Morpho-phonetic variation in English

在第二个资助期，VAR将继续解决主要问题，即形态结构如何在复杂单词的声学特性中表现出来。这个问题的答案对语音-词法相互作用理论和言语产生模式具有重要的意义。该项目将研究两个有前景的领域，一方面是派生词和复合词的语音，另一方面是词干的语音变化。对于派生词，我们将测试声学模式是根据层级、根据韵律成分、根据形态类别，还是根据单个单词及其词汇属性(如可分割性)。对于词形变化，我们将调查以同音后缀结尾的词干的语音特性(而不是像第一个资助期那样调查后缀本身)。该项目将使用来自语音语料库以及生产和感知实验的数据来测试各种相互竞争的假说，这些假说涉及对复杂单词的语音和音系学特性的潜在形态影响，以及这些影响对形态加工和语音产生和感知可能产生的反射。

In the second funding period, VAR will continue to address the major question of how morphological structure may manifest itself in the acoustic properties of complex words. The answer to this question has important implications for theories of phonology-morphology interaction and models of speech production. The project will investigate two promising areas, the phonetics of derived words and compounds on the one hand, and the phonetics of inflectional stems on the other. For de-rived words we will test whether the acoustics pattern according to strata, according to prosodic constituency, according to morphological category, or according to individual words and their lexical properties (such as their segmentability). For inflected word-forms we will investigate the phonetic properties of stems that end in homophonous suffixes (as opposed to investigating the suffixes themselves, as in the first funding period). The project will use data from speech corpora and from production and perception experiments to test various competing hypotheses about potential morphological effects on the phonetic and phonological properties of complex words, and the reflexes these effects may have for morphological processing and speech production and perception.