Collaborative Proposal: Dialect Evolution and Ongoing Variable Linguistic Input: Pacific Northwest English 200 Years After Lewis and Clark

美国西北部（包括华盛顿、俄勒冈州、爱达荷州和犹他州）是美洲原住民、欧洲人、亚洲人和其他影响的丰富历史的产物。太平洋西北英语（PNWE）项目探讨了英语方言在美国这一地区的发展程度。太平洋西北部的故事是一个不断定居和移民的故事。虽然可以找到一些历史上孤立的社区，但大多数西北人生活在他们的声音与不同背景的人混合的地方。在刘易斯和克拉克历史性地航行到太平洋沿岸两百年后，西北地区的建立时间是否足够长，足以拥有独特的方言特征？持续不断的定居历史使它成为美国最真实的熔炉吗？美洲原住民、非洲裔美国人、斯堪的纳维亚人、亚洲人、东海岸美国人和其他人在多大程度上塑造了这个地区的语言？这个项目的第一阶段研究了西雅图大都市地区人们说话的方式。将从2个不同社区（一个历史悠久，另一个由新来者居住）的西雅图人那里收集面对面的语音数据。此外，还将通过电话采访一小部分西雅图居民。这些受试者将是西雅图的母语为英语的居民（不一定是西雅图本地人），并将被包括在内，以描绘西雅图的方言范围。除了这些扬声器，数据将收集从一个历史悠久的西雅图附近的非洲裔美国人扬声器的小样本，以研究种族在影响太平洋西北部的英语中发挥的作用。

The Northwestern United States (including Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Utah) is the product of a rich history of Native American, European, Asian, and other influences. The Pacific Northwest English (PNWE) project explores the extent of English dialect development in this region of the United States. The story of the Pacific Northwest is one of constant settlement and immigration. Although a few pockets of historically-isolated communities can be found, most Northwesterners live in places where their voices intermingle with people of different backgrounds. Two hundred years after Lewis and Clark's historic voyage to the Pacific coast, has the Northwest been established long enough to have unique dialect features? Has the history of ongoing settlement made it the truest of American melting-pots? How much have Native-Americans, African-Americans, Scandinavians, Asians, East-coast Americans, and others shaped the speech of this region? The first phase of this project examines the way people talk in the Seattle metropolitan area. In-person speech data will be collected from Seattleites in 2 different neighborhoods (one historically established, the other populated by newcomers). In addition, a small sample of Seattle residents will be interviewed by telephone. These subjects will be native English-speaking residents of Seattle (not necessarily native Seattleites) and will be included in order to paint a picture of the range of dialects present in Seattle in general. In addition to these speakers, data will be collected from a small sample of African-American speakers from one long-established Seattle neighborhood in order to examine the role that ethnicity plays in influencing the English of the Pacific Northwest.