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Documentation of morphophonological interactions in phrasal domains: Grammatical tone, vowel harmony, and phonological agreement

短语域中形态语音交互的记录：语法语气、元音和谐和语音一致性

基本信息

批准号：
1760302
负责人：
Hannah Sande
金额：
$ 20.58万
依托单位：
Georgetown University
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：
2018-05-15 至 2021-04-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1760302&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Documentation morphophonological interactions phrasal domains

项目摘要

Linguists estimate that over half the world's 7,000 languages are tonal, with many of these endangered and not being acquired by children due to urbanization and an emphasis on formal education. This project will answer some of the many questions remaining about tone by focusing on a language displaying a rich tonal inventory, and a typologically unexpected system of consonant patterns and vowel harmony. These features interact in complex and poorly understood ways in phrases and sentences. This project will describe and analyze these phenomena in detail with a specific emphasis on word building (morphology) and sound patterns (phonology). The project will provide new insights into many questions remaining about tone and its scalar properties in this language, and on the behavior of complex tonal and vowel harmony systems in morphology and syntax. The results will be disseminated via journal articles on the descriptive and theoretical findings, a reference grammar and archived, annotated language data. In addition to its documentary goals, this project will support underrepresented students in international fieldwork and language documentation training. It will enhance the global competitiveness of the STEM workforce by fostering collaborative international relationships as sites of student learning. This project will investigate Guébie, an understudied endangered Kru (Niger-Congo) language spoken in southwestern Côte d'Ivoire, as part of a collaborative effort by by linguists at Georgetown University, linguists at Félix Houphouët-Boigny University in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, and the Guébie community. Kru languages in general are underdocumented, though extant work shows that languages within the Kru family show typologically rare linguistic properties. These include: 1) complex tonal systems with four tone heights, where tone distinguishes both lexical and grammatical contrasts; 2) unexpected patterning of implosive consonants with liquid consonants like rather than stops; 3) large vowel inventories with multiple types of vowel harmony, often conditioned by morphosyntactic environment; and 4) phonologically determined noun class agreement within noun phrases. Investigating these four properties and others will increase the scientific knowledge that depends critically on these linguistic features that are not found in languages like English, Spanish or their Indo-European relatives. These patterns include such typologically rare phenomena as scalar tone alternations as the sole markers of case and aspect distinctions. Due to the atypical nature of the phonological inventory and morphological properties of Guébie, a complete understanding of the morphophonological system of the language has much to contribute to our collective understanding of the possible linguistic features of a natural language, and the theoretical tools most appropriate for modeling morphophonological phenomena. Prosodic and phonological features, like those exhibited by Guébie, are highly vulnerable as languages become more endangered, which is happening in the Guébie community. This project also fosters strong connections between Ivoirians and Americans at globally focused academic institutions, which serves the national interest by helping to strengthen democracy and governance in Africa.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.

语言学家估计，世界上7,000种语言中有一半以上是声调语言，其中许多濒临灭绝，由于城市化和对正规教育的重视，儿童无法获得。这个项目将通过关注一种显示出丰富的音调库存的语言，以及一种在类型学上意想不到的辅音模式和元音和谐系统，来回答关于音调的许多遗留问题中的一些问题。这些特征在短语和句子中以复杂和难以理解的方式相互作用。本专题将详细描述和分析这些现象，特别强调构词法（形态学）和语音模式（音韵学）。该项目将提供新的见解，许多问题仍然存在的音调及其标量属性在这种语言中，并在复杂的音调和元音和谐系统的形态和句法的行为。研究结果将通过关于描述性和理论研究结果的期刊文章、参考语法和存档的注释语言数据传播。除了文献目标外，该项目还将支持代表性不足的学生进行国际实地考察和语言文献培训。它将通过促进作为学生学习场所的国际合作关系，提高STEM劳动力的全球竞争力。该项目将调查Guébie语，这是一种未得到充分研究的科特迪瓦西南部的濒危克鲁语（刚果语），是乔治敦大学语言学家、科特迪瓦阿比让费利克斯·乌弗埃-博瓦尼大学语言学家和Guébie社区合作努力的一部分。一般来说，克鲁语的文献记载不足，尽管现存的研究表明，克鲁族的语言在类型学上表现出罕见的语言特性。其中包括：1）复杂的声调系统，有四个声调高度，其中声调区分词汇和语法对比; 2）意外的模式化内爆辅音与液体辅音一样，而不是停止; 3）大量的元音库存与多种类型的元音和谐，通常受形态句法环境的影响; 4）名词短语内的音位决定的名词类一致性。研究这四个属性和其他属性将增加科学知识，这些知识严重依赖于这些语言特征，而这些语言特征在英语，西班牙语或其印欧语系亲属中没有发现。这些模式包括一些类型学上罕见的现象，如作为格和体区别的唯一标志的标量声调交替。由于Guébie的音系目录和形态属性的非典型性，对语言的形态音位系统的完整理解有助于我们对自然语言的可能语言特征的集体理解，以及最适合建模形态音位现象的理论工具。韵律和语音特征，如Guébie所展示的那些，随着语言变得更加濒危而变得非常脆弱，这正在Guébie社区发生。该项目还促进了科特迪瓦人和美国人在全球关注的学术机构之间的紧密联系，通过帮助加强非洲的民主和治理来服务于国家利益。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。