KBD: Turkish Kabardian Phonetics and Phonology

在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，马修·戈登博士将研究卡布斯语的声音系统，卡布斯语是俄罗斯高加索地区和土耳其使用的一种语言。 该项目将侧重于土耳其境内未得到充分研究和濒临灭绝的Kabalanya语。 从语音学和音系学的角度来看，卡巴拉语非常有趣，因为它的声音系统具有许多类型学上不寻常的特征，包括驱逐性摩擦音，广泛的位置对比，辅音对元音的普遍协同发音效果，以及形态和韵律之间的复杂相互作用。 对这些以及其他卡巴依的语音学和音系学特性的研究将增强科学界对声音系统中所证实的跨语言变异范围的理解。 该项目还将以录音、网络材料和书面材料的形式提供土耳其卡宾枪的多媒体文件。 收集到的数据将可能成为土耳其Kabbirah社区正在进行的语言保护工作的宝贵资源。 此外，该项目还将为一名语言学研究生提供培训，他也是土耳其卡宾枪社区的成员。

With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Matthew Gordon will be investigating the sound system of Kabardian, a language spoken in the Caucasus region of Russian and in Turkey. This project will focus on the understudied and endangered variety of Kabardian spoken in Turkey. Kabardian is of great interest from a phonetic and phonological standpoint since its sound system possesses a number of typologically unusual features, including ejective fricatives, an extensive set of place contrasts, pervasive coarticulatory effects of consonants on vowels, and complex interactions between morphology and prosody. Examination of these and other phonetic and phonological properties of Kabardian will enhance the scientific community's understanding of the range of cross-linguistic variation attested in sound systems. The project will also provide multimedia documentation of Turkish Kabardian in the form of audio recordings and both web-based and written materials. The collected data will potentially be a valuable resource in ongoing language preservation efforts by the Kabardian community in Turkey. In addition, the project will provide training to a Linguistics graduate student, who is also a member of the Turkish Kabardian community.