Syllable production within and across languages

语言内和跨语言的音节产生

• 批准号: 7221885
• 负责人: PADRAIG G O'SEAGHDHA
• 金额: $ 14.47万
• 依托单位: LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-15 至 2009-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7221885
• 关键词: Accounting; Acquired Language Disorders; Address; Aphasia; Architecture; Basic Science; Chinese People; Code; Complement; Comprehension; Computer Simulation; Computer software; Conceptions; Consensus; Credentialing; Depth; Development; Dimensions; European; Evolution; Facility Construction Funding Category; Failure; Functional disorder; Generations; Guidelines; Knowledge; Language; Language Development; Learning; Linguistics; Literature; Maps; Mediating; Memory; Modeling; Pathology; Phonetics; Play; Process; Production; Property; Public Health; Receptive aphasia; Rehabilitation therapy; Role; Role playing therapy; Site; Spain; Specific qualifier value; Specificity; Speech; Speech Perception; Speech Therapy; Staging; Structure; Taiwan; Testing; Therapeutic Intervention; Time; To specify; Transcend; Uncertainty; United States; Variant; Voice; Wernicke Aphasia; Work; base; design; heuristics; language perception; language processing; lexical; phonology; programs; research study; theories

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The syllable is a prime unit of spoken language from cradle to grave, but its status in the current theory of language production or speaking is quite problematic. There is no consensus on the fundamental question of whether syllables are represented in word memory. In addition, the role played by syllables appears to vary widely across the world's languages. The aim of this project is to provide a multi-pronged attack on this significant weakness in a core aspect of our understanding of language production. The approach includes coordinated experimentation at sites in Taiwan, Spain, and the United States to provide comparable evidence for English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese, and computer modelling of the learning and use of syllables. Although the answer to the syllable puzzle is unlikely to be uniform across languages, this project seeks to identify general principles that transcend the particular story for each language. Addressing the status of the syllable in language production theory is critical because of the syllable's central role in making speech possible. Theories, computational models, and therapeutic interventions that misconstrue the syllable are in a very real sense "unable to speak". The project will clarify the prospect for a language general model of word production that encompasses variation in the roles syllables play, and will also specify language specific process models for three of the world's major languages. The latter proposals will provide the kind of specificity needed in computational models of speech production, in speech synthesis software, and in therapeutic interventions including aphasia rehabilitation and speech therapy. Relevance to Public Health: The syllable is a familiar unit of language but its role in the dynamic process of speaking is not well understood. A deeper knowledge of this aspect of the language repertoire is crucial to understanding both developmental and acquired language disorders and to their most effective treatment.

描述(申请人提供)：音节从头到尾都是口语的基本单位，但它在目前的语言产生或说话理论中的地位是相当有问题的。关于音节是否存在于单词记忆中这一根本问题，目前还没有达成共识。此外，音节在世界各地的语言中扮演的角色似乎有很大的不同。这个项目的目的是多管齐下地打击我们对语言产出理解的一个核心方面的这一重大弱点。该方法包括在台湾、西班牙和美国的地点进行协调实验，为英语、西班牙语和普通话提供可比较的证据，以及对音节的学习和使用进行计算机模拟。尽管音节之谜的答案在不同语言中不太可能是一致的，但这个项目试图确定超越每种语言特定故事的一般原则。讨论音节在语言产生理论中的地位是至关重要的，因为音节在使言语成为可能中起着核心作用。误解音节的理论、计算模型和治疗干预是真正意义上的“无法说话”。该项目将阐明文字产生的语言通用模式的前景，其中包括音节所起作用的各种变化，并将具体说明世界三种主要语言的语言过程模式。后一种建议将提供在语音产生的计算模型、语音合成软件以及包括失语症康复和语音治疗在内的治疗干预中所需的那种特异性。与公共健康相关：音节是一种常见的语言单位，但它在动态说话过程中的作用还没有被很好地理解。对语言习得的这一方面有更深入的了解，对于理解发展性和获得性语言障碍及其最有效的治疗至关重要。