Dissertation: A Phonological Description of Negerhollands

这是一个奖励购买MacSpeech Lab I， 增强了Macintosh SE的声音处理能力， 分析. 它包括一个12位MacAdios数字化仪，一个TTE 抗混叠滤波器、麦克风和扬声器。 与此 将对记录的设备进行声学分析 克里奥尔语最后一位发言者（现已去世）的讲话形式 荷兰语 学术界对 语言（现在的美属维尔京群岛），因为 18世纪后期，还没有令人满意的语音 描述了该语言所报告的广泛变化。 初步调查表明，自由交替的 在荷兰的形式是可以理解的，当分析在一个 定量范式 声学测量与新的 设备将产生语音的精确描述， 这些变量模式的特征。

This is an award for the purchase of a MacSpeech Lab I to supplement the capacity of a Macintosh SE to do acoustic analysis. It consists of a 12-bit MacAdios digitizer, a TTE anti-aliasing filter, a microphone and a speaker. With this equipment acoustic analysis will be carried out on the recorded speech forms of the last speaker (now deceased) of the creole language Negerhollands. There has been scholarly interest in the language (spoken in what are now the U.S. Virgin Islands) since the late 18th century, yet there is no satisfactory phonological description of the extensive variation reported for the language. Preliminary investigations suggest that the free alternation of forms in Negerhollands is comprehensible when analyzed within a quantitative paradigm. Acoustic measurement with the new equipment will yield a precise description of the phonetic characteristics of these variable patterns.