focus and the shortened part is weakened semantically. The kind of change of being strong or weak semantically by means of lengthening or shortening the lengths of sounds is an important rhyming way to remove semantic ambiguities in oral language.
2011-03-01