Field Research Comparing Language Acquisition and Language Contact in Several Multilingual Communities

在这个项目中，我们在日本的几个多语言社区进行了实地考察，以比较语言习得和语言接触的方面。这三个族群分别是使用英语的小笠原（小笠原）群岛的西方人的“长期”族群、使用中国闽南话的石垣岛（冲绳）的台湾人的“中期”族群、以及使用闽南话的茨木县大洗町的台湾人的“短期”族群。由于第三个社区在2011年3月的东北大海啸中遭到破坏，我们还对三重县伊贺上野的“短期”多语言社区进行了研究。

In this project we conducted field work on several multilingual communities in Japan in order compare aspects of language acquisition and language contact in them. These were the "long-term" community of the Westerners of the Ogasawara(Bonin) Islands who use English, the "mid-term" community of the Taiwanese of Ishigaki Island(Okinawa) who use the Min-nan dialect of Chinese, and the "short-term" community of the Indonesians in Ooarai-machi, Ibaraki Prefecture who use the Minahasa dialect. Because the third community was devastated by the Great Tohoku Tsunami of March 2011, we also conducted research on the "short-term" multilingual community of Iga-Ueno in Mie Prefecture.