前些年语言学界曾有三个平面的讨论。那是探讨如何在语言研究中把句法、语义、语用几个方面结合起来。国外也早有类似的看法。我很赞同这种结合的意见,同时在想:语音在语言研究中处于何种位置?这时,丹青友的一篇不长的文章(1993)引起我的注意,那题目中赫然出现“语音平面”四个字。当时我是眼前一亮,更是心头一亮:这正是我们要做的。语音是语言的物质外壳。文字是语音的记录,也是语言的记录。可是语音和文字在语言 A few years ago the linguistics community had three planar discussions. That is to explore how to combine syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects in linguistic research. Foreign countries have long had a similar view. I very much agree with this combination of opinions, thinking at the same time: Where is the voice in linguistic research? At this time, a short article by Dan Yuyou (1993) caught my attention and the question appeared “ Voice plane ”four words. At that time I was a shining light, but also my heart: This is exactly what we have to do. Voice is the material shell of the language. Text is the voice of the record, but also the language of the record. But voice and text are in language