Dissertation: A Phonological Description of Negerhollands

这是对购买MacSpeech Lab I的奖励，以补充Macintosh SE的声学分析能力。它由一个12位的macdios数字化仪、一个TTE抗混叠滤波器、一个麦克风和一个扬声器组成。有了这个设备，将对荷兰克里奥尔语最后一位说话人（现已去世）的语音形式进行声学分析。自18世纪晚期以来，学者们就对这种语言（在现在的美属维尔京群岛使用）产生了兴趣，然而，对于这种语言的广泛变化，没有令人满意的音系描述。初步调查表明，当在定量范式内分析时，荷兰形式的自由交替是可以理解的。用新设备进行声学测量将对这些可变模式的语音特征进行精确描述。

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.