鄒語語音研究

A Phonetic Study of Tsou

本文在研究鄒語特富野方言的語音特徵。作者兼採聲學和聽學的分析，因此是首次以儀器研究鄒語的著作。因為詳細探討鄒語的各種輔音和元音，所以過去學者對於鄒語語音描述的歧異之處，在本文都獲得澄清。本論文分析包括元音共震峰的測量、輔音的帶音、發聲部位的嗓音起始時間、元音的基本音高。除了音段的描述以外，對於輔音群也有初步的探討。鄒語輔音群在世界上的語言是很少見的。

This paper examines the phonetic characteristics of the Tfuea dialect of Tsou, an Austronesian language spoken in Southern Taiwan. The authors employ both acoustic and auditory analyses, as such it represents the first instrumental study of Tsou. As the consonant and vowel inventories of the language are examined in phonetic detail, several points of disagreement in previous descriptions of the language are cleared up. The analyses include vowel formant measures, consonant voicing and VOT by place of articulation, and intrinsic pitch of vowels. In addition to the segmental description, there is a preliminary investigation of the consonant clusters many of which are only rarely attested in the world's languages.