Recognizing Phonological Variants of Spoken Words

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究计划的主要目标是了解听众如何识别口语单词的语音变体（例如，[went，went]）作为说话者想要的词语（例如，[去]）。实验可以是最富有成效的，并进行最有知识的准确描述（声学和语音）的发音变化的英语。本提案的目的是通过完成30万字的会话语音语料库的语音标音来开发这样的描述。当转录完成后，我们不仅会将其用于此目的，而且语料库将提供给语音科学的研究人员。还将提供便于用户使用的分析和搜索语料库的软件，沿着大量辅助材料（说明手册、教程、用户论坛），以便利和鼓励使用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The over-arching goal of this program of research is to understand how listeners recognize phonological variants of spoken words (e.g., [went, went]) as the words intended by the talker (e.g., [went]). Experimentation can be most productive and performed most knowledgeably with an accurate description (acoustic and phonological) of pronunciation variation in English. The aim of the present proposal is to make it possible to develop such descriptions by completing phonetic transcription of a 300,000-word corpus of conversational speech. When transcription is finished, not only will we use it for this purpose, but the corpus will be made available to researchers in the speech sciences. User-friendly software to analyze and search the corpus, along with a host of supporting material (instruction manuals, tutorials, user forum) will also be provided to facilitate and encourage its use.