Linguistic Change and Diffusion in the Mid-Atlantic Region

大西洋中部地区的语言变化和传播

• 批准号: 0002225
• 负责人: William Labov
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-01 至 2003-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0002225&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Linguistic; Change; Diffusion; Mid; Atlantic

The research project will study the diffusion of a series of linguistic changes across the Mid-Atlantic region from New York City to Baltimore. The Atlas of North American English shows that this region exhibits many common features and changes in progress: the lexical split of short /a/ and /o/ into tense and lax classes; the raising of long open /oh/ to high and mid position, the lowering of short /e/ and the raising of checked /ey/, and the vocalization of /l/. Sociolinguistic studies will be carried out within previously studied urbanized areas to provide real-time confirmation of reports of change in progress. To study geographic diffusion from these centers, the project will use short sociolinguistic interviews in 60 smaller cities and towns. The goal is to discover which patterns of diffusion--hierarchical or contagious transmission-are characteristic of which linguistic variables as changes spread from one community to another. Data on the geographic distribution of these changes, coupled with information on patterns of mobility and migration, will help resolve the question of how social change is coupled with linguistic change.

该研究项目将研究一系列语言变化在从纽约到巴尔的摩的大西洋中部地区的传播情况。北美英语地图集显示，这一地区呈现出许多共同的特征和发展变化：短/a/和/o/在词汇上分裂为紧张和松散的类别；长开/oh/上升到高位和中位；短/e/降低，Checked/ey/提高，/L/发声。将在以前研究过的城市化地区内进行社会语言学研究，以实时确认进展中的变化报告。为了研究这些中心的地理扩散，该项目将在60个较小的城镇进行简短的社会语言学访谈。目标是发现当变化从一个社区传播到另一个社区时，哪种扩散模式--等级传播或传染性传播--是哪种语言变量的特征。关于这些变化的地理分布的数据，加上关于流动和移徙模式的信息，将有助于解决社会变化如何与语言变化相结合的问题。