Sound change in interacting human systems: A conference on sound change in May, 2014 at U.C.-Berkeley

人类系统交互中的声音变化：2014 年 5 月在加州大学伯克利分校举行的声音变化会议

• 批准号: 1322814
• 负责人: Keith Johnson
• 金额: $ 2.02万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1322814&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Sound; change; interacting; human; systems

The project (a three-day conference) addresses the question of language change, and in particular, how the pronunciation of words changes over generations. Pronunciation is associated with social identity and group membership but the factors that underlie changes in pronunciation may be general cognitive and phonetic mechanisms that are not under direct control of speakers. This topic relates to general questions of how social organization emerges from individual behavior that are relevant to many different types of social organization (including political and economic systems). The linguistic system, as compared with other types of social organization, is more directly tied to sensory and motor systems and thus the factors that shape the system are more directly observable. The conference brings together researchers in linguistics, sociology, cognitive science, and computer science to exchange results and refine methods.

这个项目（为期三天的会议）讨论了语言变化的问题，特别是单词的发音是如何在几代人之间发生变化的。发音与社会身份和群体成员关系有关，但发音变化背后的因素可能是不受说话者直接控制的一般认知和语音机制。这个主题涉及社会组织如何从与许多不同类型的社会组织（包括政治和经济制度）相关的个人行为中产生的一般问题。与其他类型的社会组织相比，语言系统更直接地与感觉和运动系统联系在一起，因此形成该系统的因素更容易直接观察到。会议汇集了语言学、社会学、认知科学和计算机科学领域的研究人员，交流成果并改进方法。