FOR 2373: Spoken Morphology: Phonetics and phonology of complex words

口语词法，即词法复杂的单词的发音，对心理词汇和语法理论提出了两大挑战。第一个是最近的见解，即所谓的绝对形态-音位交替比以前想象的要多变得多。是什么导致了这种变化，语法模型和词汇如何适应这种变化？第二个，也是更普遍的挑战是确定词形结构在单词语音实现中的作用。最近，形态学结构是否（如果是，如何）影响复杂单词的发音和声学，以及这反过来又如何影响理解的研究结果相互矛盾。因此，这一领域的研究对当前的心理词汇理论以及言语产生、感知和理解理论具有重要意义。针对这些挑战的研究仍处于起步阶段，这些现象的多面性需要跨学科的方法，整合发音语音学、声学语音学、心理语言学、神经语言学、计算建模和定量理论语言学的方法。DFG研究单位是由来自四所大学的国际知名专家指导的密切相关的研究项目集群。研究单位的首要目标是开发考虑到形态结构和语音细节的语音产生和感知模型，以及在经验和理论上更充分地考虑到数据中观察到的语音和语音变化的形态-语音相互作用的理论-语言模型。

Spoken morphology, i.e. the pronunciation of morphologically complex words, poses two big challenges to theories of the mental lexicon and grammar. The first is the recent insight that supposedly categorical morpho-phonological alternations are much more variable than previously conceived. What is responsible for this variation, and how can models of grammar and the lexicon accommodate it? The second, and more general, challenge is to determine the role of morphological structure in the phonetic realization of words. Recently, there are conflicting findings whether (and if so, how) morphological structure influences the articulation and acoustics of complex words, and how this in turn influences comprehension. Research in this area thus has important implications for current theories of the mental lexicon and of speech production, perception and comprehension. Research addressing these challenges is still in its infancy and the multifaceted nature of the phenomena calls for a cross-disciplinary approach, integrating approaches from articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, computational modeling and quantitative-theoretical linguistics. The DFG Research Unit is a cluster of closely related research projects directed by internationally renowned specialists from four universities. An overarching aim of the Research Unit is the development of models of speech production and perception that take morphological structure and phonetic detail into account, and of theoretical-linguistic models of morphology-phonology interaction that are empirically and theoretically more adequate with regard to the phonetic and phonological variability observed in the data.