Dissertation: A Phonological Description of Negerhollands

这是对购买MacSpeech Lab I以补充Macintosh SE进行声学分析的能力的奖励。它由一个12位MacAdios数字转换器、一个TTE抗混叠滤波器、一个麦克风和一个扬声器组成。利用这一设备，将对克里奥尔语尼格霍尔兰语的最后一位发言者(现已去世)的录音语音形式进行声学分析。自18世纪末以来，学者们一直对这种语言(现在的美属维尔京群岛所说的语言)感兴趣，但对于这种语言的广泛变异，还没有令人满意的音系学描述。初步调查表明，如果在定量范式中进行分析，尼格霍尔兰的形式自由变化是可以理解的。用新设备进行声学测量将准确描述这些可变模式的语音特征。

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.