INTONATION AND SENTENCE PROCESSING

描述(研究人员摘要)：自然语言呈现出广泛的 任何语言理解系统必须解决的一系列理解问题 对峙。对语言的成功理解需要一个数字 不同类型的语言信息和非语言信息 处理和解释。目前的心理语言学模型主要集中在 仅限于单一的语言信息来源，或者 句法或语义。拟议的研究将检查另外两个 可能被利用的信息来源：韵律 口语的特点及与之相关的统计规律 单词在一句话中同时出现。研究的第一个目的是 理论：韵律效应的实证研究 关于人类句子理解的统计变量将提供 语言理解模型的制约因素。第二个目标是 实用：对于有听力障碍或言语障碍的人来说， 计划中的研究结果将提供关键的信息， 补救训练方法的设计，以及对语音到文本转换的改进 翻译系统和文本到语音转换生产系统。

DESCRIPTION (Investigator's Abstract): Natural language presents a wide range of comprehension problems that any language understanding system must confront. The successful comprehension of language requires that a number of different types of linguistic and non-linguistic information be processed and interpreted. Current psycholinguistic models focus almost exclusively upon a single source of linguistic information, either syntactic or semantic. The proposed research will examine two additional sources of information that might potentially be exploited: the prosodic features of spoken language and the statistical regularities with which words co-occur in a single sentence. The first aim of the research is theoretical: empirical investigations of the effects of prosodic and statistical variables on human sentence comprehension will provide constraints on models of language understanding. The second aim is practical: for people with auditory deficits or speech problems, the results of the planned research will provide information critical both to the design of remedial training methods, and to improved speech-to-text translation systems and text-to-speech production systems.