MRPG: Syntactic and Semantic Patterns in Child African American English

MRPG：非洲裔美国儿童英语的句法和语义模式

• 批准号: 0003158
• 负责人: Lisa Green
• 金额: $ 1.8万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-07-01 至 2002-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0003158&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRPG; Syntactic; Semantic; Patterns; Child

Adolescent and adult African American English (AAE) is characterized by well-defined syntactic and semantic forms. However, the stages of development in which child AAE speakers acquire these patterns have not been identified. As a result, thorough descriptions of the speech of normally developing AAE speakers are not available, though some researchers have considered the use of a particular feature in the language of five and six year old AAE speakers (Stockman and Vaughn-Cook 1981; Wyatt 1991, 1995; Jackson 1995). The planning activities are designed to lead to the development of a protocol, including elicitation tasks, that will be used in gathering information to write a descriptive analysis of the syntactic and semantic patterns in the grammars of three, four and five year old AAE speakers in Lake Arthur, Louisiana; Austin, Texas; and Dallas, Texas. The research to be conducted following the planning activities will provide data about the overall system of AAE, with a focus on areas such as tense and aspect marking, the system of existential marking, patterns in negation constructions and strategies of question formation. By analyzing AAE within a theoretical framework, it becomes possible to move beyond discussions in which the variety is compared to mainstream English, thus showing how AAE patterns with respect to other languages.

青少年和成年非裔美国人英语（AAE）的特点是明确的句法和语义形式。然而，儿童AAE扬声器获得这些模式的发展阶段尚未确定。因此，尽管一些研究人员考虑了5岁和6岁的AAE使用者语言中的一个特定特征的使用情况，但对正常发展的AAE使用者的语言的全面描述是不可用的（Stockman和Vaughn-Cook 1981; Wyatt 1991，1995;杰克逊1995）。规划活动旨在导致协议的发展，包括启发任务，将用于收集信息，以编写在亚瑟湖，路易斯安那州，奥斯汀，得克萨斯州和达拉斯，得克萨斯州的三，四，五岁的AAE扬声器语法的句法和语义模式的描述性分析。规划活动之后进行的研究将提供关于AAE整体系统的数据，重点是时态和体标记、存在标记系统、否定结构模式和问题形成策略等领域。通过在理论框架内分析AAE，可以超越将AAE与主流英语进行比较的讨论，从而显示AAE模式与其他语言的关系。