KBD: Turkish Kabardian Phonetics and Phonology

在国家科学基金会的支持下，马修·戈登博士将研究卡巴迪亚语的发音系统，卡巴迪亚语是一种在俄罗斯高加索地区和土耳其使用的语言。该项目将重点关注土耳其人所说的卡巴迪亚语中未被研究和濒临灭绝的语言。从语音和音系学的角度来看，卡巴迪安人非常感兴趣，因为它的声音系统具有许多不寻常的类型特征，包括弹射摩擦、广泛的位置对比、辅音对元音的普遍协同发音效果以及形态和韵律之间的复杂相互作用。对卡巴迪安的这些和其他语音和音韵学特性的研究将加强科学界对语音系统中所证明的跨语言变异范围的了解。该项目还将以录音以及网上和书面材料的形式提供土耳其卡巴迪人的多媒体文件。收集的数据可能会成为土耳其卡巴迪社区正在进行的语言保护工作中的宝贵资源。此外，该项目将为一名语言学研究生提供培训，这名研究生也是土耳其卡巴迪人社区的成员。

With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Matthew Gordon will be investigating the sound system of Kabardian, a language spoken in the Caucasus region of Russian and in Turkey. This project will focus on the understudied and endangered variety of Kabardian spoken in Turkey. Kabardian is of great interest from a phonetic and phonological standpoint since its sound system possesses a number of typologically unusual features, including ejective fricatives, an extensive set of place contrasts, pervasive coarticulatory effects of consonants on vowels, and complex interactions between morphology and prosody. Examination of these and other phonetic and phonological properties of Kabardian will enhance the scientific community's understanding of the range of cross-linguistic variation attested in sound systems. The project will also provide multimedia documentation of Turkish Kabardian in the form of audio recordings and both web-based and written materials. The collected data will potentially be a valuable resource in ongoing language preservation efforts by the Kabardian community in Turkey. In addition, the project will provide training to a Linguistics graduate student, who is also a member of the Turkish Kabardian community.