语言声学的进展

本文涉及语言声学的语音学研究、文语转换技术、语音识别技术及自然语言处理等方面，简要介绍了有关汉语在前三方面的进展和发展方向；重点介绍了面向整个自然语言理解处理的新理论一概念层次网络（HNC）理论的主要内容及其进展，试图在理论层面上给出HNC理论的基本概貌。

Advances in linguistic acoustics

This paper is involved in aspects of linguistic acoustics, including phonetics, text to speech, speech recognition and natural language processing(NLP). A brief introduction of the former three aspects about Chinese is presented on the progresses and directions of development. Emphases is then laid to present the novel theory of HNC which is oriented to every phase of NLU, with regard to its main contents and progresses. A notional sketch of HNC is attempted.