Phonological Analysis of Indigenous Languages of Eastern Bolivia

玻利维亚东部土著语言的音系分析

• 批准号: 9603215
• 负责人: Megan Crowhurst
• 金额: $ 14.77万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-05-01 至 2000-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9603215&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Phonological; Analysis; Indigenous; Languages; Eastern

This NSF grant will fund the PI's work in documenting and analyzing the sound patterns of indigenous languages of Bolivia's eastern lowland. This region, also called Amazonia, is a rich and ethnically diverse area where more than twenty-five distinct indigenous groups engage in an ongoing struggle to preserve the routine, every-day use of their ancestral languages. To this end, recent years have witnessed internationally-supported efforts to develop bilingual education programs in Bolivia in which children will be educated partly in Spanish (the geographically dominant language) and partly in the traditional indian language of their communities. Leaders of such programs have sought to involve North American and European linguists as consultants in ongoing efforts to create linguistically informed materials (such as, grammars, dictionaries, readers) that can be used to educate children in indigenous languages. In exchange for our labor as consultants, the PI for this project and other linguists are gaining the opportunity to study a variety of indigenous languages for purposes that benefit the North American scholarly community. As most languages of eastern Bolivia are understudied to date, the detailed information to be acquired as part of this project is expected to contribute to linguists' understanding of what human languages are like from a structural point of view; the similarities and differences that exist between languages spoken in diverse regions of the world; and what this information might tell us about the cognitive underpinnings of our linguistic systems. The PI's role in the ongoing research just described is tied to her experience as a phonologist--a linguist who analyzes aspects of sound structure in human languages, from the basic inventories of consonants and vowels used, to the stress and intonation contours imposed upon them in running speech. The funds awarded by NSF will be used to cover costs associated with travel to Bolivia for stu dy and data acquisition; to purchase equipment needed to analyze sound structures in these languages; to employ a graduate student at the University of North Carolina to assist in this analysis (a valuable aspect of that student's training); for travel to scholarly conferences at which the results of this work may be presented; and to assist in preparing work for publication in scholarly journals and in magazines more accessible to the general public, such as Science.

国家科学基金会的这笔赠款将资助PI记录和分析玻利维亚东部低地土著语言的声音模式的工作。 这一地区也被称为亚马逊，是一个富饶而种族多样的地区，超过25个不同的土著群体正在进行持续的斗争，以保护其祖先语言的日常使用。 为此目的，近年来在国际支持下，努力在玻利维亚发展双语教育方案，其中儿童将部分以西班牙语（地理上占主导地位的语言）接受教育，部分以其社区的传统印第安语接受教育。 这些项目的领导者试图让北美和欧洲的语言学家作为顾问参与正在进行的努力，以创建语言学方面的信息材料（如语法，词典，读者），可用于用土著语言教育儿童。 作为我们作为顾问的劳动的交换，这个项目的PI和其他语言学家正在获得机会，研究各种土著语言的目的，有利于北美学术界。 由于迄今为止对玻利维亚东部的大多数语言研究不足，作为该项目一部分而获得的详细资料预计将有助于语言学家从结构角度了解人类语言的情况;世界不同地区所讲语言之间存在的相似性和差异;以及这些信息可能告诉我们关于我们语言系统的认知基础的信息。 PI在刚刚描述的正在进行的研究中的作用与她作为语音学家的经验有关-一位分析人类语言中声音结构方面的语言学家，从所使用的辅音和元音的基本库存，到在连续讲话中强加给它们的重音和语调轮廓。 NSF提供的资金将用于支付前往玻利维亚进行研究和数据采集的相关费用;购买分析这些语言的声音结构所需的设备;聘请北卡罗来纳州大学的一名研究生协助进行分析（学生培训的一个有价值的方面）;参加学术会议的旅费，在学术会议上可能会提出这项工作的结果;并协助准备在学术期刊和公众更容易获得的杂志（如《科学》）上发表的工作。