Dissertation Research: An Articulatory, Acoustic and Perceptual Study of Tiwi Coronals

论文研究：提维冠状的发音、声学和感知研究

• 批准号: 9320373
• 负责人: Ian Maddieson
• 金额: $ 1.33万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-05-01 至 1995-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9320373&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Articulatory; Acoustic; Perceptual

9320373 MADDIESON Arrernte, an Australian language, is unusual among the world's languages in containing several subtly but meaningfully different consonants produced by contact between the tip and/or blade of the tongue and the roof of the mouth. Their acoustic characteristics, and how the distinctions are made and perceived, are not well understood. Studies including a sufficient population to account for inter-speaker variation are also lacking. the planned research will seek to link articulatory gestures involved in producing these consonants with salient acoustic characteristics, and to determine the roles of active articulator shape, area of passive contact, and other variations in oral cavity configuration. Acoustic and palatographic records for twelve speakers will be obtained and submitted to preliminary analysis during an extended fieldwork trip to Australia. Various potential perceptual cues will be tested to evaluate which are most effective in predicting recognition of these consonants. Final analysis of field data will be completed at UCLA. This study will constitute the first comprehensive, instrumentally-backed, multi-speaker characterization of production, acoustics and perception for a language of this type. It will contribute to descriptive phonetics, the understanding of perceptual cues, knowledge about uniformity of articulations within a language, and will help shape hypotheses about linguistic universals. ***

9320373澳大利亚语言Madeeson Arrernte在世界语言中是不寻常的，因为它包含了几个微妙但有意义的不同辅音，这些辅音是由舌尖和/或舌叶与口腔顶部接触而产生的。它们的声学特征，以及它们的区别是如何产生和识别的，还没有被很好地理解。包括足够的人群来解释说话人之间的差异的研究也是缺乏的。这项计划中的研究将寻求将产生这些辅音的发音手势与显著的声学特征联系起来，并确定主动发音器形状、被动接触面积和其他口腔结构变化的作用。将获得12名说话者的声学和腭部记录，并在前往澳大利亚的长期实地考察期间提交初步分析。将测试各种潜在的感知线索，以评估哪些在预测对这些辅音的识别方面最有效。现场数据的最终分析将在加州大学洛杉矶分校完成。这项研究将构成对这类语言的产生、声学和知觉的第一个全面的、有乐器支持的、多说话者特征的表征。它将有助于描述语音学、对感知线索的理解、关于语言内部发音一致性的知识，并将有助于形成关于语言共性的假设。***