ABSTRACT This article claims that because English as a lingua franca (ELF) users sometimes orient to phones as something reminiscent of both phonemes and allophones, an ELF phonology exists. However, an ELF phonology necessitates modifying the traditional concepts of phoneme and allophone to account for the fact that ELF users are more often in Transient International Groups than speech communities. Specifically, this study examines pronunciation negotiations within which ELF users orient to some phonetic differences as semantically equivalent and to others as semantically different. Although traditional phonology would describe different phones that instantiate semantic equivalence as belonging to allophones of the same phoneme, and different phones that instantiate semantic difference as belonging to different phonemes, this study argues that these concepts are too tied to the notion of a language variety and its speech community to be applicable to an ELF phonology, and thus new nomenclature is warranted and necessary.

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是否存在 ELF 音系？

摘要 本文声称，由于英语作为通用语言 (ELF) 用户有时会将音素定位为让人联想到音素和异位音素的东西，因此存在 ELF 音系。然而，ELF 音系需要修改音素和异位音的传统概念，以解释 ELF 用户更多地处于瞬态国际组而不是语音社区的事实。具体而言，本研究检查了发音协商，其中 ELF 用户将某些语音差异视为语义等效，而将其他语音差异视为语义不同。尽管传统的音韵学会将语义等价的不同音素描述为属于同一音素的同位异音，而将语义差异实例化的不同音素属于不同的音素，