再論漢語的聲調與重音

Revisiting Tone and Prominence in Chinese

漢語雖然沒有類似英文的重音，透過聲調的高低和長短仍能具體反映音節之間的輕重關係。本文透過諸多方言材料，嘗試剖析聲調和重音／非重音之間的關聯，並具體得出一個結論：重音節偏好高調、長調和較有標的聲調，非重音節正好相反。

This paper re-examines the correlation between tone and prominence in Chinese. Though not characteristic of stress as in English, Chinese employs pitch range and duration as two tonal parameters to present the strong-weak relation between syllables. Through a wide array of tonal phenomena in various Chinese dialects, this paper comes to the conclusion that a metrically prominent syllable prefers high-registered, long, or marked tones, and a less prominent syllable exhibits the opposite picture.