福建英语的语音特征研究
Investigation of the Phonological Features of Hokkien English

福建话是一个方言组，也被称为“闽南语”，它包括了大量的方言，如潮汕话、汕头话、厦门话、海南话、泉州话、雷州话、镇南话以及迈话。闽南语主要在中国大陆东南部的福建省南部、台湾、东南亚等地区使用，它也是汉语中音素最丰富的方言之一。本研究的研究者研究调查了一名母语为闽南语的，来自厦门大学临床医学专业的EFL使用者与标准英式英语IPA之间发音的差异。研究表明，样本在元音发音上，过度地使用/？/ (高，背，单元音)。样本在辅音发音上有三个显著差异，包括在“th-”开头的单词中使用/n/，/l/代替/e/，使用/s/代替/θ/，在“-th”结尾的单词中使用/s/代替/θ/，以及使用/l/代替/n/。研究对象还有3个明显的语音特征，包括弱音节删除、尾辅音删除和音团减少。在最好使用弱化读音形式的情况下，研究对象基本不会对单词读音进行弱化。总的来说，母语为闽南语的EFL使用者，英语发音在多方面上和标准英式英语IPA具有明显差异。未来的研究建议对更多的方言使用者的发音进行调查、归纳和总结，以此在教授英语发音的时候进行课程和方法改进。
Hokkien is a dialect group also called “Southern Min” that is spoken over the Southern areas of Fu-jian Province (“Min” as abbreviation) in Southeastern Mainland China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia Hok-kien includes a great number of dialects such as Chao-Shan, Shantou, Xiamen, Hainan, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Leizhou, Zhenan Min as well as Mai. Hokkien is one of the most diverse phoneme dialects among Chinese languages and it contains more consonants than Madarin and even Shanghainese and Cantonese. This study investigates how a native Hokkien speaker (the subject) produces spoken English compared with standard British IPA English. The study shows that the participant overused /？/ (high, back, unit) for vowel sounds. The sample had three significant differences in consonant pronunciation. The subject also had three distinct phonological features, including weak syllable deletion, final consonant deletion and group reduction. When it was best to use a weakened form, the subject did little to weaken the words. In general, the English pronunciation of a typical native Hokkien speaker is significantly different from that of standard British English IPA in many phonological aspects. Future research is suggested to investigate the English pronunciation of Hokkien and other dialect speakers. English educators should understand and study the characteristics and differences in pronunciation of diverse dialect speakers, and then make improvements in curriculum design and teaching methods.