从声音到语言英文版.pptVIP

From Sounds to Language CS 4706 Julia Hirschberg Who studies speech sounds? Phoneticians: What distinctive sounds do particular languages have? How are they produced? Phonologists: What is the underlying theory of speech sound? What explains how particular sounds vary in context? Acoustic phoneticians, speech engineers, speech pathologists, lexicographers, singers,… How do we represent speech sounds? Regular orthography Special-purpose symbol sets Abstract sound classes based upon sound similarities What sounds are shared by languages X and Y? What sounds are unique to particular languages?