Doctoral Dissertation Research: High school choice and the social meanings of a sound change in language

博士论文研究：高中选择与语言健全变化的社会意义

• 批准号: 2116957
• 负责人: Annette D'Onofrio
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Northwestern 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: 2021-08-01 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2116957&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; choice; social

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Understanding how and why language change occurs is central to understanding the nature of human language. Recent work among adults has found that the type of high school an individual attends can influence how that person engages with place-linked linguistic features (such as regional accents). However, although adolescents often lead linguistic change, the impacts of high school choice remain under-examined among high school students themselves. This doctoral dissertation project builds upon previous work on an important regional sound change currently occurring in American English by examining how the social associations adolescents attribute to the features undergoing change relate to their own use of these features and how the social environments within different types of schools might influence the social meanings that are associated with these and other regional linguistic features. In addition to the training of a doctoral student, results will be shared publicly with participants and community members. Through sociolinguistic interviews, social evaluation tasks, and perceptual dialectology tasks with adolescents in different types of high schools, this project provides new and deeper insights into the social meanings that high school students attribute to a specific set of regional accent features. The exploration of how adolescents' own understandings of the social meanings of linguistic features relate to their social environments in school and their placed, racialized, and classed identities will in turn enhance our understanding of the mechanisms – both social and linguistic – at work during the course of language changes.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.

该奖项全部或部分由2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。了解语言变化的方式和原因对于理解人类语言的本质至关重要。最近在成年人中的研究发现，一个人所上的高中类型会影响这个人如何与与地方相关的语言特征（如地区口音）打交道。然而，虽然青少年往往导致语言的变化，高中选择的影响仍然在高中学生自己的研究不足。 这个博士论文项目建立在以前的工作上一个重要的区域声音变化目前发生在美国英语通过研究如何社会协会青少年属性的功能正在发生变化，涉及到他们自己使用这些功能，以及如何在不同类型的学校的社会环境可能会影响社会意义，与这些和其他区域语言特征。除了博士生的培训，结果将与参与者和社区成员公开分享。通过社会语言学访谈、社会评价任务和感知方言任务，本项目对不同类型高中的青少年提供了新的和更深入的见解，高中生归因于一组特定的地方口音特征的社会意义。本研究旨在探讨青少年对语言特征社会意义的理解与他们所处的学校社会环境以及他们所处的社会环境、种族化、而分类身份反过来又会增强我们对社会和语言机制的理解，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。