Doctoral Dissertation Research: The effect of dialect contact and social identity on fricative demerger

博士论文研究：方言接触和社会认同对摩擦音分解的影响

• 批准号: 1528551
• 负责人: Barbara Bullock
• 金额: $ 1.28万
• 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: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-06-01 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1528551&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; effect; dialect

Societal changes across the world, particularly in Europe, are altering long-standing traditional dialects. Many such dialects are converging towards national or regional standards. Varieties of Andalusian Spanish present an intriguing case study where two sounds that had been merged are now splitting (or demerging) back into two separate categories, a process known as demerger. In this case, ceceo, or the neutralization of orthographic s and z, c(i/e) to the voiceless predorso-dental fricative [s¦È], in existence since medieval Spanish, is currently demerging into two separate sounds, [s] and [¦È], respectively, converging with the Castilian standard known as distinci¨®n. Ceceo and distinci¨®n each carry social value and the social identities of speakers are judged depending upon which norm they follow. The present research documents the demerger in the Andalusian province of Huelva. It compares two speech communities: (i) the capital city of Huelva, which reflects the new, more cosmopolitan Europe of expanding social networks; and (ii) Lepe, an agricultural town of the province, reflecting an older, more provincial, Europe, but one with stronger social networks. This study seeks to answer the following: (1) which factors contribute most to the probability that a speaker will manifest a split rather than a merger (age, sex, local networks, education, profession, etc.); (2) what are the acoustic profiles of the coronal fricative consonants corresponding to various orthographic representations produced by speakers of each region; and (3) does this demerger impact certain words more than others? The research questions will be investigated through interview data, drawing on the methods and interpretive frameworks of variationist sociolinguistics, laboratory phonology, sociophonetics, social dialectology, and linguistic anthropology. The demerger of ceceo exemplifies the social pressures placed on speakers of local traditional dialects to converge towards more standard features, even if contrary to natural processes of language change.

世界各地的社会变化，特别是在欧洲，正在改变长期存在的传统方言。许多这样的方言正在向国家或地区标准靠拢。安达卢西亚西班牙语的变体提供了一个有趣的案例研究，两个已经合并的声音现在分裂（或分离）成两个独立的类别，这个过程被称为分离。在这种情况下，ceceo，或正字法s和z的中和，c（i/e）到无齿前背齿摩擦音[s]，自中世纪西班牙语以来就存在，目前正分别分解为两个独立的声音，[s]和[]，与卡斯蒂利亚标准的distinct n趋同。Ceceo和distinción每个都有社会价值，说话者的社会身份取决于他们遵循的规范。本研究记录了安达卢西亚韦尔瓦省的分拆情况。它比较了两个语言社区：（一）首都韦尔瓦，这反映了新的，更国际化的欧洲不断扩大的社交网络;和（二）莱佩，一个农业城镇的省，反映了一个古老的，更省，欧洲，但一个更强大的社交网络。本研究试图回答以下问题：（1）哪些因素（年龄、性别、本地网络、教育、职业等）对说话人表现分裂而非合并的概率影响最大; (2)冠状摩擦辅音的声学轮廓与每个区域的说话者产生的各种正字法表示相对应;以及（3）这种分离是否对某些词的影响比其他词更大？研究问题将通过访谈数据进行调查，借鉴变异社会语言学，实验室语音学，社会语音学，社会方言学和语言人类学的方法和解释框架。ceceo的分离体现了当地传统方言使用者所承受的社会压力，迫使他们向更标准的特征靠拢，即使这与语言变化的自然过程相反。