Doctoral DissertationResearch: Prosody and intonation in two French-based creoles: Haitian Creole and Guadeloupean Creole

博士论文研究：两种法语克里奥尔语的韵律和语调：海地克里奥尔语和瓜德罗普克里奥尔语

• 批准号: 0519178
• 负责人: Kenneth de Jong
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0519178&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; DissertationResearch; Prosody; intonation; two

Doctoral Improvement Grant: PROSODY AND INTONATION IN TWO FRENCH-BASED CREOLES IN THE CARIBBEAN: HAITIAN CREOLE AND GUADELOUPEAN CREOLEIntonation is an important component of speech. It organizes speech into easy-to-process pieces of information for the listener, and it can distinguish ambiguous sentences. All verbal utterances use some type of intonation. Intonation consists of increases and decreases in voice pitch that tell a listener whether an utterance is a question, contradiction, or specially emphasized; it also includes pauses at relevant moments in the utterance. Under the joint direction of Dr. Kenneth de Jong and Dr. Albert Valdman, Ms. Iskra Iskrova will examine prosody and intonation in two French-based creoles in the Caribbean, Haitian and Guadeloupean. She will analyze the intonational changes in pitch and provide a description of the linguistically meaningful patterns. Intonation data based on spontaneous verbal utterances will be collected in Guadeloupe from native Guadeloupean speakers and Haitian immigrants on the island. The data will be transcribed using the most up-to-date transcription conventions based on the acoustic analysis of the sound wave. This study of intonation will complement the existing grammatical description of the two languages. The project is of particular interest because it examines Creole languages, which are relatively poorly documented and understudied. The comparison of two related Creoles will further our understanding of Creoles that have developed from the same lexical donor language (French). New data on intonation from less common spoken languages will increase our understanding of intonational systems in languages of the world. The research project will make a significant contribution both to the field of Creole studies and to intonational phonology. It will increase the body of data available for comparative intonation studies. Creoles offer the opportunity to investigate how linguistic material from various languages interacts in the context of multiple language contact. There has been little research on the interference between two different intonation systems in second language learning, and it is not clear what the interactions were across multiple languages in the process of Creole formation. This project forms the foundation of such a model.

博士生提高补助金：两种加勒比法语克里奥尔语的韵律和语调：海天克里奥尔语和瓜德卢克里奥尔语语调是语音的重要组成部分。它将语音组织成听众易于处理的信息片段，并且可以区分歧义句子。所有的言语都使用某种语调。语调由音调的增加和减少组成，告诉听众话语是问题、矛盾还是特别强调;它还包括话语中相关时刻的停顿。在Kenneth de Jong博士和Albert Valdman博士的共同指导下，Iskra Iskrova女士将研究加勒比海地区两种法语克里奥尔语的韵律和语调，海地语和瓜德罗普语。她将分析音高的语调变化，并提供语言学上有意义的模式的描述。语调数据的基础上自发的口头发言将收集在瓜德罗普本土瓜德罗普岛的发言人和海地移民在岛上。将根据声波的声学分析，使用最新的转录惯例转录数据。对语调的研究将补充现有的两种语言的语法描述。该项目特别令人感兴趣，因为它考察了克里奥尔语，这些语言的记录相对较少，研究不足。两个相关的克里奥尔语的比较将进一步加深我们对克里奥尔语的理解，克里奥尔语是从同一个词汇供体语言（法语）发展而来的。 来自不太常见的口语的语调的新数据将增加我们对世界语言语调系统的理解。该研究项目将对克里奥尔语研究领域和语调音系学做出重大贡献。 这将增加可用于语调比较研究的数据。克里奥尔语提供了一个机会，以调查如何从各种语言的语言材料在多种语言接触的背景下相互作用。关于第二语言学习中两种不同语调系统之间的相互干扰的研究很少，也不清楚克里奥尔语形成过程中跨语言的相互作用。该项目构成了这种模式的基础。