Workshop on Sociophonetic Methodology for the 2011 Linguistics Institute

由于免费或低成本声学分析技术资源的迅速发展，现在有更多、更多样化的研究人员群体可以为各种语言研究进行详细的语音分析；然而，这些资源的提供速度使大多数研究人员很难跟上新技术的最佳使用。本讲习班通过在社会语言学、现场语音学、语料库语言学、实验室/实验语音学、语言文献和保存、语言习得和社会互动等领域为高级研究生和教授提供专门培训，满足这些方法需求。研讨会的地点是2011年美国语言学会暑期学院，旨在让来自所有分领域的学生和教职员工相互交流和学习。虽然研讨会是对组织者社会语音学研究所课程的补充，但研究所的每个人都将被邀请参加研讨会。研讨会的主讲人是17个特定子专业的顶尖研究人员，他们每人将教授为他们自己的研究开发的方法技术，然后主持关于具体技术的讨论。每一位主持人都是因为他/她的平易近人和充满活力的教学和研究声誉而被选中。演讲者将在工作坊周的办公时间和非正式活动中与学生和其他研究人员会面，允许所有参与者一起孵化新的研究项目。介绍材料将作为讲习班网站的基础。演讲者的高素质和有计划的互动水平说明了该提案的学术价值。这一建议的更广泛影响将惠及研究界，包括学生和教职员工，他们可以利用讲习班加强各自分领域工作的方法论，并更多地反思自己的研究方法论。

Thanks to the burgeoning of free or low cost technical resources for acoustic analysis, a much larger, more diverse group of researchers can now conduct detailed phonetic analysis for a variety of linguistic studies; however, the speed with which these resources are being made available makes it difficult for most researchers to keep abreast of the best use of the new technology. This Workshop addresses these methodological needs by providing specialized training for advanced graduate students and professors in the fields of sociolinguistics, field phonetics, corpus linguistics, laboratory/experimental phonology, language documentation and preservation, language acquisition, and social interaction. The venue for the Workshop is the Linguistic Society of America 2011 Summer Institute, devised to permit students and faculty from a cross-section of all subfields to interact and learn from each other. While the Workshop supplements the organizers' Sociophonetics Institute course, everyone at the Institute will be invited to participate in the Workshop.The Workshop presenters, 17 top researchers in specific subspecialties, will each teach the methodological techniques developed for their own research and then moderate a discussion session on the specific techniques. Each of the presenters has been chosen because of his/her accessibility and dynamic teaching and research reputation. The presenters will meet with students and other researchers the week of the Workshop during office hours and casual events, permitting all participants to incubate new research projects together. The presentation materials will serve as the basis for a Workshop website. The high quality of presenters and the planned level of interaction speaks to the intellectual merit of the proposal. The broader impact of this proposal will go to the research community, both students and faculty, who can take advantage of the Workshop to enhance the methodology of the work in their own subfields and to become more reflective about their research methodology.