Trilingual language contact in an Indigenous community

原住民社区的三语语言接触

• 批准号: DP150101201
• 负责人: Prof Felicity Meakins
• 金额: $ 20.39万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-04-01 至 2019-12-01
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP150101201
• 关键词: Trilingual; language; contact; Indigenous; community

The linguistic cradle of many Aboriginal children in remote Australia is a multilingual setting involving considerable mixing between languages. Children bring this linguistic background to the task of learning English. This project is the first investigation of a trilingual Indigenous community, Elliott (Northern Territory), where children grow up hearing Jingulu, Mudburra and Kriol. It aims to examine how people at Elliott manage multiple languages and how these languages have changed through mixing processes such as creolisation and code-switching. Exploring this dynamic language ecology is crucial to tailoring educational programs to suit the needs of Aboriginal children. It is expected to place Australia at the forefront of studies of complex language change.

澳大利亚偏远地区许多土著儿童的语言摇篮是一个多语言环境，涉及多种语言的大量混合。孩子们把这种语言背景带到学习英语的任务中。该项目是对三语土著社区Elliott（北领地）的首次调查，那里的儿童在听到Jingulu，Mudburra和Kriol的情况下长大。它旨在研究埃利奥特的人们如何管理多种语言，以及这些语言如何通过混合过程（如克里奥尔化和代码转换）发生变化。探索这种动态的语言生态对于调整教育方案以适应土著儿童的需求至关重要。预计澳大利亚将处于复杂语言变化研究的前沿。