Broadening Access to UCLA Phonetic Data

摘要拉德福德(0345465)扩大对加州大学洛杉矶分校语音数据库的访问在国家科学基金会的支持下，彼得·拉德福德博士将把加州大学洛杉矶分校语音实验室的档案整理和编目到一个在线关系数据库中。这些档案包含了过去50年来世界各地语言的录音和辅助材料。最近的研究中使用了96种语言的录音，估计总共有260-300种语言。收集了大约20种濒危或现已灭绝的语言，主要是在美国国家科学基金会赞助的记录濒危语言语音结构的项目(1991-1999)期间进行的调查。这些录音大多有3-12个说话人，每种语言平均有6个人，所有这些人都有广泛的词表和较短的连接语音片段，旨在完整地展示该语言的声音。大多数其他语言是由一个或两个说话者制作的聚焦词表的录音。这些语言中的许多都鲜为人知，也不容易使用。这些数据将在一个关系数据库中进行组织和编目，学术公众可以通过加州大学洛杉矶分校数字人文中心服务器上的网站进行搜索。其他网站将有备份，CD也将保存在加州大学洛杉矶分校语音实验室，在加州大学洛杉矶分校的查尔斯·E·杨研究图书馆复制副本。所有在线材料将供合格学者下载。这将使学者们能够听到和分析各种语言的声音。该档案还将加强语言学的教学。更广泛的影响将在于建立一个语言语音数据库，不仅对语言学学者有用，而且对许多关心濒危语言和少数群体文化方面的人也有用。几乎所有说濒危语言的人都超过了60岁。再过几年，他们的后代只有通过听档案中的录音才能知道他们的祖先是如何说话的。此外，公众将能够听到这些语言，这样他们就可以亲耳听到希伯来语是否听起来像阿拉伯语，或者南部非洲的布须曼人是否真的发出那些奇怪的滴答声。

Abstract Ladefoged (0345465)Broadening access to UCLA Phonetics DataWith National Science Foundation Support, Dr. Peter Ladefoged will organize and catalog the archives of the UCLA Phonetics Lab into an on-line relational database. These archives contain recordings and supporting materials of languages from all over the world made over the last 50 years. Recordings of 96 languages have been used in recent research and it is estimated that there are 260 - 300 languages in the collection altogether. The collection includes around 20 languages that are endangered or now extinct, mainly investigated during the course of an NSF sponsored project on Recording the phonetic structures of endangered languages (1991-1999). Most of these recordings have 3-12 speakers, with an average of 6 for each language, all of them having extensive word lists and shorter pieces of connected speech designed to give a complete demonstration of the sounds of the language. The majority of the other languages are represented by recordings of focused word lists made by one or two speakers. Many of these languages are little known and not easily accessible. The data will be organized and catalogued in a relational database that will be searchable by the scholarly public through a web site on the servers of the UCLA Center for the Digital Humanities. There will be backup on other sites, and CDs will also be kept in the UCLA Phonetics Lab, with duplicate copies in UCLA's Charles E. Young Research Library.All the material on line will be available for downloading by qualified scholars. This will enable scholars to hear and analyze the sounds of a wide variety of languages. The archive will also enhance the teaching of linguistics. The broader impact will lie in creating a library of linguistic phonetic data that will be of use not only to scholars in linguistics but also to many people who are concerned with aspects of endangered languages and minority cultures. Virtually all the speakers of the endangered languages that have been recorded are over 60. In a comparatively few years their descendants will know how their ancestors spoke only by listening to recordings such as those that in the archive. In addition, members of the public will be able to listen to these languages so that they can hear for themselves whether Hebrew sounds like Arabic, or whether the Bushmen of Southern Africa really make those curious clicking sounds.