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Building Infrastructure for Longitudinal Speech Data Collection

构建纵向语音数据收集基础设施

基本信息

批准号：
2119975
负责人：
Elizabeth Sneller
金额：
$ 26.58万
依托单位：
Michigan State 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 2025-01-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2119975&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Building Infrastructure Longitudinal Speech Data

项目摘要

Recordings of natural speech are crucial for research on a wide-range of topics in the language sciences. Audio diaries can form an important source for data, especially for research at the interface of language and society. Audio recording allows diarists to express themselves in ordinary and casual ways, giving language researchers a clearer view of everyday language in the past and the present. More generally, diaries have long been important tools in human history for recording events and experiences, providing information that can contribute to the understanding of cultural heritage. This project builds on a pilot study that began in April 2020, capturing people's day-to-day experience of the COVID pandemic and beyond. Diarists use a custom mobile app to record their spoken diary entry. Mobile apps democratize data collection by making it easy for anyone to contribute as a citizen scientist. App code is made public, for other scientists to adapt for their own use. Anonymized audio and transcripts are made available to the public and other researchers in perpetuity via a public library repository. This award supports the improvement and expansion of the remote audio diaries infrastructure to optimize participant recruitment and retention through the development of improved app technology and long-term community partnerships with youth organizations. These self-recorded audio diaries provide several benefits for linguistic research. First, researchers can obtain data from participants across a wide geographic area, enabling a large-scale analysis of ongoing language changes. Second, repeated entries from the same speakers enable researchers to track individual participation in community-level sound change in real time. Third, leveraging the genre of diary entries results in important personal social insights from speakers, enriching the understanding of the relationship between linguistic and social processes. The data collected enable researchers to test existing hypotheses about preteen sociolinguistic calibration, by comparing variability of ongoing sound changes in child, preteen, and teenage speakers' language production. Existing hypotheses regarding post-adolescent participation in ongoing sound change can also be tested. The success of this infrastructure will facilitate continuous collection of data beyond the requested funding period.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.

自然语言的录音对于语言科学中广泛的主题研究至关重要。有声日记是一种重要的数据来源，尤其对于语言与社会的交互研究而言。录音可以让日记作者以普通和随意的方式表达自己，让语言研究者更清楚地了解过去和现在的日常语言。更广泛地说，日记一直是人类历史上记录事件和经历的重要工具，提供有助于理解文化遗产的信息。该项目建立在2020年4月开始的一项试点研究的基础上，该研究记录了人们在COVID大流行及其后的日常经历。日记者使用定制的手机应用程序记录他们的口语日记条目。移动应用程序使数据收集民主化，使任何人都可以轻松地作为公民科学家做出贡献。应用程序代码是公开的，其他科学家可以根据自己的需要进行修改。匿名的音频和文本将通过公共图书馆永久提供给公众和其他研究人员。该奖项支持远程音频日记基础设施的改进和扩展，通过开发改进的应用程序技术和与青年组织的长期社区合作伙伴关系，优化参与者的招募和保留。这些自录的音频日记为语言学研究提供了几个好处。首先，研究人员可以从广泛地理区域的参与者那里获得数据，从而对正在进行的语言变化进行大规模分析。其次，来自同一发言者的重复条目使研究人员能够实时跟踪个人参与社区级别的声音变化。第三，利用日记的体裁可以从说话者那里获得重要的个人社会见解，丰富了对语言和社会过程之间关系的理解。收集的数据使研究人员能够通过比较儿童、青春期前和青少年说话者语言产生的持续声音变化的可变性，来测试关于青春期前社会语言学校准的现有假设。现有的关于青春期后参与正在进行的声音变化的假设也可以得到检验。这一基础设施的成功将有助于在所要求的供资期之后继续收集数据。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。