Cross-language and individual differences in the production and perception of syllabic prominence. Rhythm-typology revisited.

音节突出度的产生和感知存在跨语言和个体差异。

• 批准号: 25022935
• 负责人: Professor Dr. William John Barry
• 金额: --
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2005-12-31 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/25022935?language=en
• 关键词: Cross; language; individual; differences; production

The consequences of cross-language and inter-speaker phonetic differences in the prosodic structuring of words and utterances for the realization of word stress and ¿information¿ accents (topic and focus) will be analyzed in the controlled production of contextualised sentences and their reiterant equivalents. A number of languages, traditionally considered to be stress-timed (e.g. German, English, Russian, Bulgarian), will be compared to syllable-timed languages (e.g., French, Spanish, Italian) and languages which are not so readily categorized as either (e.g., Portuguese, Czech) as well as to Japanese (as the representative of moratimed languages). Structural differences: a) differences in the variability of syllable complexity, b) the use or not of distinctive vowel length, c) the phonological status and d) type of spectral ¿reduction¿ in unstressed vowels, e) the type of stress and accent system, it is hypothesized, constrain the exploitation of duration, F0, ¿loudness¿ and spectral distinctness in producing prominent syllables. Anatomical and gestural-pattern variation (e.g., vocal tract shape, degree of mouth opening) between individuals may also systematically affect the weighting of these parameters. Whether the perception of prominence differs correspondingly is not known. Trading relations between parameter weights, either within- or cross-language could maintain comparable prominence percepts. Signal-manipulation experiments will be employed to examine and quantify the relative perceptual weighting of the prominence-giving parameters across and within languagegroups. The results will have implications for theories of universality, rhythm typology, metrical phonology and, more practically, for interference theories in second-language learning and for speech synthesis.

跨语言和说话人之间的语音差异在单词和话语的韵律结构中对实现单词重音和信息重音(主题和焦点)的后果将在受控产生的上下文句子及其重复的等价物中进行分析。一些传统上被认为是重音计时的语言(例如德语、英语、俄语、保加利亚语)将与音节计时语言(例如法语、西班牙语、意大利语)以及不那么容易归类为两者之一的语言(例如葡萄牙语、捷克语)以及日语(作为停顿语言的代表)进行比较。结构差异：a)音节复杂性变异性的差异，b)特殊元音长度的使用或不使用，c)非重读元音的音系状态和频谱减少类型，e)重音和重音系统的类型，它是假设的，限制了在产生突出音节时持续时间、F0、响度和频谱清晰度的开发。个体之间的解剖和手势模式差异(例如，声道形状、张口度)也可能系统性地影响这些参数的权重。人们对日冕的感知是否相应地不同还不得而知。参数权重之间的交易关系，无论是在语言内部还是跨语言，都可以保持类似的显着性感知。信号操纵实验将被用来检查和量化语言组之间和语言组内给予突显的参数的相对知觉权重。这一结果将对普适性理论、节奏类型学、韵律音系学理论以及更实际的第二语言学习和语音合成中的干扰理论产生影响。