Dissertation:  A Phonological Description of Negerhollands
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{'SignBlockName': 'Paul G. Chapin'}
This is an award for the purchase of a MacSpeech Lab I to                       supplement the capacity of a Macintosh SE to do acoustic                        analysis.  It consists of a 12-bit MacAdios digitizer, a TTE                    anti-aliasing filter, a microphone and a speaker.  With this                    equipment acoustic analysis will be carried out on the recorded                 speech forms of the last speaker (now deceased) of the creole                   language Negerhollands.  There has been scholarly interest in the               language (spoken in what are now the U.S. Virgin Islands) since                 the late 18th century, yet there is no satisfactory phonological                description of the extensive variation reported for the language.               Preliminary investigations suggest that the free alternation of                 forms in Negerhollands is comprehensible when analyzed within a                 quantitative paradigm.  Acoustic measurement with the new                       equipment will yield a precise description of the phonetic                      characteristics of these variable patterns.
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{'Name': 'University of Pennsylvania', 'CityName': 'Philadelphia', 'ZipCode': '191046205', 'PhoneNumber': '2158987293', 'StreetAddress': 'Research Services', 'CountryName': 'United States', 'StateName': 'Pennsylvania', 'StateCode': 'PA'}
{'Code': '1311', 'Text': 'LINGUISTICS'}
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