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

口语词法，即复杂词法的发音，对心理词汇和语法理论提出了两大挑战。首先是最近的洞察力，即所谓的绝对形态-音位变化比之前设想的要多变得多。是什么造成了这种差异，语法和词汇模型如何适应这种差异？第二个也是更普遍的挑战是确定形态结构在单词语音实现中的作用。最近，形态结构是否(如果是)影响复杂单词的发音和声学，以及这又如何影响理解，存在着相互矛盾的发现。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、感知和理解理论都具有重要的意义。应对这些挑战的研究仍处于初级阶段，这些现象的多方面性质要求采取跨学科的方法，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研究组是由来自四所大学的国际知名专家指导的一系列密切相关的研究项目。研究股的主要目标是开发考虑到形态结构和语音细节的言语产生和感知模型，以及形态-音系学相互作用的理论-语言学模型，这些模型在经验和理论上比数据中观察到的语音和音系学的可变性更充分。

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.