A Sociolinguistic Study of Potential Bidialectalism

本项目通过对第二方言习得的社会语言学分析来探讨双方言的可能性。社会语言学对双语现象进行了研究，为语言教师模型提供了重要的修正；然而，双方言主义回避了实证社会语言学研究。文体转换在社会语言学中得到了很好的研究，双方言主义在教育和语言病理学领域也得到了很多讨论，但没有语言学研究涉及到文体转换何时结束，双方言主义何时开始，双方言主义的原则是什么，或者双方言主义是否在人类身上是可能的。在一项实证调查中，本项目旨在评估方言习得，以确定双方言的边界及其对语言能力的影响。在这个项目中，将对来自南方方言地区的20名发言者进行访谈，并将其引入北方方言地区，以收集他们的方言实时变化的数据。这个项目关注的是说话者如何以及是否将他们的方言特征作为离散的集合组织起来，或者他们的方言特征是否在生产中融合在一起。对新出现的数据应用定性-描述性和定量-变异分析模型，并通过分析主观说话人识别任务获得的数据来实现语言变异的客观分析。此外，在不同的言语情境中收集的数据将被用于方言习得过程中说话人内部变化的研究。该项目提供了关于语言能力如何针对第二方言的功能，语言能力中社会语言学变异的轨迹以及双方言的语言和社会边界的重要见解。

This project investigates the possibility of bidialectalism through sociolinguistic analysis of second dialect acquisition. Sociolinguistics has studied bilingualism, providing important revisions to models of the language faculty; however, bidialectalism has avoided empirical sociolinguistic investigation. Style-shifting is well researched in sociolinguistics, and bidialectalism has been much discussed in education and speech pathology circles, but no linguistic study has taken up the question of when style-shifting may end and bidialectalism begin, what the principles governing bidialectalism might be, or if bidialectalism is even humanly possible. In an empirical investigation, this project aims to assess dialect acquisition to determine the boundaries of bidialectalism and its implications for the language faculty. In this project, twenty speakers from a southern dialect region introduced into a northern dialect area will be interviewed to gather data on real-time changes in their idiolects. The project focuses on how and if the speakers organize their production of dialect features as discrete sets or whether their dialect features blend in production. Qualitative-descriptive and quantitative-variationist analytical models are applied to the emerging data, and the objective analysis of language variation is implemented by the analysis of data obtained from subjective speaker identification tasks. In addition, data gathered in a variety of speech situations will be utilized in the examination of intraspeaker variation in the dialect acquisition process. This project provides important insights about how the language faculty functions in targeting a second dialect, the locus of sociolinguistic variation in the language faculty, and the linguistic and social boundaries of bidialectalism.