A Visualized Analysis of all the Doctors' and Masters' Dissertations Related to Experimental Phonetics in China from 1998 to 2018

摘要

Experimental phonetics is a branch of general phonetics, taking experimental methods to analyze sounds. Though the studies related to experimental phonetics in China started very late, under the guidance and leadership of distinguished supervisors, many dissertations have been finished in the area. The paper, making use of Citespace to make a visualized analysis of the all the related doctors' and masters' dissertations finished between 1998 and 2018, and taking advantage of Excel to make graphs, provides readers with a direct and visual analysis of the tendency of the studies on experimental phonetics in China. Meanwhile, the paper puts forward suggestion on the future studies in the area, hoping to bring about more studies in the area.