Doctoral Dissertation Research: Linguistic transfer in a contact variety of Spanish: Gender agreement production and attitudes

该项目分析了持续语言接触情景中出现的非标准语言使用形式。采用诱导性和自发性语言产出的方法，分析了内隐和外显语言态度的影响。持续接触的语言经常经历语言变化，这是一种语言在另一种语言上的结果。对于在一种语言中存在而在另一种语言中没有的语法特征，这些迁移效应可能会发生。与同一种语言的非接触性变种相比，这种差异可能会导致非标准形式的使用增加。这项研究有助于在大规模分析中理解和描述非标准语言的使用，该分析系统地调查了不同教育水平、双语水平、代际和地点的语言使用情况。通过考察这些不规范的语言使用，本研究提供了重要的实证数据，说明较小的少数民族语言是否会对多数语言产生迁移效应。以前对接触环境中非标准语言使用的观察传统上将非标准形式与较低的教育水平联系在一起。这个项目通过调查年龄、母语、学校语言、教育水平以及语言环境来检验这一说法。为了调查非标准形式，说话者需要进行长达45分钟的半结构化社会语言学访谈。在一项实验任务中，受试者对非标准协议的内隐态度进行了考察，其中他们听到了标准形式和非标准形式，同时对他们听到的内容进行了评级。显性语言态度是通过受试者对两个关于他们对非标准语言使用的态度的显性问题的回答来衡量的。从本研究中获得的数据提供了丰富的数据集，包括影响非标准语言变体的社会和语言因素，以及语言态度对产出的影响。这项研究有助于更好地理解接触场景中潜在的语言变化的机制。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project analyzes non-standard forms of language use that arise in sustained language contact scenarios. Using elicited and spontaneous language production, the effects of implicit and explicit langauge attitudes are also analyzed. Languages that are in sustained contact often experience language change that is the result of one language on the other. These transfer effects may occur for grammatical features that are present in one language but absent in the other. This difference may give rise to the increased use of non-standard forms as compared to non-contact varieties of the same langauge. This research contributes to the understanding and description of non-standard language use in a large scale analysis that systematically investigates language use across levels of education, bilingual profiles, generations, and location. By examining such non-standard language use, this research contributes important empirical data on whether smaller minority languages can have transfer effects on a majority language. Prior observations on non-standard language use in contact settings have traditionally related non-standard forms to lower levels of education. This project tests this claim by investigating age, native language, language of schooling, level of education, as well as linguistic contexts. To investigate non-standard forms, speakers engage in a 45-minute-long semi-structured sociolinguistic interview. Participants’ implicit attitudes towards non-standard agreement are examined in an experimental task where they hear standard and non-standard forms, while rating what they hear. Explicit language attitudes are measured by participants' response to two explicit questions on their attitudes towards non-standard language use. The data obtained from this research provides a rich data set with comprehensive information on the social and linguistic factors that influence non-standard language variants, as well as the influence of language attitudes on production. This research contributes to a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying language change in contact scenarios.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.