Project description
Investigating basic building blocks of spoken Kazakh and Italian
Spoken language is often studied through the lens of written language, which can overlook key features of speech. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the SPEAK project will focus on intonation units, namely small segments of speech that organise spoken discourse. Researchers will explore how they connect to syntax and communication in Kazakh and Italian. Combining experimental methods with corpus analysis, SPEAK will help uncover how spoken language is produced and perceived. Project findings should help further advance speech technologies.
Objective
SPEAK aims to establish the intonation unit as a basic unit of organization of spoken discourse. It does so by exploring the nature of the relationship between intonation units, syntactic constituents, and communicative units in Kazakh and Italian conversation. To achieve this goal, the project combines corpus analysis and experimental methods that approach the main question from the point of view of both production and perception. This project is innovative in that it represents the first study of the intonation units that systematically addresses the issue of written language bias by employing data from the only genre that is cross-linguistically available, namely conversation, and building an explicit comparison between two languages with different traditions of written production (Kazakh and Italian). It is timely given the increasing amount of economic, human, and environmental resources devoted to the development of AI products for the treatment of spoken language. It is impactful insofar as its insights can contribute to the understanding of grammar representation in the human mind and to the technical application that can be leveraged for the development of speech technologies. The study will be conducted at the University of Bologna (Italy) under the supervision of Prof. Caterina Mauri, expert in typological comparison, spoken corpus design, and syntactic analysis, with a secondment of 2 months at Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan), where the fellow will be trained in the analysis of Kazakh grammar, perfect their language knowledge, and conduct part of the data collection.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01
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40126 Bologna
Italy
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