Perceptual correlates of syllable weight

在国家科学基金会的支持下，Matthew Gordon博士将开发一个听觉系统对语音刺激反应的计算模型。这个听觉模型将允许在世界语言的声音系统的一些不同的属性的定量调查，包括本研究的重点，跨语言的普遍现象的重量敏感的压力：压力的吸引力，某些“重”音节。这项研究将探讨听觉，而不是严格的声学，因素在重量敏感的压力系统中发挥的作用：特别是，这项研究将调查的假设，语言优先强调音节，有更大的听觉突出比其他音节。该项目通过收集和定量分析十种语言的语音数据，包括几种研究不足和濒危语言，超越了声音系统听觉基础的其他工作。这项研究还包括一个感知实验，证明了听觉因素驱动的重量敏感压力是普遍的，即使在语言缺乏重量敏感压力。 最后，本研究还将探讨在跨语言的基础上，重量和音节结构之间的可能的相关性，以获得一个重音系统的相关因素的洞察力。本研究探讨语音声学与听觉系统中语音感知之间的关系，以有助于我们对世界语言语音系统的理解。这项研究的结果将是一个公开的听觉模型，不仅将解释体重敏感压力的现象，研究的重点，但也将提供洞察其他几个语言特征，包括声音库存和音节结构。 此外，重音和音节结构之间的相关性的调查将潜在地有助于我们了解语音系统是如何获得的儿童。这项研究的另一个好处是，它拓宽了我们对一些研究不足和濒危语言的了解。

With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Matthew Gordon will develop a computational model of the auditory system's response to speech stimuli. This auditory model will allow for quantitative investigation of a number of different properties of sound systems in languages of the world, including the focus of this study, the cross-linguistically pervasive phenomenon of weight-sensitive stress: the attraction of stress by certain "heavy" syllables. This research will explore the role that auditory, as opposed to strictly acoustic, factors play in weight-sensitive stress systems: in particular,the study will investigate the hypothesis that languages preferentially stress syllables that have greater auditory prominence than other syllables. The project goes beyond other work on the auditory basis for sound systems by collecting and quantitatively analyzing phonetic data from ten languages, including several understudied and endangered languages. The study also includes a perception experiment demonstrating that the auditory factors driving weight-sensitive stress are universal, even in languages lacking weight-sensitive stress. Finally, the study will also explore possible correlations between weight and syllable structure on a cross-linguistic basis in order to gain insight into the factors relevant for acquiring a stress system. This research investigates the relationship between the acoustics of speech and the perception of speech in the auditory system in order to contribute to our understanding of the sound systems of the world's languages. The result of this research will be a publicly available auditory model that will not only account for the phenomenon of weight-sensitive stress, the focus of the study, but will also provide insight into several other linguistic features, including sound inventories and syllable structure. Furthermore, investigation of the correlation between stress and syllable structure will potentially contribute to our understanding of how sound systems are acquired by children. Yet another benefit of the proposed study is that it broadens our knowledge of a number of understudied and endangered languages.