MINORITY PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

简而言之，我的兴趣横跨语言学和人类学领域。 这些领域之间的联系是我想研究的关系 儿童语言发展和语言保存之间的关系。的原因 我对这种关系的研究感兴趣是因为它似乎 我认为，如果没有新一代的学习，一种语言就无法保存下来。 母语为母语的人。大多数研究都认为 从社会文化或教育的角度，主要侧重于 成人导向的过程然而，我建议， 从这个新的方向来研究儿童的语言发展。在 特别是，我希望与美国原住民社区合作， 揭示失败和成功语言中的变量 采集

Briefly, my interests span the fields of linguistics and anthropology. The link between these areas is my desire to examine the relationship between child language development and language preservation. The reason I am interested in research on this relationship is because it seems to me that a language cannot be preserved without new generations acquiring the language as native speakers. Most research has viewed preservation from a socio-cultural or education perspective, focussing primarily on adult-oriented processes. I propose, however, to approach preservation from this new direction and study language development in children. In particular, I hope to work with a Native American community in an attempt to uncover variables involved in both failed and successful language acquisition.