Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and Supporting Activities: Nupe Phonology and Phonological Theory

少数民族博士后研究奖学金和支持活动：Nupe音系学和音系理论

• 批准号: 0109203
• 负责人: Ahmadu Kawu
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Kawu, Ahmadu N
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-10-01 至 2003-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0109203&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Minority; Postdoctoral; Research; Fellowships; Supporting

This post-doctoral research fellowships focuses on the phonology and morphology of Nupe, a Nupoid language spoken in Central Nigeria and its contribution to phonological theory. It follows up on research, which examined intralinguistic variation in different domains of Nupe phonology and morphology and the implications for Optimality Theory, and it will focus on various aspects of its phonology and morphology in the light of recent developments in phonological theory. The research will involve a comprehensive description of the sound system of Nupe. A reanalysis of various controversial aspects of its phonology will be undertaken. This includes the distribution of segments, and the best analysis of /Cwa/ and /Cja/ sequences in such forms as /egwa/ 'hand' and /egja/ `blood'. These sequences are open to different analyses in different languages, depending on the phonotactics, morphological distribution, and prosodic considerations of the language in question. The sequences will be experimentally investigated with a view to determining their true phonetic characteristics in Nupe. The study of the morphology of the language will be concerned with describing its word structure, namely the structure of formatives, phonotactics, prosody, and word formation processes such as nominalization and reduplication in the context of recent developments in morphological theory. These facets of its morphology have implications for phonological and morphological theory that have not been previously explored. This research will explore these implications, and the dimensions that they bring to linguistic theory. The phonetic basis of such phonological processes as palatalization, labialization, nasalization, assimilation, and glide formation will be experimentally investigated in order to discover their interaction with Nupe prosody. Such other processes as consonant and vowel elision that interact with the prosody will be studied, and their implications for phonological theory identified and explained. The tonal system of Nupe will be studied with particular focus on its complexities, which include consonant-tone interaction in noun and verb phrases, and the interaction of tone and intonation. The experimental investigation of tone will reveal the similarities and differences between Nupe and other tone languages that have been reported to exhibit intonation features. The aim is to discover whether all three tone systems have similar intonational systems. The results of this research will be of interest not only to researchers and scholars in descriptive and theoretical linguistics, but also to those in experimental linguistics, computational linguistics, philosophy of language, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, and cognitive science.

这个博士后研究奖学金的重点是在尼日利亚中部说的Nupoid语言的语音学和形态学及其对语音学理论的贡献。它跟进的研究，研究了在不同领域的Ninguistics语音和形态的语言内的变化和优选理论的影响，它将集中在其语音和形态的各个方面，在最近的发展，在语音理论。这项研究将涉及一个全面的描述的声音系统的仙女。将对其音系学的各种有争议的方面进行重新分析。这包括片段的分布，以及以/egwa/“手”和/egja/“血”等形式对/Cwa/和/Cja/序列的最佳分析。这些序列在不同的语言中可以进行不同的分析，这取决于所讨论的语言的音位结构、形态分布和韵律考虑。这些序列将进行实验研究，以确定其真正的语音特点，在仙女座。语言形态学的研究将关注描述其词的结构，即构词结构，语音，韵律和构词过程，如名词化和重叠在形态学理论的最新发展的背景下。其形态学的这些方面的音韵和形态理论，以前没有探索的影响。本研究将探讨这些影响，以及它们给语言学理论带来的维度。本研究将从实验角度探讨腭化、唇化、鼻化、同化、滑音等语音过程的语音基础，以揭示它们与若虫韵律的相互作用。与韵律相互作用的辅音和元音省略等其他过程将被研究，并确定和解释其对音系学理论的影响。本课程将着重研究若虫的声调系统，包括名词和动词短语中的辅音与声调的相互作用，以及声调与语调的相互作用。声调的实验研究将揭示仙女与其他声调语言之间的相似性和差异性，已经报道的表现出语调特征。其目的是发现所有三个声调系统是否具有相似的语调系统。这项研究的结果不仅会引起描述语言学和理论语言学研究者和学者的兴趣，而且会引起实验语言学、计算语言学、语言哲学、心理语言学、语言习得和认知科学研究者和学者的兴趣。