Collaborative Research: The interplay of production and perception in sound changes affecting US English

合作研究：影响美式英语的声音变化中产生和感知的相互作用

• 批准号: 1122950
• 负责人: Tyler Kendall
• 金额: $ 6.14万
• 依托单位: University of Oregon Eugene
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-11-15 至 2016-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1122950&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; interplay; production; perception

Does the dialect you speak determine how you hear the speech around you? With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Tyler Kendall and Dr. Valerie Fridland will conduct twenty-four months of linguistic research investigating how vowel perception is affected by dialect experience. Utilizing web-based perception experiments to gain participation from across the U.S., and recording speech from a subset of these participating subjects, the project will investigate what links exist between the perception and production of vowel categories (e.g., "ee" and "ih") and how these categories are mediated by variation at the level of the community and the individual. In particular, the research will examine whether distinctive regional vowel changes that affect three main dialects of American English (Northern, Southern and Western) are contributing to greater diversity in speech processing, in addition to speech production, and whether the degree to which individuals show such vowel changes themselves affects their speech processing in relation to their community norms. To gain a better understanding of the impact of social influences on speech perception, this research will investigate whether listeners' categorization of vowels is also affected by their expectations regarding learned social distinctions among speakers, such as regional affiliation or gender.Increasing evidence suggests that socially derived linguistic variation provides more than simply clues to social identity, and, in fact, plays a pivotal role in the actual processing and decoding of the speech signal itself. Research in this area should prove to have applied benefits such as informing educational approaches to non-native language/dialect populations and also to the development of voice recognition technologies. Further, comparative examination of the productive and perceptual range of speakers affected by different dialect experiences will inform both speech and hearing science and sociolinguistic research, contributing to basic theories about the nature of speech processing and of sound change.

您说的方言是否确定您如何听到周围的演讲？在国家科学基金会的支持下，泰勒·肯德尔（Tyler Kendall）博士和瓦莱丽·弗里德兰（Valerie Fridland）博士将进行二十四个月的语言研究，调查元音感知如何受方言经验的影响。利用基于Web的感知实验从美国各地获得参与，并从这些参与主题的一部分中记录语音，该项目将研究元音类别的感知和生产之间存在的联系（例如，“ EE”和“ IH”和“ IH” ）以及这些类别是如何通过社区和个人级别的变化来介导的。特别是，该研究将研究影响美国英语三个主要方言（北方，南部和西方）的独特区域元音变化是否有助于更大的语音处理，除了语音生产之外，以及个人表现出的程度是否这样的元音变化本身会影响与社区规范有关的语音处理。为了更好地了解社会影响对言语感知的影响，这项研究将调查听众对元音的分类是否也受到他们对说话者之间学到的社会区别的期望，例如区域隶属关系或性别。衍生的语言差异不仅为社会认同提供了更多的线索，而且实际上，在语音信号本身的实际处理和解码中起着关键作用。该领域的研究应证明具有应用好处，例如为非本地语言/方言种群的教育方法以及语音识别技术的发展提供信息。此外，对受不同方言经验影响的说话者的生产和感知范围的比较检查将为言语和听力科学和社会语言研究提供依据，从而有助于基本理论，这些理论有关语音处理和声音变化的性质。