Collaborative Research: A Corpus of New York City English: Audio-Aligned and Parsed

该项目旨在通过开发和使用创新的音频对齐和解析的纽约人演讲语料库，进一步研究纽约市英语(NYCE)--纽约市及其周边地区特有的英语变体。该项目将把语音语料库开发工具的最新进展与纽约城市大学(CUNY)本科生的特殊才能和背景相结合，创建第一个这样的纽约市英语语料库(CUNY-CoNYCE)。CUNY-CoNYCE将基于对五个行政区和长岛的纽约人的采访，采访由来自皇后学院、雷曼学院(Bronx)和斯塔滕岛学院的CUNY本科生进行。由于我们的学生主要来自纽约市和长岛五个行政区的社区，他们能够集体收集和产生来自该地区各地的大量语音数据，这是独一无二的。最终的产品将是一个在线的、可自由访问的、约100万字的音频对齐和语法注释的NYCE语音语料库，它将伴随着全套数字、文本可搜索的语音信号录音，语料库将从中转录。除了回答关于NYCE中的语言变异和变化的问题，语料库还将进一步研究语言学的所有领域，特别是在语音学、音系学、词法、句法、社会语言学和语篇分析方面。在数据收集中使用口述历史和种族从属关系的社会学测量，也将使CUNY-CoNYCE成为社会学家和人类学家研究城市背景下的生活经历、种族间关系和纽约生活的近期历史的有用工具。该项目还将为数十名纽约州立大学本科生提供变革性的研究体验，为他们提供独特的研究机会。此外，语料库的使用者将发展对非标准方言的语法的理解和欣赏，以及作为社会融合所必需的语言资源的非标准言语的功能。

This project aims to further the study of New York City English (NYCE) - the varieties of English particular to New York City and the surrounding region - through the development and use of an innovative audio-aligned and parsed corpus of New Yorkers' speech. The project will combine recent advances in speech corpus development tools with the special talents and backgrounds of undergraduates at the City University of New York (CUNY), to create the first such corpus of New York City English (the CUNY-CoNYCE). The CUNY-CoNYCE will be based on interviews with New Yorkers across the five boroughs and Long Island, conducted by CUNY undergraduates from Queens College, Lehman College (The Bronx), and the College of Staten Island. Because our student populations draw predominantly from neighborhoods across the five boroughs of New York City and Long Island, they are uniquely able to collectively gather and produce large quantities of speech data from all over the region. The ultimate product will be an on-line, freely accessible, ~1,000,000-word audio-aligned and grammatically annotated corpus of NYCE speech, which will be accompanied by a full set of digital, text-searchable recordings of the speech signal from which the corpus is transcribed.In addition to answering questions about language variation and change in NYCE, the corpus will further research in all areas of linguistics, especially in phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis. The use of oral history and sociological measurements of ethnic affiliation components in data collection will also make the CUNY-CoNYCE a useful tool for sociologists and anthropologists examining lived experience in urban settings, inter-ethnic relations, and near-term history of New York life. The project will also provide transformative research experiences for dozens of CUNY undergraduates, giving them unique research opportunities. Additionally, users of the corpus will develop an understanding of and appreciation for the grammar of non-standard dialects, and functions of non-standard speech as necessary linguistic resources for social integration.