最近出版的《語音常識》是一部值得推荐的書,因为它是跟人民的需要密切联系着的。自从“全國文字改革会議”和“現代漢語規范問題学術会議”相繼召开以來,全國各地都响应了党和政府的号召,掀起了热火朝天的学習普通話的高潮。在这个时候,大家渴望一本有助于學習普通話的書籍的出版,是完全可以理解的。《語音常識》的出版,在相当程度上,是能够滿足这一需要的。《語音常識》的任务是給讀者一般的語音知識。要完成这个任务,必須从具体的語貫出發,拿一种或是几种語言的語音作系統的分析,然后从具体的語音事实中進行概括,提升为用以指導实踐的理論。本書編者在这方面的做法是令人滿意的:本書的中心是講漢 The recently published “Phonetic Knowledge” is a book worth recommending because it is closely linked to the needs of the people. Since the “National Conference on Literal Reform” and the “Conference on Modern Chinese Normative Issues” have been held one after another, various parts of the country have responded to the call of the party and the government and set off a new upsurge of popularizing Putonghua. At this time, it is totally understandable that everybody desires the publication of a book conducive to learning Mandarin. To a certain extent, the publication of “common sense in speech” can meet this need. “Voice common sense” task is to give readers a general knowledge of the voice. To accomplish this task, it is necessary to start from the specific language and take the phonetic analysis of one or several languages ​​as a systematic analysis, and then summarize the specific phonetic facts to promote the theory for guiding practice. The book editor’s approach in this area is satisfactory: the book’s center is speaking Chinese