Doctoral Dissertation Research: Linguistic Accommodation to Southern Speech

博士论文研究：南方语言的语言适应

基本信息

批准号：
1917900
负责人：
Meredith Tamminga
金额：
$ 1.71万
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：
2019
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2019-07-01 至 2021-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1917900&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Doctoral Dissertation Research Linguistic Accommodation

项目摘要

Previous linguistic research has shown that speakers accommodate by imitating the same linguistic forms they observe an interlocutor using. It is not known whether speakers also accommodate by using linguistic forms they expect from an interlocutor based on social cues, even if the forms are absent from the input. The dissertation targets a Southern variant---monophthongal /ay/---where the vowel in 'ride' sounds more like 'rod.' The project examines whether speakers produce more monophthongal /ay/ when conversing with a Southern talker who never uses the /ay/ vowel, as well as the cognitive mechanisms responsible for this behavior. Understanding how sociolinguistic expectations are formed and accessed during expectation-driven accommodation contributes to a general understanding of how social stereotypes are formed, mentally represented, and utilized.The project employs a novel word-naming game paradigm designed to elicit tokens of /ay/ from participants while exposing them to Southern speech that contains no /ay/ tokens. Acoustic properties of participants' /ay/ tokens are compared before and after exposure to a Southern or Midland (control) talker to determine whether accommodation occurs. Experiment 1 investigates whether accommodation based on expectations alone occurs. Experiment 2 tests whether expectation-driven accommodation is socially or structurally rooted by manipulating social cues (dialect labels) and structural cues (linguistic variants). Experiment 3 uses a joint perception-production task to determine whether participants exhibit /ay/-category boundary shifts, and whether such perceptual shifts predict accommodative behavior. This task attempts to pinpoint the perceptual changes that must take place for accommodation to occur, as well as understand the role of social information in both early perceptual changes and subsequent production behaviors. Self-reported surveys are paired with all three experiment to gauge the influence of social, cognitive, and attitudinal measures in accommodative behavior. Results contribute to scientific understanding of the relationship between perception and linguistic production, as well as the mental relationships between social and linguistic knowledge.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.

先前的语言研究表明，通过模仿他们观察到对话者使用的相同语言形式来适应说话者。尚不清楚说话者是否还可以通过基于社会提示的对话者期望的语言形式来适应，即使没有输入中的形式。论文以南方变种为目标---单人 /ay /----“骑行”中的元音听起来更像是“杆”。该项目研究说话者在与从未使用 / AY /元音的南方说话者交谈时，是否会产生更多的单次 / AY / / AY / / AY / / AY / / AY / / AY / / AY /。了解如何在期望驱动的住宿期间形成和访问社会语言学的期望，这有助于对社会刻板印象的形成，精神代表和利用的形成，精神代表和利用。该项目采用新颖的单词命名游戏范式，旨在激发 / ay / ay / ay / ay / ay / a的演讲中，这些游戏范围内包含 / ay / a conte no / a a / a a / a a a a a ay / ay ay ay tokens。比较参与者 / AY /令牌的声学特性在暴露于南部或中部（对照）说话者之前和之后，以确定是否发生了住宿。实验1调查是否仅根据期望就会发生住宿。实验2测试期望驱动的适应是通过操纵社会提示（方言标签）和结构提示（语言变体）在社会上还是在结构上扎根。实验3使用联合感知生产任务来确定参与者是否表现出 /ay / - 类别边界的变化，以及这种感知转移是否预测了可怜的行为。该任务试图查明要进行适应必须发生的感知变化，并了解社会信息在早期感知变化和随后的生产行为中的作用。自我报告的调查与所有三个实验配对，以衡量社会，认知和态度措施对谦虚行为的影响。结果有助于科学理解对感知与语言生产之间的关系，以及社会知识和语言知识之间的心理关系。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估评估的评估来支持的。