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Effects of Variation and Variability in the Acquisition of Two Dialects of Spanish

变异和变异对西班牙语两种方言习得的影响

基本信息

批准号：
1656133
负责人：
Cristina Schmitt
金额：
$ 19.77万
依托单位：
Michigan State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-02-01 至 2023-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1656133&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Effects Variation Variability Acquisition Two

项目摘要

Most work on language acquisition examines acquisition of language in stable and relatively homogeneous environments. In these environments typically developing children become competent speakers of the language they are exposed to quickly and efficiently. This project examines children's acquisition of grammatical properties in a much less stable but very common situation, that of language and dialect contact. Mutually intelligible dialects sometimes use the same morphological units in different ways and with different interpretations. This creates a lot of variability in the linguistic input for the learner, who then faces a linguistic situation that may provide evidence for two different and possibly incompatible grammars. Yet such children do develop their linguistic abilities and the capacity to produce and understand sentences they never heard before. Contact environments, therefore, provide a window for the researcher to examine how the learning mechanisms decide which properties of the input are "good evidence" and which are not. These environments can therefore shed light on how the learning mechanisms cope with contradictory or ambiguous input.The principle activities will be to build two corpora of naturalistic child and adult speech of the two Spanish varieties in contact (Rioplatense Spanish and Paraguayan Spanish spoken in Buenos Aires, Argentina) and to analyze children's acquisition of grammatical properties, which exhibit variability across the two dialects. The completed corpora will be made available to other researchers worldwide (via the CHILDES database). Corpus analyses will be supplemented with experimental data and regular linguistic analysis with adult consultants. The goal is to provide both qualitative and quantitative results that can shed light on the nature of the language acquisition process and how it is affected by unstable variability.

大多数关于语言习得的研究都是在稳定和相对同质的环境中进行的。在这些环境中，发育中的儿童通常会迅速有效地掌握他们所接触的语言。这个项目考察了儿童在一种不太稳定但很常见的情况下对语法属性的习得，即语言和方言接触。相互理解的方言有时以不同的方式和不同的解释使用相同的形态学单位。这给学习者的语言输入带来了很大的可变性，然后学习者面临的语言情境可能会为两种不同的、可能不兼容的语法提供证据。然而，这样的孩子确实发展了他们的语言能力，并有能力说出和理解他们以前从未听过的句子。因此，接触环境为研究人员提供了一个窗口，以检查学习机制如何决定输入的哪些属性是“好证据”，哪些不是。因此，这些环境可以阐明学习机制如何处理矛盾或模糊的输入。主要活动将是建立两个语料库，包括两种接触的西班牙语（Rioplatense西班牙语和阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯的巴拉圭西班牙语）的儿童和成人自然语言，并分析儿童对两种方言中表现出差异的语法特性的习得。完成的语料库将提供给全世界的其他研究人员（通过CHILDES数据库）。语料库分析将辅以实验数据和定期由成人顾问进行的语言分析。我们的目标是提供定性和定量的结果，以阐明语言习得过程的本质，以及它是如何受到不稳定变化的影响的。