Intonation and word order in majority English and heritage Russian across speaker populations

大多数英语和传统俄语人群中的语调和词序

• 批准号: 394844953
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Sabine Zerbian
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Linguistik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/394844953?language=en
• 关键词: Intonation; word; order; majority; English

The project investigates non-canonical intonation in its relation to syntax (i.e. word order) and information structure (i.e. focus, givenness), focusing on the language contact involving Russian as heritage language and English as majority language in the U.S. The project looks at the two languages of heritage speakers and compares them to monolingual native speakers, adopting a new approach in research on intonation in heritage languages. What is more, it investigates intonation in formal vs. informal speech because research on monolingual speech has shown that there are phonetic correlates of register. These need to be differentiated from grammatical aspects of intonation. Finally, intonation will be investigated for different age groups, thereby addressing the question of how stable intonational differences are over (part of) the life span. In line with RUEG’s overarching approach, the project investigates non-canonical prosody in three Joint Ventures (short: “JV”): addressing the systematicity of new intonational patterns (JVI: “Language Change Hypothesis”), their occurrence at internal (syntax) versus external (information structure) interfaces (JVII: “Interface Hypothesis”), and, by including further comparisons beyond English-Russian contact, their contact-linguistic source in transfer or general contact-induced change versus language-internal dynamics or general developments (JVIII: “Internal Dynamics Hypothesis”).

该项目研究非规范语调与句法的关系（即词序）和信息结构（即重点，给予），重点是语言接触，涉及俄罗斯作为遗产语言和英语作为多数语言在美国该项目着眼于两种语言的遗产发言人，并比较他们的单语母语，采用新的研究方法对传统语言的语调进行研究。此外，由于对单语语音的研究表明语域存在语音关联，本文还对正式和非正式语音中的语调进行了研究。这些需要从语调的语法方面加以区分。最后，语调将调查不同年龄组，从而解决如何稳定的语调差异是在（部分）寿命的问题。根据RUEG的总体方法，该项目调查了三个合资企业的非规范韵律（简称：“JV”）：解决新语调模式的系统性（JVI：“语言变化假设”），它们在内部（语法）与外部的发生（信息结构）接口（五十七：“界面假说”），并通过包括超越英语和俄语接触的进一步比较，他们的接触语言源迁移或一般接触引起的变化与语言内部动态或一般发展（JVIII：“内部动力假说”）。