Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of phonology and phonetics by multilingual children and adults

多语言儿童和成人习得音韵学和语音学的跨语言影响

• 批准号: 349906019
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Ulrike Gut
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Englisches Seminar
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/349906019?language=en
• 关键词: Cross; linguistic; influence; acquisition; phonology

Multilingualism is becoming the norm for European citizens due to the educational policies that introduce two foreign languages at school on a mass scale, due to increasing opportunities in foreign exchange programme as well as a growing job-related mobility. Although the investigation of the mutual influence of the different languages that a multilingual speaker knows has been one of the main research objectives in language acquisition studies, the phenomenon of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) is still far from being well understood. Especially the exploration of the factors influencing the frequency, direction and form of CLI is still in its infancy. This project investigates phonological and phonetic cross-linguistic influence in 20 multilingual speakers, both children and adults, with the language combination of German, English, French/Latin and Polish. The study uses a 10-month longitudinal design with four data collection points at which language production and perception will be tested for each participant. This will be augmented by a 14-week period of dense data collection for two adult participants. In particular, the intricate relationship between phonological and phonetic CLI in multilinguals and its conditioning factors such as age/age of acquisition, proficiency in second language (L2) and third language (L3), language distance/perceived language distance, metalinguistic awareness, recency of use and L2 status will be examined. Also, the dynamic relationship between the factors themselves will be investigated and a hierarchy of factors triggering phonological CLI will be established. This project will thus carry out, in the framework of Dynamic Systems Theory, the first large-scale longitudinal study to obtain authentic developmental data on the acquisition of Polish as an L3, which is crucial for the understanding and theoretical modelling of the acquisition processes during language learning in a typical classroom environment.

由于在学校大规模引入两门外语的教育政策，由于外国交流项目的机会增加以及与工作相关的流动性增加，多语言正在成为欧洲公民的常态。虽然研究多语者所掌握的不同语言之间的相互影响一直是语言习得研究的主要目标之一，但人们对跨语言影响现象的认识还远远不够。特别是对影响命令行频率、方向和形式的因素的探索还处于初级阶段。该项目调查了20名多语言使用者的语音和语音跨语言影响，包括儿童和成人，语言组合为德语，英语，法语/拉丁语和波兰语。这项研究采用了为期10个月的纵向设计，有四个数据收集点，每个参与者的语言产生和感知将被测试。这将通过对两名成年参与者进行为期14周的密集数据收集来增强。特别是，多语者语音和语音CLI之间的复杂关系及其制约因素，如年龄/习得年龄、第二语言和第三语言熟练程度、语言距离/感知语言距离、元语言意识、使用频率和第二语言状态，将被检查。此外，本研究亦将探讨各因素之间的动态关系，并建立触发语音命令行因素的层次结构。因此，该项目将在动态系统理论的框架下进行第一次大规模的纵向研究，以获得作为L3语言的波兰语习得的真实发展数据，这对于在典型的课堂环境中理解语言学习过程和理论建模至关重要。