5.1 General Knowledge of the Sound System 【重点术语】
5.1 音响系统常识 【重点术语】
1. Phonetics
1. 语音学
(1) The major branches of phonetics
(1)语音学的主要分支
① Articulatory phonetics: it is a branch of phonetics which is the study of the production of speech sounds.
(1)发音语音学:它是语音学的一个分支,是研究语音产生的学科。
② Auditory phonetics: it is a branch of phonetics which studies the sounds from the hearer's point of view, that is, how the sounds are perceived by the hearer.
(2) 听觉语音学:它是语音学的一个分支,从听者的角度研究声音,即听者如何感知声音。
③ Acoustic phonetics: it is a branch of phonetics which studies the physical properties of the sounds produced in speech.
(3) 声学语音学:它是语音学的一个分支,研究语音中产生的声音的物理特性。
(2) Articulatory Phonetics
(2) 发音语音学
① vowel: it is a sound generally produced without obstruction, so no turbulence or a total stopping of the air can be perceived.
(1)元音:是一般无障碍发出的声音,因此无法感觉到湍流或空气完全停止。
② consonant: it is a sound in spoken language that is produced by constricting or obstructing the vocal tract. English consonants can be classified from two basic aspects: the manner and the place of articulation.
(2)辅音:是口语中通过收缩或阻塞声道而产生的声音。英语辅音可以从两个基本方面进行分类:发音方式和位置。
③ consonant cluster: it is a group of consonants that appear together in a syllable without a vowel between them. It produces more than one consonant sound, such as / sp/ in sport, / st/ in student, / sks/ in desks.
(3)辅音簇:是一组辅音一起出现在一个音节中,它们之间没有元音。它产生不止一种辅音,例如运动中的 / sp/,学生中的 / st/,桌子中的 / sks/。
④ digraph: it refers to a group of two or more symbols which actually represent one sound, such as“ph”/f/ in photo.
(4)有向字母:指一组两个或多个符号,实际上代表一个声音,如照片中的“ph”/f/。
⑤ coarticulation: it refers to the process of simultaneous or overlapping articulations when sounds show the influence of their neighbors.
(5)共发音:是指当声音显示出其邻居的影响时,同时或重叠发音的过程。
2. Phonology
2. 音韵学
(1) phone: it is a basic unit of phonetic study, and it is a minimal sound segment that human speech organs can produce.
(1)电话:是语音研究的基本单位,是人类言语器官所能发出的最小音段。
(2) phoneme: it is a basic unit of phonological study, and it is an abstract collection of phonetic features which can distinguish meaning.
(2)音素:是语音学研究的基本单位,是语音特征的抽象集合,可以区分意义。
(3) allophone: it is the different realization of the same phoneme in different phonetic environment.
(3)同位异音:是同一音素在不同语音环境下的不同实现。
(4) minimal pairs: two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment.
(4)最小对:两种不同的形式除了一个声音片段外,在各个方面都是相同的。