A STUDY OF THE RHYTHM OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE

计划研究的目的是对节奏进行系统的观察 关于口语的。我们将在语言方面进行可比性研究 它们在使用时间维度方面有具体的不同之处 在音系系统中。我们将以英语为基础 比较，而另一种语言包括法语和日语。这些 三种语言在韵律组织方面存在显著差异 (分别为重音计时、音节计时和莫拉计时)以及方式 时长在语言上起作用。这种对节奏的系统检查 分为两个独立的部分：(1)话语的声学研究 由说被调查语言的人产生，以及(2)研究 节奏的感知提示(例如，确定声学因素 确定单音节和多音节词的知觉中心 在句内和句外)。感性主义的一个主要推动力 研究将使声学模型正式化、比较和对比 三种感兴趣语言中每一种的知觉中心位置。因此， 相关的生产和感知实验都将进行。 这些研究将主要在口语和听力方面进行。 俄亥俄州立大学科学和语言学系实验室，但合作 与日本和法国的特别研究机构将被寻找 (主要用于在以下环境中访问单语使用者 英语不是主要语言)。这项研究的结果将是 从时间模式和听觉处理两个方面进行评估， 语言障碍和时序；以及语言 收购。

The aim of the projected study is to take a systematic look at the rhythm of spoken languages. We will carry out comparable studies in languages which differ in specific ways with regard to the use of the time dimension within the phonological system. English will be used as the basis for comparison while the other language include French and Japanese. These three languages differ significantly in terms their rhythmic organization (stress-timed), syllable-timed, and mora-timed, respectively) and how duration functions linguistically. This systematic examination of rhythm is divided into two separate parts: (1) an acoustic study of utterances produced by speakers of the language under investigation and (2) a study of the perceptual cues to rhythm (e.g., ascertaining the acoustic factors determining perceptual centers in monosyllabic and multisyllabic words both in and out of sentential contexts). A major thrust of the perceptual studies will be to formalize, compare and contrast acoustic models of perceptual center location in each of the three language of interest. Thus both correlated production and perception experiments will be conducted. These studies will be carried out primarily in the Speech and Hearing Science and Linguistics Department laboratories at OSU, but collaboration with particular research institutions in Japan and France will be sought (primarily for access to monolingual speakers in an environment where English is not the dominant language). Results of this study will be evaluated in terms both of temporal patterning and auditory processing, language dysfunction and temporal sequencing; as well as language acquisition.