Workshop on sociolectal and dialectal prosodic variation: Amherst, MA - October 11-13, 2018

社会语言和方言韵律变化研讨会：马萨诸塞州阿默斯特 - 2018 年 10 月 11 日至 13 日

• 批准号: 1749321
• 负责人: Kristine Yu
• 金额: $ 3.59万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-05-01 至 2019-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1749321&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; sociolectal; dialectal; prosodic; variation

Prosody describes the musical aspects of language, like pitch, phrasing, and rhythm. Over the past 40 years, we've learned a great deal about how speakers signal language meaning with prosody: Prosodic cues help listeners better understand their speaker and are especially important for children learning language. However, as in many language fields, the majority of studies of prosody have focused on majority languages and dialects and on speakers who hold power in social structures. The goal of the funded workshop is to diversify prosody research in terms of the languages and dialects being investigated, as well as the social structures that influence prosodic variation. The workshop will bring together prosody researchers and researchers exploring the role of sociological variation in prosody, with a specific focus on understudied dialects and endangered languages, and individual differences based on gender and sexuality. Invited speakers will (i) raise what questions and areas they think would especially benefit from prosodic research, (ii) teach prosody researchers what they need to know to do research in these areas, and (iii) share insights from their experience engaging with the broader public around issues of understudied and endangered languages, linguistic bias, and intersectionality in science.In addition to talks from invited speakers, there will be additional talks, and two poster sessions, highlighting work related to the special session topic and to topics in prosody more generally. A satellite workshop centered on African-American English prosody will bring together participants to contribute analyses of common data sets and discuss the development of shared data resources and special methodological considerations such as challenges in prosodic transcription.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

韵律描述了语言的音乐方面，如音高、短语和节奏。在过去的40年里，我们学到了很多关于说话者如何用韵律来传达语言含义的知识：韵律线索帮助听者更好地理解他们的说话者，对儿童学习语言尤其重要。然而，就像在许多语言领域一样，大多数对韵律的研究都集中在大多数语言和方言以及在社会结构中掌握权力的说话人身上。受资助的研讨会的目标是在被调查的语言和方言以及影响韵律变异的社会结构方面使韵律研究多样化。研讨会将汇集韵律研究人员和探索社会学变异在韵律中的作用的研究人员，特别关注研究不足的方言和濒危语言，以及基于性别和性取向的个体差异。被邀请的演讲者将(I)提出他们认为将特别受益于韵律研究的问题和领域，(Ii)向韵律研究人员传授他们在这些领域的研究需要知道的知识，以及(Iii)分享他们从与更广泛的公众接触的经验中获得的关于未被研究和濒危的语言、语言偏见和科学交叉问题的见解。除了被邀请的演讲者的演讲外，还将有额外的演讲和两个海报会议，突出与特别会议主题和更广泛的韵律主题相关的工作。一个以非裔美国人英语韵律为中心的卫星研讨会将使参与者聚集在一起，对共同的数据集进行分析，并讨论共享数据资源的开发和特殊方法考虑，如韵律转录方面的挑战。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。