語(yǔ)音學(xué)和音系學(xué)屬理論語(yǔ)言學(xué)的核心領(lǐng)域。本書(shū)選編19世紀中期至20世紀30年代12位具有代表性的語(yǔ)言學(xué)家在這兩個(gè)領(lǐng)域的論著(zhù)17篇,向讀者直觀(guān)展示語(yǔ)音學(xué)和音系學(xué)的早期發(fā)展軌跡,為當代的語(yǔ)言學(xué)研究者和學(xué)習者了解語(yǔ)音學(xué)和音系學(xué)發(fā)展史中的這一關(guān)鍵階段提供了第一手資料。本書(shū)可作為語(yǔ)言學(xué)專(zhuān)業(yè)研究生及英語(yǔ)類(lèi)專(zhuān)業(yè)高年級本科生“語(yǔ)音學(xué)” “音系學(xué)” “語(yǔ)言學(xué)流派” “語(yǔ)言學(xué)史”等課程的文本閱讀教材,對于其他對西方語(yǔ)言學(xué)思想史感興趣的讀者,亦是有價(jià)值的參考資料。
TABLE OF CONTENTSPart One
Phonetics in Britain and Continental Europe
Unit 1 Alexander John Ellis (1814–1890)..............................2
Reading From A Plea for Phonetic Spelling (1848).....................................4
Unit 2 Alexander Melville Bell (1819–1905)....................25
Reading From Visible Speech (1867).......................................................27
Unit 3 Henry Sweet (1845–1912).............................................38
Reading A On English Phonology (1877).................................................40
Reading B From A Handbook of Phonetics (1877).......................................44
Unit 4 Eduard Sievers (1850–1932)........................................52
Reading From Foundations of Phonetics (1901).......................................53
Unit 5 Otto Jespersen (1860–1943)........................................63
Reading A What Is the Use of Phonetics? (1910)......................................65
Reading B Sound Symbolism (1922).........................................................77
Unit 6 Daniel Jones (1881–1967).............................................99
Reading On Phonemes (1931).............................................................101
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語(yǔ)音學(xué)與音系學(xué)早期經(jīng)典著(zhù)作選讀
Selected Readings of Early Classics in Phonetics and Phonology
Part Two
Phonemics in the United States
Unit 7 Franz Boas (1858–1942)..............................................110
Reading A On Alternating Sounds (1889)............................................... 112
Reading B From “Introduction to Handbook
of American Indian Languages” (1911).................................... 121
Unit 8 Edward Sapir (1884–1939).........................................133
Reading A Sound Patterns in Language (1925)....................................... 135
Reading B The Psychological Reality of Phonemes (1933)..................... 154
Unit 9 Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949)...........................173
Reading A From “A Set of Postulates for the Science of Language” (1926)..... 175
Reading B From Language (1933)............................................................ 179
Unit 10 Morris Swadesh (1909–1967)....................................202
Reading The Phonemic Principle (1934)............................................. 204
Part Three
The Prague School’s Phonology
Unit 11 Vilém Mathesius (1882–1945)...................................222
Reading On the Phonological System of Modern English (1929)......... 224
Unit 12 Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy (1890–1938)...237
Reading A Theory of Phonological Oppositions (1936)...................... 239
A List of Sources from Which the Texts in This Book Are Taken.....253
后 記 ...........................................................................................257