ABSTRACT

A metric method to numerically measure phonetic and phonemic distances or contrasts, between speech sounds, is put forward. The feature values of the compared phones taken from the standard IPA charts are treated as independent parameters that give rise to corresponding Euclidean distances. As an illustration, the general phone set is mapped to Ukrainian phonemes. The proposed model agrees well with the historical linguistic facts and experimental phonetic data. The described approach may find its due applications in various fields of linguistics and speech technologies, including historical and typological linguistics, language acquisition, phonetic studies, computational phonology, machine translation, information retrieval, and text-to-speech conversion.

摘要

提出了一种数值测量语音和语音之间的语音和音位距离或对比的度量方法。从标准 IPA 图表中获取的比较音素的特征值被视为独立参数，这些参数会产生相应的欧几里得距离。例如，通用音素集映射到乌克兰语音素。所提出的模型与历史语言事实和实验语音数据非常吻合。所描述的方法可能会在语言学和语音技术的各个领域找到应有的应用，包括历史和类型语言学、语言习得、语音研究、计算音韵学、机器翻译、信息检索和文本到语音转换。