Colorado Field Research for Linguistic Atlas of the Western States

在William Kretzschmar博士的指导下，拉蒙安提欧先生将为他的博士论文收集语言学数据。他将对美国西部英语进行方言学研究，特别关注科罗拉多，因为它是落基山脉地区的文化中心。该项目将从该州各地区的代表性发言者那里收集演讲，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，以及最近的创新，如计算机和统计测试）。新的工具将使研究人员能够检查语言的各个层次，包括语法。由于收集的语音将被转录并通过语言地图集网站（http：//www.example.com）公开，研究人员将能够使用这些数据进行广泛的语言变化调查。us.english.uga.edu这些包括比较为这个项目收集的数据与旧的数据集，并研究科罗拉多和美国其他地区之间的方言变化以及科罗拉多语料库内的变化。访谈将引出物体的名称，因为这是一个地区之间差异很大的领域。因此，这些数据对人类学家和历史学家也可能有用。除了该项目将教我们关于科罗拉多的语音以及它如何与美国其他地方的语音进行比较之外，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信息。

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.