6.541J課程探討了自然語言中結構上的特性,並特別強調了聲響樣式。課題包含了:字彙的表達、產生語音的生理學、語音發音學、產生語音的聲學理論、以聲學和發音學來描述語音的特徵和說話的韻律性、對語言的感知力、使用字彙和語音產生與規劃的模型、使用機器來辨識和產生語音的應用,以及探討語音的錯亂。
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6.541J surveys the structural properties of natural languages, with special emphasis on the sound pattern. Topics covered include: representation of the lexicon; physiology of speech production; articulatory phonetics; acoustical theory of speech production; acoustical and articulatory descriptions of phonetic features and of prosodic aspects of speech; perception of speech; models of lexical access and of speech production and planning; and applications to recognition and generation of speech by machine, and to the study of speech disorders.