A Cross-linguistic Study of Self-repair

自我修复的跨语言研究

• 批准号: 0406512
• 负责人: Barbara Fox
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-01 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0406512&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Cross; linguistic; Study; Self; repair

ABSTRACTNSF Proposal 0406512A Cross-linguistic Study of Self-repairCo-PIs: Barbara A. Fox, University of Colorado, Boulder and Fay Wouk, University of AucklandWith National Science Foundation support, Dr. Barbara Fox of the University of Colorado, Boulder, will conduct collaborative research with Dr. Fay Wouk of the University of Auckland, New Zealand. This research project explores the conversational phenomenon of self-repair in 14 languages. Self-repair is the process by which a speaker stops the sentence they are producing and then modifies it in some way. A speaker may repeat a word or phrase just produced, insert a word or phrase, begin the sentence again in a new way, or modify the structure in other ways, for example, And she- this girl's fixed up on a da- a blind date. In this sentence, the speaker stops the utterance and then replaces the pronoun 'she' with the noun phrase 'this girl'and then continues with the utterance. Later in the utterance the speaker appears to begin the phrase 'a date'and then redoes the phrase to insert the word 'blind.'Self-repair is thus a very powerful mechanism for altering the syntax of a sentence as it is being produced. Although self-repair may at first seem like the ultimate in disfluency and ungrammaticality, in fact it appears to be highly organized. We could even say that there is a grammar to self-repair. Moreover, this "grammar" appears to vary from language to language. For example, in our exploration of self-repair in Japanese and Korean, we found that the repetition of whole phrases-as in the above example-is extremely rare, while it is not uncommon in American English self-repair. A variety of explanations have been offered for the different "grammars" of self-repair in different languages. The research team in this project will analyze data from a wide range of languages, most of them unrelated and from different areas of the world, displaying a wide range of structures, in the hopes of understanding the scope of self-repair as a human-language phenomenon and testing past explanations regarding its cross-linguistic variation.

美国国家科学基金会0406512号提案：自我修复协同PI的跨语言研究。在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的芭芭拉·福克斯博士将与新西兰奥克兰大学的费伊·沃克博士进行合作研究。本研究探讨了14种语言中的会话自我修正现象。自我修正是说话者停止正在产生的句子，然后以某种方式修改它的过程。 说话者可能会重复一个刚刚产生的单词或短语，插入一个单词或短语，以新的方式重新开始句子，或者以其他方式修改结构，例如，她-这个女孩安排了一个da-一个盲目的约会。在这个句子中，说话者停止了说话，然后用名词短语“这个女孩”代替代词“她”，然后继续说话。 在话语的后面，说话者似乎开始短语“约会”，然后重做短语插入单词“盲目”。因此，自我修复是一种非常强大的机制，可以在句子产生的过程中改变句子的句法。 虽然自我修正乍看起来像是不流利和不合语法的终极手段，但事实上它似乎是高度有组织的。 我们甚至可以说，有一种语法可以自我修复。 此外，这种“语法”似乎因语言而异。 例如，在我们对日语和韩语中的自我修正的研究中，我们发现整个短语的重复--就像上面的例子--是极其罕见的，而在美式英语的自我修正中却并不罕见。 对于不同语言中自我修复的不同“语法”，人们给出了各种各样的解释。该项目的研究团队将分析来自各种语言的数据，其中大多数是无关的，来自世界不同地区，展示了广泛的结构，希望了解自我修复作为人类语言现象的范围，并测试过去对其跨语言变异的解释。