Doctoral Dissertation Research: Parent Input Effects on Heritage Speakers Knowledge of Mood Selection

博士论文研究：父母输入对传统说话者情绪选择知识的影响

• 批准号: 2115689
• 负责人: Almeida Toribio
• 金额: $ 1.14万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 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: 2021-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2115689&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Parent; Input

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). Heritage language speakers, who grow up in household where a minority language is used in addition to the society's majority language, have a grammatical system that differs in patterned ways from monolingual speakers and those learning the heritage language as a second language, but many questions remain about the nature of this process. Characterizing and explaining what aspects of the language's grammar are most commonly changed, and where in the transmission process these changes occur is a longstanding question. Heritage grammars have been primarily studied in adult bilinguals in university settings, and group differences are assumed to occur at the level of the child. However, parents' grammars have also been shown to change over speakers' lifespans. Direct evidence of language performance from child and parent speakers can inform which structures were present but not acquired and which structures were absent from the input itself. Statistical methodological advances can aid in understanding questions of parent-child input/transfer related to language transmission. By studying these small-scale intergenerational changes in speakers' grammatical representations and the speaker characteristics involved, this study contributes to an understanding of bilingual acquisition processes.This study uses a dyadic design (1 parent, 1 child), which offers novel methodological and analytical contributions to the study of heritage grammars. Parent–child input transfer is explored through the comprehension–production of mood selection (indicative vs. subjunctive), a well-established variable phenomenon, in the heritage language through timed acceptability ratings and an elicited production task. The study examines 1) child–parent mood selection, 2) the effect of internal (categorical vs. variable contexts) and external factors (e.g., speakers' language experience and proficiency), and 3) the direct effect of parent's use of mood on child production. Statistical models including dyadic analyses will directly test the effect of parent mood production on child comprehension and the individual factors that contribute to members' own performance.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.

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。传统语言的使用者，他们在使用少数民族语言的家庭中长大，除了社会上的多数民族语言之外，他们的语法系统在模式上不同于单语使用者和那些学习传统语言作为第二语言的人，但这个过程的性质仍然存在许多问题。描述和解释语言语法的哪些方面最常发生变化，以及在传播过程中这些变化发生的地方是一个长期存在的问题。传统语法主要在大学环境中的成人双语者中进行研究，并且假设组差异发生在儿童水平上。然而，父母的语法也被证明会随着说话者的寿命而改变。来自儿童和父母说话者的语言表现的直接证据可以告知哪些结构存在但没有获得，哪些结构在输入本身中缺失。统计方法的进步可以帮助理解与语言传递相关的亲子输入/转移问题。本研究通过研究这些小规模的代际变化，在说话人的语法表征和所涉及的扬声器的特点，有助于理解双语习得过程。本研究采用了一对设计（一个父母，一个孩子），这提供了新的方法和分析贡献的遗产语法的研究。本文通过对传统语言中的语气选择（指示性与虚拟性）的理解-产生，通过定时的可接受性评级和引出的产生任务，探讨了亲子输入迁移。该研究考察了1）父母对孩子的情绪选择，2）内部（分类与可变背景）和外部因素（例如，（3）父母的情绪运用对儿童语言产出的直接影响。包括二元分析在内的统计模型将直接测试父母情绪对儿童理解力的影响，以及影响成员自身表现的个人因素。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。