Doctoral Dissertation Research: Phonetics and Phonology of Ju/'hoan

.9705334Khoisan语言是有趣的语音学家和音韵学家，因为他们 大的，独特的声音库存。该项目的目标是详细描述和 对纳米比亚科伊桑语Ju/'Hoasi中所有对比音的分析 语言，以及语言的理论分析，将推进普遍性 语言学理论科伊桑语独特的声音还有47个咔嗒辅音 不同类型的元音。元音的区别不仅在于它们的发音位置 口腔，而且还通过声音的质量使用。该语言还使用四个 不同的音高层次来传达意义的对比，并使措辞更 在口语中清晰并保持节奏。虽然世界上的许多语言 世界使用音高对比，音高在Ju/'hoasi和其他语言中的使用有所不同。 科伊桑语此外，有些辅音有一个令人沮丧的影响， 音调，从而导致言语中的物理扰动，这可能是认知上的 内化了这些将被调查，以确定有多少这些影响是 语音的，或认知为基础的，有多少是语音的，或纯粹由于 声音的物理质量。对Ju/'hoasi声音模式的全面调查 将需要前往纳米比亚记录个人的声音，单词，短语和 句子的意义，他们是如何措辞，以及哪一部分的对比， 句子正在集中。数据将在现场使用笔记本电脑进行处理 计算机，并在返回美国，在那里的资源在俄亥俄州国家 大学语言学实验室将被用来调查的物理声学特性， 语音、单词和短语。将进行理论分析 整个项目。这项工作的最终成果将是一个博士论文的学生 调查员，阿曼达米勒-奥克胡森。

.9705334Khoisan languages are interesting to phoneticians and phonologists because of their large, unique sound inventories. The goal of this project is a detailed description and analysis of all of the contrastive sounds found in Ju/'hoasi , a Namibian Khoisan language, as well as a theoretical analysis of the language which will advance universal linguistic theories. Sounds unique to Khoisan languages are 47 click consonants, as well as many different types of vowels. Vowels contrast not only by where they are made in the oral cavity, but also by the quality of voice used. The language also uses four different pitch levels to convey meaning contrasts, and to make phrasing more perspicuous and maintain rhythm in spoken language. While many languages in the world use pitch contrastively, pitch is used somewhat differently in Ju/'hoasi and other Khoisan languages. In addition, some of the consonants have a depressing effect on pitch, and thus cause physical perturbations in the speech which may be cognitively internalized. These will be investigated to determine how much of these effects are phonological, or cognitively based, and how many are phonetic, or due purely to the physical quality of the sounds. Complete investigation of the sound patterns of Ju/'hoasi will require travel to Namibia to record individual sounds, words, phrases and sentences which contrast by meaning, how they are phrased, and which part of the sentence is being focused on. The data will be processed both in the field using a laptop computer, and upon return to the United States, where resources at the Ohio State University Linguistics Lab will be used to investigate the physical acoustic properties of the sounds, words and phrases studied. Theoretical analysis will be carried out throughout the project. The final outcome of this work will be a doctoral dissertation by the student investigator, Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen.