Sociophonetic investigations of the German multi-ethnolect

本项目旨在对(多)民族青年言语的发音形态进行系统的社会语音和社会语言学分析，补充现有的(多民族)形态句法的社会语言学知识。上个世纪末，在几个欧洲城市，某些具有所谓移民背景的年轻说话者(部分还有他们的网络同龄人)中出现了特殊的说话方式，并在学术文献中以不同的标签进行了描述，多民族语言是最频繁使用的一种。大多数研究涉及语篇、词汇和语法现象，而很少有学者研究发音问题。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)，该项目将重点放在多民族讲话的声音形状上。在该项目中，将建立一个数据库，其中包含斯图加特市演讲者的各种演讲材料。将从两个不同的社区(一个多民族，一个相对单一民族)招募14-17岁和具有相似社会和教育背景的青少年，并将记录在不同的言语活动中，从自发对话到受控阅读言语。将对数据样本进行声学和听觉语音分析，以确定在单一民族控制组的背景下，多民族群体中社会语音变异的类型和数量。知觉实验以及与民族语言声音特征的发生和抑制有关的情景和交互参数的研究将有助于对这种变异的社会解释。该项目将与瑞士-德国多民族语言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.