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.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》的全部或部分资助（公共法117-2）。理解语言变化的发生方式以及为什么发生对理解人类语言本质至关重要。成年人最近的工作发现，个人参加的高中类型可以影响该人如何参与与位置连接的语言特征（例如区域口音）。但是，尽管青少年经常带来语言变化，但高中学生本身的高中选择影响仍然不足。该博士论文项目基于以前对当前在美国英语中发生的重要区域声音变化的工作，通过研究社会协会如何将青少年如何归因于正在发生变化的特征与他们自己使用这些特征的特征以及不同类型学校中的社交环境如何影响与这些特征的社会含义有关，这些社会环境与这些特征和其他区域语言特征有关。除了培训博士生外，结果还将与参与者和社区成员公开分享。通过社会语言访谈，社会评估任务以及与不同类型高中青少年的感知方言学任务，该项目为高中生归因于一组特定的区域强调特征提供了新的，更深入的见解。探索青少年对语言特征的社会含义的理解与他们在学校的社会环境以及其位置，种族化和分类的身份有关的探索反过来，反过来将增强我们对语言变化过程中工作的机制（无论是社会和语言）的理解。这一奖项在奖励的过程中均表现了NSF的法定任务和范围的范围。