Doctoral Dissertation Research: An experimental approach to phonetic transfer in the production and perception of early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals

博士论文研究：早期西班牙语-加泰罗尼亚双语者的生产和感知中语音迁移的实验方法

• 批准号: 1226964
• 负责人: Barbara Bullock
• 金额: $ 1.39万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 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: 2012-07-01 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1226964&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; experimental; approach

This dissertation project examines the influence of one language on the other in bilinguals who learn both languages from a very young age and who continue to use both languages extensively within a bilingual community. Previous research has suggested that the dominant language interferes with the acquisition of the phonetics of the other language even when bilinguals have the most favorable conditions to learn both, which is the case of Spanish and Catalan speakers on the island of Majorca (Spain). The hypothesis of this study is that bilinguals are able to perceive the vowels in Catalan that do not exist in Spanish and that they are also able to produce them accurately but that previously unexamined factors, including whether the words are shared between two languages (cognates), and a speaker's language dominance, use, age and attitudes about language, also play a role in how accurately they perceive and produce vowels in certain words. 40 Spanish- and 40 Catalan-dominant bilinguals will participate in three experiments. The first, will investigate the production of the Catalan and Spanish target vowels. The second experiment will test their perception of these vowels. Finally, the third experiment will test whether they know which vowel is correct in a particular word. If these speakers perform these tasks accurately it would refute the claim that the dominant language interferes with the acquisition of the other language.The present study will inform methodologies in the study of bilingualism, not only in phonetics, but also in the domains of psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and language contact, providing a clearer picture of production and perception patterns at the level of the word and at the individual sound level. This award will support the scientific training of a promising scholar.

本论文项目探讨了一种语言对双语者的影响，他们从很小的时候就开始学习这两种语言，并在双语社区中广泛使用这两种语言。先前的研究表明，即使双语者有最有利的条件学习这两种语言，占主导地位的语言也会干扰另一种语言的语音习得，这是马略卡岛（西班牙）上西班牙语和加泰罗尼亚语使用者的情况。这项研究的假设是，双语者能够感知加泰罗尼亚语中不存在于西班牙语中的元音，并且他们也能够准确地产生它们，但先前未研究的因素，包括两种语言之间是否共享单词。（同源词），以及说话人的语言优势，使用，年龄和对语言的态度，也在他们如何准确地感知和产生某些单词中的元音方面发挥作用。40名西班牙语和40名加泰罗尼亚语为主的双语者将参加三个实验。第一，将调查加泰罗尼亚语和西班牙语的目标元音的生产。第二个实验将测试他们对这些元音的感知。最后，第三个实验将测试他们是否知道哪个元音是正确的特定单词。如果这些说话者准确地完成了这些任务，那么就可以反驳占主导地位的语言干扰另一种语言习得的说法。本研究将为双语研究的方法提供信息，不仅在语音学方面，而且在心理语言学，社会语言学和语言接触领域，提供了一个更清晰的图片的生产和感知模式，在一个字的水平和在个人的声音水平。 该奖项将支持一个有前途的学者的科学培训。