英文摘要 |
This paper is an application of stratificational techniques of linguistic description to tone sandhi phenomena in the Peiping dialect. Characteristic of the stratificational technique is its description of the facts of a given language in terms of a network of relationships. This network is divided into six stratal systems arranged in the following order, from semantic stimulus to speech output: hypersememic, sememic, lexemic, morphemic, phonemic, and hypophonemic. A given utterance begins with stimuli from the world outside the network. These stimuli initiate further stimuli via relationships in the network established according to the peculiar structure of the particular language involved. The process is thought of as analogous to the way an electric impulse travels along a wire in a circuitry network, and it is sometimes convenient to refer to a speech 'impulse' activated by a stimulus from the outside world, 'traveling' along connections within the network from the hypersememic stratal system to the hypophonemic, which produces speech sounds . The process is reversed in speech reception. |