A cross-linguistic investigation of lexical stress using corpus analyses, behavioural testing and computational modelling

一些语言在单词之间表现出不同的强调模式或“词汇重音”（“ZEbra”和“girAFFE”）。本研究将对词汇重音在语言加工中的作用提供更精确的认识。这将有助于教育工作者/临床医生与正常发育的儿童和发育迟缓的儿童以及教育工作者/学生在第二语言学习方面的工作。它还将改进自动语音识别/合成——用于商业应用，如电话银行、寓教于乐/认知电脑游戏和通信设备（为行动不便的人提供语音到文本的听写系统，为不能说话的人提供文本到语音的系统）。该项目与英国一家知名研究实验室合作进行，将保持澳大利亚在认知科学方面的竞争优势。

Some languages exhibit variable patterns of emphasis or 'lexical stress' across words ('ZEbra' v 'girAFFE'). This research will provide a more precise understanding of the role of lexical stress in language processing. This will assist educators/clinicians working with normally developing children and those with developmental delays as well as educators/students in second-language learning. It will also lead to improved automatic speech recognition/synthesis - used in commercial applications such as phone banking, edutainment/epistemic computer games and communication devices (speech-to-text dictation systems for those with limited mobility and text-to-speech systems for those unable to speak). Undertaken in collaboration with a high-profile research lab in the UK this project will maintain Australia's competitive edge in cognitive science.