Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Prosody: Workshop on Prosodic Variability - U. of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; May 21-23, 2015

韵律的实验和理论方法：韵律变异性研讨会 - 伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳·尚佩恩分校；

• 批准号: 1451751
• 负责人: Duane Watson
• 金额: $ 1.39万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-03-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1451751&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Experimental; Theoretical; Approaches; Prosody; Workshop

Successful communication requires not just choosing the correct words and grammar, but also emphasizing the right words, pausing in appropriate locations, and using appropriate intonation and rhythm. This aspect of language is called prosody and it can convey important information about the syntactic structure of a sentence, which words in the conversation are given and new, and which aspects of the sentence are important. Understanding the rules for how prosody is used is important for building artificial speech systems that produce and understand natural language, designing interventions for individuals with speech disorders, and creating curriculum for language learners. A challenge for the field is the fact that the acoustic cues that signal which words are emphasized and where prosodic boundaries occur are highly variable, changing across both speakers and contexts. This variability is pervasive, yet researchers know very little about how the brain accommodates it. The special theme of this conference is understanding how speakers navigate pervasive variability in how prosody is realized in natural speech. Prosodic information varies significantly due to physiological and language-internal factors, dialect, idiosyncratic speaker preferences, and speech context. As a result, prosodic features lack acoustic cues that are constant across contexts. Nonetheless, human language users can readily use prosodic information in conversation. This puzzle constitutes one of the fundamental issues in prosody research. New approaches to these problems have recently emerged both in linguistic research on prosody and neighboring fields such as speech perception and recognition. The goal of this conference is to bring prosody researchers together with researchers in neighboring fields to discuss problems in prosodic variability. With invited speakers and participants from theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, phonetics, phonology, language acquisition and computer science, this meeting attempts to provide a holistic picture of prosodic variability and a venue for discussions that may lead to solving this core question in prosody research.

成功的沟通不仅需要选择正确的词语和语法，还需要强调正确的词语、在适当的位置停顿、使用适当的语调和节奏。 语言的这个方面称为韵律，它可以传达有关句子句法结构的重要信息，对话中的哪些单词是给定的和新的，以及句子的哪些方面是重要的。 了解韵律的使用规则对于构建产生和理解自然语言的人工语音系统、为言语障碍患者设计干预措施以及为语言学习者创建课程非常重要。 该领域面临的一个挑战是，表明哪些单词被强调以及韵律边界出现的位置的声学线索是高度可变的，在不同的说话者和上下文中都会发生变化。 这种变异性是普遍存在的，但研究人员对大脑如何适应这种变异性知之甚少。 本次会议的特别主题是了解说话者如何驾驭自然语音中韵律实现方式的普遍变化。由于生理和语言内部因素、方言、特殊的说话者偏好和言语上下文，韵律信息存在显着差异。因此，韵律特征缺乏在上下文中恒定的声学线索。尽管如此，人类语言用户可以轻松地在对话中使用韵律信息。这个难题构成了韵律研究的基本问题之一。最近，在韵律语言研究和语音感知和识别等邻近领域，出现了解决这些问题的新方法。这次会议的目标是将韵律研究人员与邻近领域的研究人员聚集在一起，讨论韵律变异性问题。 本次会议邀请了来自理论语言学、心理语言学、社会语言学、语音学、音系学、语言习得和计算机科学领域的演讲者和参与者，试图提供韵律变异性的整体图景，并提供一个可能解决韵律研究核心问题的讨论场所。