Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: Revisiting the Variable Deletion of Labiovelar Glide (w)

博士论文改进：重新审视唇腭滑动的变量删除（w）

• 批准号: 1529051
• 负责人: Jianjing Kuang
• 金额: $ 0.58万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 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=1529051&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Revisiting; Variable

This dissertation project investigates how (w)-deletion in Seoul Korean varies according to linguistic and social factors and how it has evolved over time, using three different approaches. The first part of the project examines how the (w)-deletion patterns have changed by comparing spontaneous speech data collected in 2015 with data from 1990s. Second, it provides a model where a phonological rule changes its shape after losing a phonological conditioning. The third part of the project explores different tongue configurations used by speakers participating in the change in the (w)-deletion patterns in Seoul Korean. The acoustic data will be gathered through sociolinguistic interviews in which participants are asked to talk about topics they feel comfortable with. Participants include native Seoul speakers from different groups of age, social class and gender. A comparison will be made between these data with those from earlier studies on (w)-deletion in Seoul Korean which will reveal how the (w)-deletion patterns have evolved over time. The articulatory data will be obtained from native Seoul speakers in different age groups using ultrasound tongue imaging. This project will contribute important knowledge about ongoing sound changes taking place in Seoul Korean and what factors influence these changes. Discoveries from this project will also shed new light on the evolution of phonological processes, which will inform the principles of linguistic change as well as the interaction between human cognitive processes and social interactions. Lastly, the socio-articulatory data in the project have great potential to answer questions that we have not been able to answer with acoustic and auditory studies. Linking articulatory data with acoustic data will provide a new avenue of sociolinguistic research in studying language variation and change.

本论文研究了首尔韩语中的（w）-缺失是如何随着语言和社会因素的变化而变化的，以及它是如何随着时间的推移而演变的。该项目的第一部分通过将2015年收集的自发语音数据与20世纪90年代的数据进行比较，研究了（w）-缺失模式的变化。第二，它提供了一个模型，其中语音规则改变其形状后，失去了语音条件。本研究的第三部分探讨了参与首尔韩语（w）-缺失模式变化的说话者所使用的不同舌形。声学数据将通过社会语言学访谈收集，参与者被要求谈论他们感到舒适的话题。参加者包括来自不同年龄、社会阶层和性别的以首尔为母语的人。这些数据之间的比较将与早期的研究（W）-缺失在首尔韩国，这将揭示如何（W）-缺失模式随着时间的推移而演变。发音数据将使用超声舌成像从不同年龄组的本地首尔说话者获得。这个项目将有助于对正在进行的声音变化的重要知识发生在首尔韩国和影响这些变化的因素。该项目的发现也将为语音过程的演变提供新的线索，这将为语言变化的原则以及人类认知过程和社会互动之间的相互作用提供信息。最后，该项目中的社会发音数据有很大的潜力来回答我们无法用声学和听觉研究回答的问题。将发音数据与声学数据相结合将为社会语言学研究语言变异和变化提供一条新的途径。