The Postlexical Prosody of Central Alaskan Yupik

阿拉斯加中部尤皮克语的后词汇韵律

• 批准号: 9511856
• 负责人: Anthony Woodbury
• 金额: $ 9.51万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-08-01 至 1998-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9511856&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Postlexical; Prosody; Central; Alaskan; Yupik

This is a project to study the phonetic and phonological elements of Central Alaskan Yupik postlexical prosody; their distribution with respect to each other and with respect to independently motivated syntactic and discourse structures; and their meaning, i.e., their pragmatic value and their use in framing naturally occurring speech of various kinds. Project work involves: (a) two 3-week field trips to Chevak, Alaska, a village where a particular dialect of Central Alaskan Yupik is spoken, in order to construct and record sets of utterances in which potentially independent determinants of postlexical prosody are systematically varied, and to examine prosodic usage in already-existing recordings from Chevak of oral literature and other speech; (b) instrumental and other linguistic analysis of both elicited and naturalistic recordings at the P.I.'s home base; and (c) a period of writing leading to a book on the project's topic. The project is expected to have significance for (a) the documentation and description of Central Alaskan Yupik, a language that is rapidly becoming moribund as fewer and fewer children learn it; (b) the theory of postlexical prosody, by contributing a case study and by exploring the idea that syntax, discourse structure, and interpretation directly determine the distributions of individual prosodic elements; (c) prosodic methodology, by establishing the importance of studying distribution and use side by side, using quantitative data from both repetitive elicitation and natural discourse; and (d) the promotion (via the foregoing) of research on a wide range of languages, especially those studied in the 'field' and faced with imminent extinction.

这是一个研究阿拉斯加中部尤皮克词后韵律的语音和音韵元素的项目；它们相对于彼此以及相对于独立动机的句法和话语结构的分布；以及它们的意义，即它们的实用价值以及它们在构建各种自然发生的语音中的用途。 项目工作包括：(a) 对阿拉斯加的 Chevak 进行两次为期三周的实地考察，该村庄讲的是阿拉斯加中部尤皮克语的一种特定方言，目的是构建和记录话语集，其中词汇后韵律的潜在独立决定因素系统地变化，并检查 Chevak 现有的口头文学和其他语音录音中的韵律用法； (b) 对 P.I. 总部的引出录音和自然录音进行工具和其他语言分析； (c) 一段写作时间，最终出版了一本关于该项目主题的书。 该项目预计将在以下方面具有重要意义：(a) 中阿拉斯加尤皮克语的记录和描述，随着学习这种语言的儿童越来越少，这种语言正在迅速走向消亡； (b) 词后韵律理论，通过提供案例研究并探索句法、话语结构和解释直接决定单个韵律元素的分布的观点； (c) 韵律方法，通过使用来自重复引出和自然话语的定量数据，确定同时研究分布和使用的重要性； (d) 促进（通过前述）对多种语言的研究，特别是那些在“领域”研究并面临迫在眉睫的灭绝的语言。