英文摘要 |
Chinese liaison has been extensively studied in the past few decades and the phonetic representation of the liaison is generally perceived as an x-slot insertion derived by means of the gemination rule. However, I argue that the legitimacy of the rule and the inconsistency of phonetic forms after applying the rule. Consequently, this study aims to investigate the phonetic representation of liaison and uses the findings to infer the validity of the gemination rule. Acoustic technique and perceptual experiment are adopted for analysis and the results indicate that xx-slots rather than x-slot appears on morpheme boundary as the liaison; i.e., [ni^(ia)a] (two-slots) rather than [nija] (one-slot) deriving from /ni a/ by means of the application of the bidirectional spreading rule, not the gemination rule. |