Cross linguistic studies on spoken language processing

口语处理的跨语言研究

• 批准号: 7064836
• 负责人: Keith A Johnson
• 金额: $ 13.58万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-04-01 至 2008-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7064836
• 关键词: adult human (21+); auditory discrimination; behavior test; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; human subject; nonEnglish language; phonology; psychophysics; semantics; sensory feedback; speech; speech recognition

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term objective of this project is to understand spoken language processing (particularly speech perception and auditory word recognition) in linguistic context. Speech signals are unique in human experience because they are highly familiar, and have great practical significance in daily life. Therefore, it is not too surprising to find that people develop optimized processing strategies tuned specifically for speech (cf. Werker & Tees, 1984; Kuhl et al., 1992). In this project, we study how this tuning process may be sensitive to linguistic structure. Two key questions are addressed in the proposed work. (1) What in the speech perception mechanism is altered by linguistic experience? and (2) how is linguistic/phonetic information encoded for speech processing? These questions will be addressed in a set of nine studies that address four specific aims. (1) Distinguish between language-specific perceptual processing and language-universal auditory sensitivity for speech sounds. (2) Determine whether language-specific speech processing is tied to the lexicon. (3) Test the claim that phonetic/perceptual knowledge is oriented toward handling distinctive phonological features. (4) Model the experimental results in an explicit theory of speech perception.

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的长期目标是了解语言语境下的口语处理（特别是语音感知和听觉词识别）。语音信号在人类的经验中是独一无二的，因为它们是高度熟悉的，在日常生活中具有很大的实际意义。因此，发现人们开发出专门针对语音的优化处理策略并不太令人惊讶（参见Werker & Tees, 1984; Kuhl et al., 1992）。在这个项目中，我们研究这种调谐过程如何对语言结构敏感。