Anthropophonics

人类语音学

A term suggested by Polish linguist Jan Baudoin de Courtenay for the study of the physical potential for sound production in the human vocal apparatus. The field includes the physical comparison of vocal tracts and individual articulating organs in ethnic or racial populations, to determine whether anatomical differences (e.g. tongue size) have any phonetic or phonological consequences. Differences between the sexes and changes with age are also included. One of the general aims of the field is to determine the principles on which the selection of the sounds in individual languages might be based in the course of human evolution. The term is not used by all phoneticians, many of whom see its subject-matter as simply a part of phonetics.

波兰语言学家让·波得瓦·德库德奈提出的名称，指对人类发音器官产生语音的物理潜能所作的研究。包括对不同民族或不同人种的声道和个别发音器官作物理比较，从而确定解剖学上的差异（如舌的大小）是否有语音学或音系学的后果。性别差异和年龄变化也在研究之列。这一领域的一般目标之一是想弄清，在人类演化进程中，个别语言的语音选择可能基于哪些原则。并非所有的语音学家都接受这一术语，不少人认为其研究主题只是语音学的一个组成部分。