An Ultrasound Investigation of Consonant Harmony in Tahltan (tht)

这个快速项目，PI道格惠伦，也许是“最后的机会”，以记录关键的音韵数据，世界上唯一已知的，口语，3路辅音和谐的语言，塔尔坦语。 塔尔坦语（Tahltan）是一种传统语言，只有少数人（估计有35，67 ya）生活在加拿大西北海岸。 塔尔坦语是一种北方阿萨巴斯卡语，与环北极地区的阿萨巴斯卡语密切相关。 使用与医院中使用的相同类型的超声波，PI将记录塔尔坦语说话者阅读塔尔坦语单词的集合列表，这些单词将引出辅音和谐语音情况，以测试所提出的假设-这种独特的三向辅音和谐是舌中针对三类辅音的特定凹槽形成的结果。这个项目对更广泛的关于大脑/身体相互作用之间关系的辩论具有潜在的影响。 此外，拟议的研究将记录一种即将灭绝的语言的各个方面;该项目包括一名大学生的参与，并将在学生进行科学教育时为他/她提供宝贵的实地培训。该项目还与帕特里夏·肖博士合作，她与塔尔坦人合作记录了他们的语言，并将这些社区关系带到了这个项目中。

This RAPID project, PI Doug Whalen, is perhaps the "last chance" to record critical phonological data on the world's only known, spoken, 3-way consonant harmony language, Tahltan. Tahltan, is a heritage language with only a few remaining speakers living (estimated 35, 67ya) on the North West Coast of Canada. Tahltan is a Northern Athabaskan language and as such closely related to the Athabaskan languages spoken in the circumpolar north. Using an ultrasound, of the same kind used in hospitals, the PI will record Tahltan speakers reading a set list of Tahltan words that will elicit consonant harmony speech situations in order to test the hypothesis put forward - that this unique 3-way consonant harmony is the result of a specific groove formation in the tongue for the three classes of consonants. This project has potential implications for a broader debate about the relationship between brain/body interactions. In addition, the proposed research will be documenting aspects of a language soon to be extinct; the project includes the participation of a university student and will provide valuable field training to the student as he/she pursues his/her science education. The project is also in cooperation with Dr. Patricia Shaw, who has worked collaboratively with the Tahltan people in documenting their language and brings those community relationships to this project.