| Abstract [eng] |
Abstract The doctoral thesis “Systematic Morphonological Analysis of English Long and Short Vowel Oppositions” belongs to the domain of structural linguistics. The thesis provides a systematic structural and functional analysis of morphonological long and short uː-ʊ, iː-i, ɔː-ɒ, ɑː-ʌ, ɜː-e(ə) vowel oppositions determining their morphonological structure and by this creating the preliminaries to mathematical expression for automatic speech recognition. The object of the thesis is 4,857 long and short vowel opposition pairs taken from the created database of 105,846 words based on Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 2004 (LDOCE). The morphonological structure of words having vowel oppositions are analyzed on the following parameters: the constituent parts of words, the root derivational and inflectional morphemes, the number of syllables, the type of syllables, the syllabic structure of word-forms, the initial and final series of consonants. In generalizing, consolidated structural formulae of syllabic structures are made with the view of their future use in the algorithms for language synthesizers. The grammatical, lexical, and lexical-grammatical meanings are elucidated in vowel opposition pairs. Morphonological decomposition of words serves for scientific educational and practical purposes. This systematic academic analysis of vowel oppositions is beneficial for the development of computer programmes that relate human speech to the machine speech. The programmes of speech synthesizer may use the results of the present research because they employ decomposition and syllabification of the text. |
