Conference: Georgetown University Round Table 2021 on Dialect Contact

该项目包括以“方言接触”为主题的语言和语言学圆桌会议。当相互理解的语言变体的说话者进行互动时，就会发生方言接触，这种接触的结果对语言学和其他语言科学领域的许多主题都是重要的。研究个别说话者的行为的学者发现，无论是在实验室环境中，还是在长期流动的结果下，人们都会改变他们的语言，使其变得与他们互动的人更相似，而且这些调整受到各种语言和社会态度因素的调节。专注于社区层面方言变化的学者们展示了接触如何改变方言的结构，以及语言复杂性等因素如何影响哪些特征持续存在，哪些特征不存在。因此，方言接触可以被视为一种个人层面或社区层面的现象；一种认知过程或一种社会过程。但这两个层面的分析是分不开的：任何个人的语言系统都是由他们的社会背景塑造的，而社区方言最终是由个人说话者说的。为了充分理解方言接触的机制和结果，不同取向的学者需要聚集在一起，分享方法论、实证结果、理论途径和未来研究的途径。这次会议将为致力于方言接触某些方面的学者提供一个独特的机会，让他们齐聚一堂，分享方法论、实证结果、理论方法以及未来研究和合作的途径。其目的是将来自不同分支学科的研究人员聚集在一起--语音学家、实验室音系学家、心理语言学家、社会语言学家和理论语言学家--以及那些使用基于主体的建模或神经语言学方法研究方言接触的人。这种互动将有助于提供跨学科方法的富有成效的交叉授粉，并有可能促进新的合作。会议将包括全体演讲者、个人陈述和来自不同角度的小组提案。为了支持对该领域的长期影响，将支持研究生和早期就业学者的参与。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。

This project consists of a roundtable on language and linguistics on the theme of "Dialect Contact". Dialect contact occurs whenever speakers of mutually intelligible language varieties interact, and the outcomes of such contact are important for many topics in linguistics and other areas of language sciences. Scholars who examine the behavior of individual speakers find that people change their speech to become more similar to those they interact with, both in laboratory contexts and as a result of long-term mobility, and that these adjustments are mediated by various linguistic and social-attitudinal factors. Scholars who focus on community-level dialect change show how contact alters the structure of dialects and how factors like language complexity influence which features persist and which do not. Dialect contact can thus be approached as an individual-level or a community-level phenomenon; a cognitive process or a social one. But these two levels of analysis are inseparable: any individual’s language system is shaped by their social context, and community dialects are, ultimately, spoken by individual speakers. To fully understand the mechanisms and outcomes of dialect contact, scholars with different orientations need to come together and share methodologies, empirical findings, theoretical approaches, and avenues for future research. This conference will provide a unique opportunity for the wide range of scholars working on some aspect of dialect contact to come together and share methodologies, empirical findings, theoretical approaches, and avenues for future research and collaborations. The aim is to bring together researchers from across a broad range of subdisciplines - phoneticians, laboratory phonologists, psycholinguists, sociolinguists, and theoretical linguists - as well as those who examine dialect contact using agent-based modelling or neurolinguistic methodologies. This interaction will help to provide fruitful cross-pollinations across disciplinary approaches and potentially foster new collaborations. The conference will include plenary speakers, individual presentations, and panel proposals from a range of perspectives. In order to support a long-term impact on the field, graduate student and early-career scholar participation will be supported.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.