Collaborative Research: A syntactically annotated corpus of Appalachian English

合作研究：阿巴拉契亚英语句法注释语料库

• 批准号: 1152148
• 负责人: Christina Tortora
• 金额: $ 23.66万
• 依托单位: CUNY College of Staten Island
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1152148&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; syntactically; annotated; corpus

The goal of this project is to create an online corpus of one million words of traditional Appalachian speech, which will be freely available to the scholarly community and to the public. Though often socially stigmatized, Appalachian English is historically central to the development of American English from its British origins, and the project aims to provide a resource unprecedented in scope and in public accessibility for cultural, historical, and linguistic research on the English of Appalachia.The project is based on an existing collection of recordings and transcripts by Prof. Michael Montgomery, a recognized authority in the field, and its goals include digitizing the recordings, aligning the digitized sound files with the transcripts, and annotating the transcripts with detailed grammatical information. Digitizing the recordings will preserve this valuable cultural resource for future generations, and aligning the digitized recordings with the transcripts will allow researchers to rapidly find recorded words and phrases by searching the transcribed text. The grammatical annotation will allow in-depth analyses of particular constructions that are specific to Appalachian English or typical of vernacular American speech more generally, as well as comparisons of Appalachian English with contemporary standard American English, with other vernacular Englishes, and with earlier stages of the language.Because the corpus will be large, publicly available, and searchable online with standard computational tools, it will foster replicability, thereby contributing to increased empirical rigor in linguistic research. These same properties will also make it possible to use the corpus as a teaching tool at the high school and college levels. It will also serve as a model for the creation of similar corpora of other varieties of English. In sum, the annotated corpus of Appalachian English will deepen our understanding of America's linguistic heritage and promote a scientifically informed appreciation of regional language and culture.

该项目的目标是创建一个包含100万字传统阿巴拉契亚语的在线语料库，并将免费提供给学术界和公众。尽管阿巴拉契亚英语在社会上经常被污名化，但它在历史上对美国英语的发展起着核心作用，它起源于英国，该项目旨在为阿巴拉契亚英语的文化、历史和语言研究提供前所未有的范围和公众可及性资源。该项目基于该领域公认的权威Michael Montgomery教授现有的录音和抄本集合，其目标包括将录音数字化，将数字化的声音文件与抄本对齐，并用详细的语法信息注释抄本。数字化录音将为后代保存这一宝贵的文化资源，并且将数字化录音与抄本对齐将使研究人员能够通过搜索抄本文本快速找到记录的单词和短语。语法注释将允许深入分析阿巴拉契亚英语或更普遍的典型美国本土语言的特定结构，以及将阿巴拉契亚英语与当代标准美国英语、其他本土英语和早期语言进行比较。由于语料库规模庞大，可公开获取，并可通过标准计算工具在线搜索，因此它将促进可复制性，从而有助于提高语言学研究的经验严谨性。这些相同的特性也将使语料库成为高中和大学水平的教学工具。它也将作为创建其他种类英语的类似语料库的模型。总之，阿巴拉契亚英语注释语料库将加深我们对美国语言遗产的理解，并促进对地区语言和文化的科学欣赏。