Broadening Access to UCLA Phonetic Data

摘要Ladefoged（0345465）在国家科学基金会的支持下，Peter Ladefoged博士将把加州大学洛杉矶分校语音实验室的档案组织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。在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。该合集包括大约20种濒临灭绝或现已灭绝的语言，主要是在美国国家科学基金会赞助的“记录濒临灭绝语言的语音结构”项目（1991-1999年）过程中进行的调查。 这些录音大多有3-12个发言者，每种语言平均6个，所有这些录音都有广泛的单词列表和较短的连接语音片段，旨在完整地展示语言的声音。大多数其他语言是由一个或两个发言者制作的重点单词列表的录音代表的。其中许多语言鲜为人知，不易使用。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。在其他网站上也会有备份，CD也会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。青年研究图书馆。所有网上资料都可供合格的学者下载。这将使学者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民族文化的人也有用。几乎所有记录在案的濒危语言的使用者都超过了60岁。再过几年，他们的后代将只能通过听档案中的录音来了解他们的祖先是如何说话的。此外，公众将能够收听这些语言，这样他们就可以自己听到希伯来语听起来是否像阿拉伯语，或者南部非洲的布须曼人是否真的发出那些奇怪的咔嗒声。

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.