本篇論文針對三位以臺灣華語為母語的音韻異常兒童，採長期觀察的方式，研究中文顎音[tɕ, tɕʰ, ɕ]的習得狀況與產製現象。習得狀況方面，詳細描述顎音的習得順序、常見的語音錯誤之音韻歷程、延遲的音韻歷程類型、錯誤取代模式隨著年紀增長而改變的情形。產製現象方面，本篇論文探討了顎音所在音節的音節複雜度(Syllable complexity)是否會對顎音的正確率以及錯誤取代狀況有所影響。 本研究共觀察三位年齡為三歲十個月至五歲三個月且正在接受語言治療的音韻異常兒童長達六個月，以每週一次的頻率前往醫院收集幼童與語言治療師之間的自然對話，並利用錄製回來的影音檔做譯寫和分析。 結果顯示，音韻異常兒童的顎音習得狀況有以下現象：(1)顎音發展較為停滯，幾乎沒有隨著年齡的增長而有進步的現象。(2)音韻異常兒童在發顎音時，會系統性的使用不該是他的年齡所應該出現的音韻歷程。(3)顎音的語音錯誤之音韻歷程種類不多，但使用的頻率卻非常頻繁。上述結果皆驗證了前人文獻的研究結果(Stoel-Gammon & Dunn, 1985; Jeng, 2011)。除此之外，本研究也發現音韻異常兒童具有以下特徵：(4)音韻異常兒童能夠察覺兩個音之間送氣特徵(aspiration feature)的不同，在選擇替代音時，也會選擇與目標音有相同送氣特徵的音來取代。(5)音韻異常兒童的語言能力和語言表現之間有落差，也就是說，他們知道能夠區辨出哪個是正確的音，但卻無法正確的使用該語音。(6)音節複雜度會對音韻異常兒童的顎音產製造成影響。因此，音韻異常兒童在顎音的習得狀況和產製表現上都和正常兒童不同。 音韻異常兒童使用的錯誤音的模式顯示塞擦音基底形式中的[stop]成分及[cont]成分並非均等(asymmetrical relationship)，且塞擦音是屬於以左邊的成分為主要核心的語音(left-headed)，並從第一語言習得的觀點為塞擦音的真實面貌提供了一項證據。 / The purpose of this study is to discuss the issue concerning the acquisition and production of Mandarin palatals [tɕ, tɕʰ, ɕ] in Taiwan Mandarin-speaking disordered children. Four aspects regarding the acquisition of Mandarin palatals are included in this study: the order of acquisition, the phonological processes involved, the delayed phonological processes, and the path of error patterns. In addition, the effect of syllable complexity on disordered children’s palatal production is also examined. Three disordered children (aged 3;10 to 5;3) who were identified as having delayed phonological development are investigated in this study. A six-to-seven month of longitudinal observation is conducted by recording the spontaneous speech between the therapists and the children during the process of speech therapy. The results showed that phonologically disordered children have the following characteristics on palatal acquisition and production: (1) static phonemic system that stops at an early level of development, (2) persistent uses of delayed processes, and (3) frequent uses of phonological processes. These characteristics were asserted in the literature (Stoel-Gammon & Dunn, 1985; Jeng, 2011) and have been proved in this study. In addition, we found that disordered children are unconsciously able to notice the aspiration feature of two sounds, and will use an error sound that has an identical aspiration feature with the target. Moreover, the disparity between the linguistic competence and the linguistic performance in the disordered children was also found. Last, syllable complexity has found to affect disordered children’s palatal production. The substitution errors used by the disordered children support Schafer’s (1995) study, in which he claimed that the underlying representation of affricates is left-headed. To sum up, this study has provided a piece of evidence for the unsolved issue of the nature of affricates from the field of first language acquisition, and might serve as a reference for parents and speech therapists for understanding palatal acquisition and production in disordered children.

Bereits in frühen Phasen der Sprachentwicklung sind bei Kindern mit Spaltbildungen im Vergleich zu Kindern ohne Spaltbildungen Abweichungen beobachtet worden. In der Fachliteratur sind allerdings meist nur undifferenzierte Aussagen über den frühen strukturellen Verlauf zu finden. Daher wurde eine Untersuchung an 100 Kindern mit Spaltbildungen im Alter von 0-1;6 Jahren durchgeführt. Untersuchungsgegenstand waren die kindlichen Vokalisationen in der 1.Lallphase, der 2.Lallphase (prälinguistische Phase) und der Phase des Sprechbeginns (frühe linguistische Phase). Die Analyse umfaßte phonetische Parameter, den aktiven Wortschatz sowie die Silben- und Wortstrukturen. Die Auswertung ergab hinsichtlich des temporalen Verlaufs beim überwiegenden Teil der Probanden keine Unterschiede, hinsichtlich des strukturellen Verlaufs jedoch deutliche, typisch-spezifische Unterschiede im Vergleich zu altersgleichen Kindern ohne Spaltbildungen. / Even at the earliest stages, differences in speech development can be observed between children with cleft palate and those without cleft palate. One finds, however, only undifferentiated statements in the scientific literature on the early structural and linguistic phases. We therefore undertook an investigation of 100 children with cleft palate between the ages of 0 and 1;6 years. The subjects of the investigation were the children s vocalizations during the first and second babbling phases (prelinguistic phase) and during the onset of speech (early linguistic phase). The analysis included phonetic parameters and active vocabulary, as well as syllable and word structures. Our results showed no differences among the majority of the cildren, in terms of temporal development, and only typical-specific differences in structural development, in comparison with children of the same age without cleft palate.

Darbas „Lietuvių šnekos atpažinimo akustinis modeliavimas“ yra skirtas lietuvių šnekos atpažinimo akustiniam modeliavimui. Darbe buvo tirtas žodžiais, skiemenimis, kontekstiniais skiemenimis, fonemomis ir kontekstinėmis fonemomis grįstas šnekos atpažinimas. Tyrimai atlikti izoliuotiems žodžiams ir ištisinei šnekai. Iki šiol lietuvių šnekos atpažinime populiariausi kalbos vienetai buvo fonema ir kontekstinė fonema, o kitų kalbos vienetų analizė nebuvo atliekama. Šiame darbe siekiama palyginti lingvistinio tipo kalbos vienetų gebėjimą modeliuoti šneką ir parodyti, kad kalbos vienetų analizė siūlo alternatyvius fonemai ir kontekstinei fonemai kalbos vienetus. Darbe pasiūlyta metodika mišriam skiemenų ir fonemų akustiniam modeliavimui, naujas kalbos vienetas – pseudo-skiemuo; technologijos atskirų kalbos vienetų akustiniam modeliavimui (schemos, įrankiai, rekomendacijos). Eksperimentiniams tyrimams atlikti paruoštas izoliuotų žodžių garsynas ir sukurtos dvi ištisinės šnekos garsyno LRN versijos. Ištyrus izoliuotų žodžių atpažinimą, akustinius modelius konstruojant žodžiams, nustatyta, kad modelių mokymo aibės dydis, akustinių modelių mokymo aibės turinys daro įtaką šnekos atpažinimo tikslumui. Pateikiamos rekomendacijos akustiniam modeliavimui žodžių pagrindu. Ištyrus izoliuotų žodžių atpažinimą, akustinius modelius konstruojant žodžiams, skiemenims ir fonemoms, gauti rezultatai 98 ±1,8 % tikslumu siejami su skiemens tipo kalbos vienetais. Dėl skiemenų akustinio modeliavimo... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / This paper is devoted to an acoustic modelling of Lithuanian speech recognition. Word-, syllable-, contextual syllable-, phoneme- and contextual phoneme-based speech recognition was investigated. Investigations were performed for isolated words and continuous speech. The most popular sub-word units in Lithuanian speech recognition are phonemes and contextual phonemes, and research on other sub-word units is omitted. This paper aims to compare capacity of linguistic sub-word units to model speech and to demonstrate that investigation of sub-word units suggest using alternative sub-word units to phoneme and contextual phoneme. The dissertation proposes a new methodology for acoustic modelling of syllables and phonemes, new sub-word unit – pseudo-syllable; technologies for acoustic modelling of separate sub-word units, including developed schemes, tools and recommendations. Speech corpus of isolated words was prepared and two versions of corpus of continuous speech LRN were developed for experimental research. Investigation of recognition of isolated words and construction of acoustic models for words showed that a size of training set of acoustic models, a content of training set in regard to number of speakers have an influence on speech recognition accuracy. The recommendations for word-based acoustic modelling are given. Investigation of recognition of isolated words and construction of acoustic models for words, syllables and phonemes showed that the best recognition... [to full text]

This paper is devoted to an acoustic modelling of Lithuanian speech recognition. Word-, syllable-, contextual syllable-, phoneme- and contextual phoneme-based speech recognition was investigated. Investigations were performed for isolated words and continuous speech. The most popular sub-word units in Lithuanian speech recognition are phonemes and contextual phonemes, and research on other sub-word units is omitted. This paper aims to compare capacity of linguistic sub-word units to model speech and to demonstrate that investigation of sub-word units suggest using alternative sub-word units to phoneme and contextual phoneme. The dissertation proposes a new methodology for acoustic modelling of syllables and phonemes, new sub-word unit – pseudo-syllable; technologies for acoustic modelling of separate sub-word units, including developed schemes, tools and recommendations. Speech corpus of isolated words was prepared and two versions of corpus of continuous speech LRN were developed for experimental research. Investigation of recognition of isolated words and construction of acoustic models for words showed that a size of training set of acoustic models, a content of training set in regard to number of speakers have an influence on speech recognition accuracy. The recommendations for word-based acoustic modelling are given. Investigation of recognition of isolated words and construction of acoustic models for words, syllables and phonemes showed that the best recognition... [to full text] / Darbas „Lietuvių šnekos atpažinimo akustinis modeliavimas“ yra skirtas lietuvių šnekos atpažinimo akustiniam modeliavimui. Darbe buvo tirtas žodžiais, skiemenimis, kontekstiniais skiemenimis, fonemomis ir kontekstinėmis fonemomis grįstas šnekos atpažinimas. Tyrimai atlikti izoliuotiems žodžiams ir ištisinei šnekai. Iki šiol lietuvių šnekos atpažinime populiariausi kalbos vienetai buvo fonema ir kontekstinė fonema, o kitų kalbos vienetų analizė nebuvo atliekama. Šiame darbe siekiama palyginti lingvistinio tipo kalbos vienetų gebėjimą modeliuoti šneką ir parodyti, kad kalbos vienetų analizė siūlo alternatyvius fonemai ir kontekstinei fonemai kalbos vienetus. Darbe pasiūlyta metodika mišriam skiemenų ir fonemų akustiniam modeliavimui, naujas kalbos vienetas – pseudo-skiemuo; technologijos atskirų kalbos vienetų akustiniam modeliavimui (schemos, įrankiai, rekomendacijos). Eksperimentiniams tyrimams atlikti paruoštas izoliuotų žodžių garsynas ir sukurtos dvi ištisinės šnekos garsyno LRN versijos. Ištyrus izoliuotų žodžių atpažinimą, akustinius modelius konstruojant žodžiams, nustatyta, kad modelių mokymo aibės dydis, akustinių modelių mokymo aibės turinys daro įtaką šnekos atpažinimo tikslumui. Pateikiamos rekomendacijos akustiniam modeliavimui žodžių pagrindu. Ištyrus izoliuotų žodžių atpažinimą, akustinius modelius konstruojant žodžiams, skiemenims ir fonemoms, gauti rezultatai 98 ±1,8 % tikslumu siejami su skiemens tipo kalbos vienetais. Dėl skiemenų akustinio modeliavimo... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]

本篇論文是針對六位以台灣華語為母語的嬰幼兒，採長期觀察的方式，研究 台灣華語字彙產製的音韻變化性(phonological variability)，並詳細描述單音節詞和雙音節詞之中音節類型出現的頻率、變化性、以及代換模式。本研究同時要用Jakoson (1968)的音節標記理論來檢驗各種音節類型中的共通性。 本研究一共觀察了有六位年齡在十一個月至兩歲的嬰幼兒長達一年。以兩個 禮拜一次的頻率收集嬰幼兒和母親之間的自然對話，並利用錄製回來的影音檔做 譯寫和分析。 結果顯示小朋友的音韻變化是很常見的，且是有規則可循的。小朋友的音韻變異量的高峰(variability peak)會出現在當小朋友的音韻發展從一個階段進展到另一個階段的時候，而本篇論文顯示與當小朋友由單字期(one-word stage)進展到雙字期(two-word stage)以及字彙量有大幅上升的時期符合。華語音節習得的部分，結果顯示CV 是頻率最高、變化性最低，且最常被拿來替換的音節類型。CVG 也是頻率高的音節類型之一，但他的變化性也很高，主要是因為韻尾省略 (coda-dropping)的現象在小朋友的早期發展很常見的關係，所以CVG 雖然頻率高但是變化性也很高而且是最常被取代的音節類型之一。 最後，將所有的結果拿來檢驗Jakoson (1968)的音節標記理論，結果發現頻 率高以及變化性低的音節類型都是無標記(unmarked)的音節類型，相反的頻率低 以及變化性高的音節類型則都是有標記的(marked)音節類型，此外小朋友會用無 標記的音節類型來取代有標記的音節類型。 / The purpose of this study is to discuss the issue concerning phonological variability of children acquiring Taiwan Mandarin. Two aspects are including in the following: the phonological variability of words and the syllable types composed the words. The overall variability pattern, the frequency, variability rate, and substitution pattern of syllable type were analyzed. Six participants are investigated in the study, aged between 0;11 to 2;0. A longitudinal observation study is conducted by the author and the research team. The results showed that phonological variability is common in early phonological development. The increase in variability reflects the reorganization of phonological system, where children started to produce two-word utterances and the amount of different words was increased. As for the syllable type analysis, CV presented the highest in frequency, the lowest in variability rate, and also was used to replace other syllable type more often. CVG was one of the most frequently used syllable type; however, the variability rate of CVG was also high. The reason may due to the fact coda-dropping is a very common phenomenon in children’s development. The results in this study were examined in the markedness theory of syllable proposed by Jakobson (1968). The results showed that syllable types with higher frequency and lower variability rates were unmarked syllable types, while syllable types with lower frequency and higher variability rates were marked syllable types. Furthermore, children tended to use a more unmarked syllable to replace a more marked syllable.

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Orientador: Gladis Massini-Cagliari / Banca: Gisela Collischonn / Banca: Flaviane Romani Fernandes Svartman / Banca: Rosane de Andrade Berlinck / Banca: Marcia Valeria Zamboni Gobbi / Resumo: Esta tese de doutorado tem por objetivo confirmar a possibilidade de uma conexão entre a música e a linguística no desenvolvimento de uma nova metodologia para o estudo da prosódia de línguas mortas ou de períodos anteriores de línguas vivas. Tal metodologia baseia-se, resumidamente, na observação das proeminências musicais de textos poéticos musicados, na observação das proeminências linguísticas do texto dos poemas, junto com a observação da estrutura métrica dos mesmos. Sendo assim, partiu-se da ideia de que o tempo forte do compasso musical (o primeiro tempo) marca preferencialmente uma proeminência no nível linguístico, podendo servir de base para a localização das sílabas tônicas das palavras do texto, o que poderia fornecer pistas para o estudo do acento lexical de palavras em línguas que já não possuem falantes, nem registros orais. O corpus utilizado na pesquisa que sustenta essa tese constitui-se de um recorte das cem primeiras Cantigas de Santa Maria de Afonso X, tomadas a partir das suas versões transcritas por Anglés (1943) para a notação musical atual. Os dados foram coletados por meio da elaboração de fichas de análise, as quais mostram, de maneira clara, as coincidências entre proeminências nos níveis musical e linguístico. Vale ressaltar que foram coletadas trinta e oito mil e dezoito palavras, por meio das quais foi possível analisar a atribuição do acento lexical nas três pautas prosódicas existentes no português arcaico (oxítonas, paroxítonas e proparoxítonas), além e abrirmos uma discussão a respeito da tonicidade de monossílabos e o status prosódico de clíticos; também foi possível analisar a ocorrência do acento secundário, uma das maiores contribuições deste trabalho para a descrição da prosódia dessa língua. Dialogando com os trabalhos de... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This thesis aims to confirm the possibility of a connection between Music and Linguistics on the development of a new methodology applied to the study of the prosody of dead languages or ancient periods of living languages. This methodology is based on the observation of musical prominences of poetic texts with musical notation, and on the observation of linguistic prominences of the texts, considering their metrical structure. There is a great probability of the musical stresses (the first beat of the measure) to coincide with the stressed syllable of the words. This fact provides clues for the study of lexical stress in past periods of the language. The corpus used for this research is composed by the first hundred Cantigas de Santa Maria, which were compiled by Alfonso X and transcribed for the contemporary musical notation by Anglés (1943). The data were collected by means of the elaboration of boards which show the coincidences between prominences at musical and linguistic levels. It is important to point out that thirty eight thousand and eighteen words were collected; this fact enabled the analysis of the attribution of the lexical stress in Medieval Portuguese. Moreover it was possible to discuss the prominence grade of monosyllables and to analyze the occurrence of secondary stresses, maybe the largest contribution of this research in the description of the prosody of that language. Dialoguing with previous researches such as Massini-Cagliari (1995, 1999, 2005) and Costa (2006) - regarding the attribution of the lexical stress in Medieval Portuguese - and Collishonn (1994) - regarding the secondary stress in Brazilian Portuguese - we could verify that the methodology developed in this thesis brought significant contributions for the description of the Medieval Portuguese phonological component as it allowed the analysis of... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

This work has investigated the variation of the final unstressed nasal diphthong from the speech of people who live in Uberlândia MG. The main focus of this research has set itself between the full realization of the diphthong (viagem [viaʒẽj̃] ) and the reduced realization (viagi[viaʒi]). Using the statistic program GoldVarb X helpthe data measurement was made. After the description and the data analysis, observing frequency and relative importance, as generated by this program, a phonological analysis of the results was undertaken. The importance of this research is in the fact of its contribution to linguistic studies, when describing a variable phenomenonrank in the Brazilian Portuguese, with a specific region data, TriânguloMineiro, where Uberlândia is situated the city where the data has been collected. Finally, as theoretical support, we have been based on Battisti (1997; 2002), Bisol (1989; 1999), Câmara Jr. ([1970] 2008), Bopp da Silva (2005), Labov ([1972] 2008) and Selkirk (1982). The program GoldVarb X has selected the school level, vowel type, grammatical type and age groupas the processsuppliers of the final unstressed nasal diphthong reduction. The theoretical model of Selkirk (1982) was crucial for the understanding of descriptive and representational constitution of the after reduction syllable structure of the diphthong. / Neste trabalho, investigou-se a variação do ditongo nasal átono final com base nos dados de fala de indivíduos residentes na cidade de Uberlândia-MG. O foco central da pesquisa fixouse entre a realização plena do ditongo (viagem [viaʒẽj̃] ) e a realização reduzida (viagi[viaʒi]). A quantificação dos dados foi realizada com o auxílio do programa estatístico GoldVarb X. Após descrição e análise dos dados, observando-se frequência e peso relativo, conforme gerado pelo programa foi empreendida uma análise fonológica dos resultados. A relevância desta pesquisa está no fato de ela contribuir com os estudos linguísticos, ao descrever um fenômeno variável patente no português brasileiro, com dados de uma região específica, qual seja o Triângulo Mineiro, na qual se situa Uberlândia cidade onde foram coletados os dados. Por fim, como suporte teórico, respaldamo-nos em Battisti (1997; 2002), Bisol (1989; 1999), Câmara Jr. ([1970] 2008), Bopp da Silva (2005), Labov ([1972] 2008) e Selkirk (1982). O programa GoldVarb X selecionou como favorecedores do processo de redução do ditongo nasal átono final, o grau de escolaridade,tipo de vogal, classe gramatical e faixa etária. O modelo teórico de Selkirk (1982) foi fundamental para compreendermos a constituição descritiva e representacional da estrutura silábica pós-redução do ditongo. / Mestre em Estudos Linguísticos

Personal characteristics of speech rhythm in Russian newsreading Bc. Irena Čížková Abstract An issue of individual rhythmic characteristics of particular 5 native speakers of the Russian language, newsreaders from the BBC, is described in this thesis. A research of the given 5 speech recordings was conducted based on the academic concepts created by Ramus, Mehler and Nespor, and by Low and Grabe and also by Dellwo, so through a speech rhythm research based on rhythm correlates that are related to vocalic and intervocalic intervals. The recordings were processed in an analyting program called Praat and the extracted results were then evaluated in a statistical processor called STATISTICA. These materials were used for further analysis. The recordings were analysed based on several parameters: %V (proportion of vocalic intervals in one breath group), ∆C and ∆V (standard deviation of the vocalic and consonantal interval duration), PVI-V, PVI-C (Pairwise Variability Index of the vocalic and consonantal interval duration), Varco V and Varco C (variation coefficient of the vocalic and consonantal interval duration) and the difference between duration of stressed and unstressed vowels. Three parameters that were the most successful from the speakers' ability to differentiate point of view were selected through an...