Words, phrases, and sentences at the interface of phonology and morphosyntax

音韵学和形态句法界面上的单词、短语和句子

• 批准号: 2041248
• 负责人: Gregory Anderson
• 金额: $ 34.23万
• 依托单位: Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-15 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2041248&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Words; phrases; sentences; interface; phonology

This project is designed to determine how the basic linguistic units of language such as word, phrase, sentence can be characterized in terms of sound patterns and phenomena such as intonation or stress placement. Preliminary investigations have revealed significant mismatches between the combinatorial patterns of parts of words, i.e., what defines morphological or grammatical words, and the prosodic or phonological patterns and phenomena that are associated with such strings. This project identifies sets of prosodic and phonological features, the processes that define their domains, and how these do (or do not) interface with grammatical (morphosyntactic) and syntactic structures, as well as the role of intonation in marking focus in words, phrases, and sentences. We can then confidently hypothesize what the characteristic phonological properties of words, phrases, sentences (or any other unit) are and how these are integrated. The findings form the basis of a large searchable database serving as a resource to facilitate significant cross-linguistic comparison that opens new prospects for examining the phonology-morphosyntax interface. This project offers major opportunities for primary research in science by speakers of minority languages who are vastly underrepresented communities of scientists and thus this activity helps decolonize linguistics as a discipline.The research analyzes how basic units like word, phrase or sentence are defined phono-prosodically (distribution of sound co-occurrences and alternations, intonational patterns, etc.), based on quantitatively valid samples supported by instrumental acoustic data and incorporating potential phonetic variation across different demographic subgroups of speakers (male vs. female, young vs. middle aged vs. elderly, speakers of different regional varieties, actively bilingual speakers or not, speakers of endangered languages vs. speakers of healthy languages, etc.). The project sets the foundation for modeling the various processes of change that may have operated at different historical periods or which may be currently ongoing, whether these are due to language contact or not, thus significantly advancing typological linguistics and contact linguistics. In addition to producing the comprehensive, searchable online database, research findings are to be disseminated through publications on individual languages as well as in comparative studies.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.

这个项目的目的是确定语言的基本语言单位，如词，短语，句子可以在语音模式和现象，如语调或重音放置方面的特点。初步调查显示，单词各部分的组合模式之间存在显著的不匹配，即，什么定义形态学或语法词，以及与这些字符串相关的韵律或语音模式和现象。这个项目确定了韵律和语音特征的集合，定义它们的域的过程，以及这些与语法（形态句法）和句法结构的接口（或不接口），以及语调在标记单词，短语和句子中的焦点的作用。这样我们就可以自信地假设单词、短语、句子（或任何其他单位）的语音特征是什么，以及这些特征是如何整合的。这些发现形成了一个大型的可搜索数据库的基础，作为一种资源，以促进显着的跨语言的比较，打开了新的前景，检查语音形态句法接口。该项目为少数民族语言使用者在科学领域的初步研究提供了重要的机会，这些少数民族语言在科学界的代表性大大不足，因此这项活动有助于语言学作为一门学科的非殖民化。该研究分析了如何从语音韵律上定义基本单位，如单词，短语或句子（声音同现和交替的分布，语调模式等），基于由仪器声学数据支持的定量有效样本，并结合跨说话者的不同人口统计子组（男性对女性、年轻人对中年人对老年人、不同区域种类的说话者、活跃的双语说话者或非双语说话者、濒危语言的说话者对健康语言的说话者等）的潜在语音变化。该项目为模拟可能在不同历史时期运作或目前正在进行的各种变化过程奠定了基础，无论这些变化是否是由于语言接触，从而显着推进类型语言学和接触语言学。除了建立一个全面的、可搜索的在线数据库外，研究成果还将通过有关各种语言的出版物以及比较研究来传播。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。

项目成果

Towards a prosodic typology of the Kherwarian Munda languages: Santali of Assam

走向 Kherwarian Munda 语言的韵律类型学：阿萨姆邦的 Santali

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 30th Annual SEALS meeting.
• 作者: Horo, Luke and