WORD FREQUENCY AND THE PROPER/COMMON DIMENSION IN SPEECH

言语中的词频和适当/通用维度

• 批准号: 3217534
• 负责人: Douglas H Whalen
• 金额: $ 8.21万
• 依托单位: HASKINS LABORATORIES, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-04-01 至 1994-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3217534
• 关键词: adult human (21+); auditory discrimination; auditory stimulus; form /pattern perception; human subject; language; sound frequency; speech; vocabulary

Recent theoretical positions in both liguistics and psychology have emphasized the interaction of various levels of analysis in the production and perception of speech. The proposed research will explore the interaction of various domains by looking at acoustic measurements of spoken homonyms which differ in frequency either directly (e.g., "through"/"threw") or by a difference in the proper name/common word dimension (e.g., "Art"/"art"). Acoustic differences, especially duration, will be examined to see if thay are evenly distributed across phonemes, indicating that the lexical status of a word exerts an influence throughout its production, as with small changes in speaking rate. Alternatively, thedifferences could be concentrated in one class of phonemes, suggesting that the articulatory plans themselves differ. Small changes in speaking rate will be induced experimentally to help sort out the possibilities. Proposing separate representations will require some rethinking of the links between phonological representations, but would argue for a division between phonology and the lexicon. Postulating a continuing link between the sound production and the lexicon will be compatible with theories which have no divisions within the language system, but will require an exacting control mechanism to account for the small size of the effects of frequency. While the primary purpose of using proper names as stimuli is to increase the number of homonymous pairs of English words, it is also of interest to establish whether they belong in the lexicon proper. This will be tested directly by seeing if the auditory presentation of a homonymous first name (e.g., "Art") primes the associates of its homonym (e.g., "museum". from "art"), has been found for common word homonyms. If names behave juat as common homonyms, then the definition of the lexicon must be expanded to include them, changing the conception of lexical neighborhoods, phoneme frequencies, and letter frequencies. If names seem to exist in their own lexicon, it will be important to establish that lexicon's connection with the phonology (since proper names are phonologically regular) and with the tests of language capabilitythat occur in such deficits as aphasia. The results will give us further insight into the central role of the lexicon not just in determining the distributional characteristics of a language, but of its ongoing implementation as well.

最近语言学和心理学的理论立场 强调了不同层次分析之间的相互作用 言语的产生和感知。 拟议的研究将探索 通过观察声学测量来了解各个领域的相互作用 频率直接不同的口语同音异义词（例如， “通过”/“投掷”）或通过专有名称/常用词的差异 维度（例如“艺术”/“艺术”）。 声学差异，尤其是 持续时间，将检查它们是否均匀分布 音素，表明单词的词汇状态发挥着作用 影响整个制作过程，就像说话的微小变化一样 速度。 或者，差异可以集中在一个类别中 音素，表明发音计划本身不同。 将通过实验诱导语速的微小变化来帮助 整理出各种可能性。 Proposing separate representations will 需要重新思考语音之间的联系 表示，但会主张音韵学和 词典。 假设声音产生之间存在持续的联系 并且词典将与没有划分的理论兼容 在语言系统内，但需要严格的控制 机制来解释频率影响的小尺寸。 虽然使用专有名称作为刺激的主要目的是 增加英语单词同义对的数量，也是 有兴趣确定它们是否属于词典本身。 这 将通过查看声音的听觉呈现是否直接进行测试 同音名（例如“Art”）引发其同音词的联想 （例如，“博物馆”。来自“艺术”），已发现常见单词的同音异义词。 如果名字的行为与常见的同音异义词很相似，那么 词汇必须扩大以包含它们，改变“ 词汇邻域、音素频率和字母频率。 如果 名字似乎存在于自己的词典中，这一点很重要 建立该词典与音韵学的联系（因为正确的 名字在语音上是规则的）并且通过语言测试 失语症等缺陷中出现的能力。 结果将给出 我们进一步深入了解词典的核心作用，而不仅仅是在 决定一种语言的分布特征，但它的分布特征 也在持续实施。