Doctoral Dissertation Research: Production, Perception, and Acquisition of New Dialect Features by Speakers Moving Between Two Regions

博士论文研究：在两个地区之间移动的说话者对新方言特征的产生、感知和习得

• 批准号: 2041126
• 负责人: Jennifer Nycz
• 金额: $ 1.12万
• 依托单位: Georgetown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-02-15 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2041126&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Production; Perception

When speakers of different dialects interact, their specific dialect features may change over time. The motivation for such changes can be due to many interrelated developmental, linguistic and social factors. This doctoral dissertation improvement research grant-funded project will investigate new dialect acquisition by mobile people relocating between two regions, one urban and characterized by a prestigious dialect, and one rural, whose dialect is stigmatized. Studies of dialect contact have been rare in comparison to studies of language contact, but such studies provide key opportunities to understand the processes of language change and the outcomes of contact situations broadly. This study will contribute new knowledge about how people are capable of learning and using new language forms and how speech sounds and words are represented in the mind. Language samples from participants in each region will be collected according to gender, age, and length of residence in the new region. These and other social characteristics such as age of arrival, education level, occupation, social network, and language attitude will be examined for their possible effects on dialect acquisition. Each mobile speaker will take part in four activities: a conversational interview, reading a list of sentences, words, and minimal pairs. Importantly, by having an interview about the participants' experience growing up in their hometown and their experience in moving to a new region, this study can examine how participants vary their speech according to different topics. Transcriptions of interviews and associated audio files will ultimately form the basis of a corpus which will be shared with other researchers who are interested in the study of second dialect acquisition and variation within the studied language. This corpus will also be of value for related purposes, such as for forensic linguistics. Finally, by observing how both first dialect and second dialect features are used, this study will examine how speakers use linguistic features to craft identity-related meanings.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.

当不同方言的使用者互动时，他们的方言特征可能会随着时间的推移而发生变化。这种变化的动机可能是由于许多相互关联的发展，语言和社会因素。这篇博士论文改进研究补助金资助的项目将调查新的方言收购由移动的人搬迁之间的两个地区，一个城市，并具有声望的方言，一个农村，其方言是污名化。与语言接触的研究相比，方言接触的研究很少，但这样的研究提供了广泛了解语言变化过程和接触情况结果的关键机会。这项研究将为人们如何学习和使用新的语言形式以及语音和单词如何在头脑中呈现提供新的知识。每个地区的语言样本将根据性别、年龄和在新地区居住的时间收集。这些和其他社会特征，如年龄，教育水平，职业，社会网络，语言态度将被检查他们可能对方言习得的影响。每个移动的演讲者将参加四项活动：对话式采访，阅读一系列句子、单词和最小配对。重要的是，通过对参与者在家乡长大的经历和他们搬到一个新地区的经历进行采访，本研究可以研究参与者如何根据不同的主题改变他们的演讲。访谈和相关音频文件的翻译最终将形成语料库的基础，该语料库将与其他对第二方言习得和所研究语言中的变异感兴趣的研究人员共享。该语料库也将为相关目的，如法律语言学的价值。最后，通过观察第一方言和第二方言的特点是如何使用的，本研究将探讨说话人如何使用语言特征，以工艺身份相关的meanings.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估的支持。