Phonetic patterns of pre-adolescent English speakers' production of Italian as a Heritage Language

青春期前英语使用者将意大利语作为传统语言时的语音模式

• 批准号: 2544155
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2544155
• 关键词: Phonetic; patterns; pre; adolescent; English

This study examines the sound properties of Italian as a Heritage Language (HL) by pre-adolescent Englishspeakers. The target population are children of Italian families who are born and raised in Newcastle uponTyne. The main aim is to investigate how Age of Onset (AO) of acquisition and exposure to the HL influenceHeritage Speakers' (HS) phonological acquisition of complex (or 'marked') sounds like affricates, e.g. themiddle sound in pizza and initial sound in gioco. Results will inform theories oflanguage maintenance and will allow for evidence-based impact activities with the Italian community in thenorth east.

本研究考察了青春期前英语使用者将意大利语作为传统语言 (HL) 的声音特性。目标人群是在泰恩河畔纽卡斯尔出生和长大的意大利家庭的孩子。主要目的是调查习得和接触 HL 的发病年龄 (AO) 如何影响传统说话者 (HS) 复杂（或“标记”）的音系习得听起来像塞擦音，例如“塞擦音”。 Pizza 中的中间音和 gioco 中的初始音。结果将为语言维护理论提供信息，并将允许与东北部的意大利社区开展基于证据的影响活动。