Objective
Spontaneous (unprepared) speech is the most natural form of communication. The descriptions of sound systems are generally obtained on the basis of prepared speech. The aim of this project is to determine the phonetic differences between read and spontaneous speech of typologically unrelated languages and define which of these features are universal and which are language dependent.
Changes in speech style result in changes of phonetic characteristics - segmental, suprasegmental and intonational. Prosodic properties are likely to undergo changes in the first place, and consequently under their influence, changes of phonetic characteristics of sounds (co-articulation, reduction) take place, leading to allophonic variations of speech sounds. The study of typologically unrelated languages where segmental and suprasegmental characteristics are in different linguistic relations, is of great interest. Russian, Finnish and Dutch belong to such languages, which differ in prosody, sound systems and means for conveying into national contrasts. Russian, for example, is characterised by strong modifications of sounds in speech flow (co-articulation, reduction). In Finnish quantity (duration of sounds) is phonologically relevant and reduction of speech sounds in the speech flow is minimised; into national characteristics do not seem to be very prominent and have therefore been studied insufficiently. The Dutch is characterised by rich intonation system, and it has a lot of co-articulation and reduction phenomena in speech.
The main objective of this project is to investigate language-independent and language-specific characteristics of spontaneous speech in Russian, Finnish and Dutch.
For the purpose of this study
1) recordings of spontaneous and read speech made from Finnish, Dutch and Russian native speakers will be digitised, annotated, labelled and organised into a database of spontaneous speech of Russian, Finnish and Dutch;
2) a general formal classification of intonation patterns of Russian, Finnish and Dutch will be worked out;
3) a common transcription will be developed and used for the description of prosody of the sound stream in typologically unrelated languages;
4) the peculiarities of the relation between word and sentence prosody in Russian, Finnish and Dutch will be investigated;
5) formally similar, but functionally different spontaneous speech properties (segmental and prosodic) of Finnish, Russian and Dutch will be described and compared;
6) the database of spontaneous and read speech of typologically unrelated languages will be recorded on CD-ROMs and thus made available for a wide range of speech researchers.
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40351 Jyväskylä
Finland
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