Sociophonetic investigations of the German multi-ethnolect

本项目旨在对（多）民族青年言语的音形进行系统的社会语音学和社会语言学分析，以补充现有的（多）民族形态句法的社会语言学知识。在上世纪末的几个欧洲城市中，某些具有所谓移民背景的年轻说话者群体（部分也包括他们没有这种背景的网络同龄人）中出现的特殊说话方式被注意到，并在学术文献中以不同的标签进行了描述，多民族是最常用的标签。大多数研究都涉及语篇、词汇和语法现象，而很少有学者对语音进行研究。考虑到口音是索引社会身份的主要线索之一（因此也是社会分类的主要线索），该项目将侧重于多民族语言的音形。在该项目中，将建立一个数据库，其中包含来自斯图加特市演讲者的各种演讲材料。研究人员将从两个不同的社区（一个是多种族社区，一个是相对单一种族社区）招募年龄在14-17岁、具有相当社会和教育背景的青少年，并记录他们不同的语言活动，从自发的对话到受控的阅读语言。将对数据样本进行声学和听觉语音分析，以便在单种族控制组的背景下确定多种族群体中社会语音变化的类型和数量。感知实验以及与民族声音特征的发生和抑制相关的情境和相互作用参数的研究将揭示这种变化的社会解释。该项目将与一个关于瑞士-德国多民族言论的类似项目密切合作进行。

This project aims at a systematic sociophonetic and sociolinguistic analysis of the sound shape of (multi-)ethnic young speech, adding to existing sociolinguistic knowledge of (multi-ethnolectal morphosyntax. The appearance of particular ways of speaking among certain groups of young speakers with so-called migration background (and partly also their network peers without such background) became noted towards the end of the last century in several European cities and has been described in the scholarly literature under different labels, multi-ethnolect being the most frequently used one. Most of the studies have dealt with discourse, lexical and grammatical phenomena, while only few scholars have addressed pronunciation. Considering that accent is one of the primary cues for indexing social identities (and hence also for social categorization), the project will focus on the sound shape of multi-ethnic speech. In the project a database will be composed, containing a variety of speech materials from speakers in the city of Stuttgart. Adolescents aged 14-17 and of comparable social and educational background will be recruited from two different neighborhoods (one multi-ethnic, one relatively mono-ethnic) and will be recorded in different speech activities, ranging from spontaneous conversation to controlled read speech. Acoustic and auditory phonetic analyses will be carried out on samples of the data in order to determine the type and amount of sociophonetic variation in the multi-ethnic group against the background of the mono-ethnic control group. Perception experiments as well as a study of the situational and interactional parameters related to the occurrence and suppression of ethnolectal sound features will shed light on the social interpretation of such variation.The project will be carried out in close cooperation with a similar project on Swiss-German multi-ethnolectal speech.