Doctoral dissertation Research: Aspect vs. affect in African American Vernacular English

博士论文研究：非裔美国人白话英语中的方面与情感

• 批准号: 1528378
• 负责人: Brian Joseph
• 金额: $ 1.51万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1528378&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; dissertation; Research; Aspect; vs.

This study examines the use of verbal -s (the non-standard application of -s on present tense verbs) in African-American English (AAE). AAE speakers are asked to judge when verbal -s is most appropriate, and also to provide information via rating tasks about their beliefs regarding the frequency of their own use of verbal -s, the frequency of its use in their surrounding communities, and their beliefs about who in the African-American AAE-speaking community is more likely to use verbal -s. In order to gather these data, a survey will be carried out in which participants read brief scenarios and choose, for each one, whether a given follow-up sentence presented to them is more appropriate with or without verbal -s. Factors to be investigated include those which past research has hinted at being influential. Grammatical factors include speaker affect, the attitude or emotion that a speaker brings to an utterance, and habitual aspect, which distinguishes states and ongoing actions from repetitive actions. Non-grammatical factors include age and gender of participants, as well as geographical region, which will be investigated by conducting the survey in four locations: California, Ohio, New York, and Texas. This study thus provides evidence as to whether verbal -s can have an affective and/or aspectual connotation in a way that past production-based studies have struggled to account for. It will also provide a regional perspective, which has been lacking in AAE studies for some time. The large number of participants and consideration of other social factors will also make this a valuable study with reliable results. The results of this study should help to address the misperceptions about non-standard varieties in general and African American English in particular.

本研究考察了非裔美国人英语中动词-s（-s在现在时动词上的非标准应用）的使用情况。AAE发言者被要求判断何时口头-s是最合适的，并通过评级任务提供有关他们的信念的信息，关于他们自己使用口头-s的频率，在他们周围的社区中使用的频率，以及他们对非洲裔美国人AAE社区中谁更有可能使用口头-s的信念。为了收集这些数据，将进行一项调查，让参与者阅读简短的情景，并为每个情景选择一个给定的后续句子是否更合适。需要调查的因素包括过去的研究表明具有影响力的因素。 语法因素包括说话者情感，说话者对话语的态度或情感，以及习惯体，它将状态和持续的动作与重复的动作区分开来。 非语法因素包括参与者的年龄和性别，以及地理区域，将通过在四个地点进行调查进行调查：加州，俄亥俄州，纽约和得克萨斯州。因此，这项研究提供了证据，以是否动词-s可以有一个情感和/或方面的内涵，在某种程度上，过去的生产为基础的研究一直在努力解释。它还将提供一个区域视角，这是一段时间以来AAE研究所缺乏的。大量的参与者和其他社会因素的考虑也将使这项研究具有可靠的结果。这项研究的结果应该有助于解决一般的非标准变体，特别是非洲裔美国人英语的误解。