Recognizing Phonological Variants of Spoken Words

描述(由申请者提供)：本研究计划的总体目标是了解听者如何将口语单词的语音变体(例如，[go，go])识别为说话者想要的单词(例如，[go])。通过对英语发音变化的准确描述(声学和语音)，实验可以是最有成效的，也是最有见地的。本提案的目的是通过完成300,000字的会话语料库的语音转录，使开发这种描述成为可能。当转录完成后，我们不仅将把它用于这一目的，而且语料库将提供给语音科学的研究人员。还将提供分析和搜索语料库的用户友好软件以及大量辅助材料(说明手册、教程、用户论坛)，以便利和鼓励使用语料库。

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.