摘要

河婆客家話與苗栗、海陸、東勢的客家話一樣，有六個元音，分別為[i, e, a, o, 本文主要是從聲學的角度來分析這六個元音的分布。本研究的發現有：（1）河婆客家話的元音呈現不太平衡的分布，前元音[i, e]都比後元音[u, o]還要高。（2）河婆客家話的低元音之比台灣國語的低元音還要低。（3）河婆客家話的舌尖元音與國語的舌尖元音很類似，比美濃的舌尖元音還要前 面。（4）河婆客家話的空間面積遠比國語的空間面積還要寬大，卻與美濃客家話的 空間面積很近似。此外，透過標準化的比對，發現河婆客家話之元音分布在各種量 表之中，都很相同，波動不大。

The goal of this article is to explore and analyze the vowel properties reflected in acoustics. In the literature, there have been few studies on this issue. By way of Praat and its extended script program （Huang 2013）, we find that （a） the six vowels of Hepo Hakka are plotted quasi-symmetrically in that the back vowels [u, o] are lower than the front vowels [i, e], （b） the low vowel, to compare with that of Mandarin Chinese, is rather low in nature, （c） the apical vowel is, strangely enough, is almost identical with the Mandarin , and （d） the vowel space of Hakka is wider than that of Mandarin Chinese. All the findings are novel in the field of Hakka studies, which sheds some light on the acoustic studies of vowels in general.

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