NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) for FY 2013 in New Zealand

2013 财年 NSF 东亚及太平洋暑期学院 (EAPSI) 在新西兰

• 批准号: 1310836
• 负责人: Scott Seyfarth
• 金额: $ 0.51万
• 依托单位: Seyfarth Scott J
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-06-01 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1310836&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; East; Asia; Pacific; Summer

This action funds Scott Seyfarth of the University of California, San Diego to conduct a research project in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences area during the summer of 2013 at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. The project title is "Usage-Based Factors for Vowel Change in New Zealand English." The host scientist is Elizabeth Hume.This project uses data from a large historical speech corpus hosted at the University of Canterbury to study causes for vowel change in New Zealand English. The corpus is being evaluated for the contribution of usage variables, such as word predictability, the probabilities of different vowel types, and the salience of near-homophones, to vowel centralization and the front vowel shift in New Zealand English. These factors have been shown to influence vowel articulation in everyday speech, and so the goal is to assess whether they may also have influenced the long-term vowel changes in progress, or whether the changes are better accounted for by sociolinguistic analysis. The project contributes to scholarship on vowel system typology, phonetic category maintenance, and the phonetics and phonology of New Zealand English over the last century.Broader impacts of an EAPSI fellowship include providing the Fellow a first-hand research experience outside the U.S.; an introduction to the science, science policy, and scientific infrastructure of the respective location; and an orientation to the society, culture and language. These activities meet the NSF goal to educate for international collaborations early in the career of its scientists, engineers, and educators, thus ensuring a globally aware U.S. scientific workforce. Furthermore, this research promotes the exchange of work being done on the sound systems of global Englishes, including among the multi-disciplinary, international linguistics and cognition researchers at the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain, and Behavior. The results of the research will contribute to the Origins of New Zealand English Project at the Institute, and will be shared with the wider linguistics community.

该行动资助加州大学圣地亚哥分校的 Scott Seyfarth 于 2013 年夏季在新西兰基督城的坎特伯雷大学开展社会、行为和经济科学领域的研究项目。 该项目的标题是“新西兰英语元音变化的基于使用的因素”。主持科学家是伊丽莎白休谟。该项目使用坎特伯雷大学托管的大型历史语音语料库的数据来研究新西兰英语元音变化的原因。正在评估语料库中使用变量（例如单词可预测性、不同元音类型的概率以及近同音词的显着性）对新西兰英语中元音集中化和前元音移位的贡献。这些因素已被证明会影响日常言语中的元音发音，因此我们的目标是评估它们是否也影响了进展中的长期元音变化，或者社会语言学分析是否可以更好地解释这些变化。该项目为上个世纪元音系统类型学、语音类别维护以及新西兰英语的语音学和音韵学方面的学术做出贡献。EAPSI 奖学金的更广泛影响包括为研究员提供美国以外的第一手研究经验；各自地点的科学、科学政策和科学基础设施的介绍；以及对社会、文化和语言的定位。 这些活动符合 NSF 的目标，即在科学家、工程师和教育工作者职业生涯的早期进行国际合作教育，从而确保美国科学劳动力具有全球意识。 此外，这项研究促进了全球英语健全系统方面的工作交流，包括新西兰语言、大脑和行为研究所的多学科、国际语言学和认知研究人员之间的交流。研究结果将有助于该研究所的新西兰英语起源项目，并将与更广泛的语言学界分享。