Computer Tools for Phonetic Analysis: LAMSAS

用于语音分析的计算机工具：LAMSAS

• 批准号: 8819749
• 负责人: William Kretzschmar
• 金额: $ 3.76万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-02-01 至 1990-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8819749&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Computer; Tools; Phonetic; Analysis; LAMSAS

ABSTRACT In the past five years it has become possible to display and print phonetics and to manipulate phonetic data on small com- puters. The problem now is to integrate small computer tools to take best advantage of technological advances. This project will establish efficient methods for commercial software to enter, manipulate, analyze, and print phonetic data on American English from the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS). The Principal Investigator has applied commercial software to display and print phonetic data, and has designed a data structure for phonetic data with a commercial database program. The 1.5 million responses of the LAMSAS data-base require fast, accurate methods to enter phonetic data, now difficult to keyboard. Efficient methods will be developed to divide extremely variable strings of phonetics into classes in order to correlate the classes (numerically coded) with the characteristics of LAMSAS informants with a commercial advanced statistics package. Finally, methods will be designed to integrate the output of word processing, database, and statistical software to generate camera-ready copy for publication. The methods will be of immediate use to linguists for research on phonetics because all equipment and software is readily available at low cost and all procedures are readily portable for database research.

在过去的五年中，在小型计算机上显示和打印语音以及处理语音数据已经成为可能。现在的问题是整合小型计算机工具，以最大限度地利用技术进步。这个项目将为商业软件建立有效的方法来输入、操作、分析和打印来自中大西洋和南大西洋国家语言地图集（LAMSAS）的美式英语语音数据。本课题应用商业软件对语音数据进行显示和打印，并利用商业数据库程序设计了语音数据的数据结构。LAMSAS数据库的150万个应答需要快速、准确的方法输入语音数据，目前难以用键盘输入。将开发有效的方法，将极其可变的语音串划分为类别，以便将类别（数字编码）与LAMSAS举报人的特征与商业高级统计软件包相关联。最后，将设计方法来整合文字处理、数据库和统计软件的输出，以生成可供出版的相机副本。这些方法对语言学家的语音学研究有直接的帮助，因为所有的设备和软件都很容易以低成本获得，而且所有的程序都很容易携带，可以用于数据库研究。