Colorado Field Research for Linguistic Atlas of the Western States

在William Kretzschmar博士的指导下，Lamont Antieau先生将为他的博士论文收集语言数据。他将对美国西部英语进行方言学研究，特别是科罗拉多州，因为科罗拉多州是落基山地区的文化中心。该项目将邀请该州不同地区有代表性的演讲者发表演讲，然后分析其中的语言形式。方言地理学家使用的工具组合将为研究提供信息(例如，更传统的方法，如地图，以及更新的创新，如计算机和统计测试)。这些较新的工具将使研究人员能够检查包括句法在内的所有语言水平。该项目具有广泛的意义。由于收集的演讲将被转录，并通过语言地图集网站(http://us.english.uga.edu)，)向公众提供，研究人员将能够使用这些数据进行广泛的语言变化调查。这些措施包括将为该项目收集的数据与较旧的数据集进行比较，以及研究科罗拉多州与美国其他地区之间的方言差异以及科罗拉多州语料库内的差异。采访将引出物体的名称，因为这是一个地区之间有很大差异的地区。因此，这些数据也可能对人类学家和历史学家有用。除了该项目将教给我们什么关于科罗拉多州的语言，以及它与美国其他地方的语言相比如何，这项研究还将有助于更好地理解方言，并为语言和文化的理论模型提供参考。

Under the direction of Dr. William Kretzschmar, Mr. Lamont Antieau will collect linguistic data for his doctoral dissertation. He will conduct dialectology research on Western American English with particular focus on Colorado due to its status as the cultural center of the Rocky Mountain region. The project will elicit speech from representative speakers of various parts of the state and then analyze the linguistic forms found therein. A combination of tools used by dialect geographers will inform the research (e.g., more traditional methods like maps, as well as more recent innovations like computers and statistical testing). The newer tools will enable researchers to examine all levels of language, including syntax.The project has broad significance. Since the collected speech will be transcribed and made publicly available via the Linguistic Atlas website (http://us.english.uga.edu), researchers will be able to use the data for a wide range of investigations into language change. These include comparing the data collected for this project to older data sets, and studying dialectal variation between Colorado and other regions in the United States as well as variation within the Colorado corpus. The interviews will elicit names for objects because this is an area in which there is a great deal of variation between regions. So the data may also be useful to anthropologists and historians. In addition to what the project will teach us about the speech of Colorado and how it compares to speech elsewhere in the United States, this research will contribute to a better understanding of dialect in general and inform theoretical models of language and culture.