The Postlexical Prosody of Central Alaskan Yupik

这是一个研究阿拉斯加中部尤皮克语词汇后韵律的语音和音系元素的项目;它们相互之间的分布以及独立动机的句法和话语结构;以及它们的意义，即，它们的语用价值和它们在构建各种自然发生的言语中的用途。 项目工作包括：（a）两次为期三周的实地考察，前往阿拉斯加州的Chevak，一个讲阿拉斯加中部尤皮克方言的村庄，以构建和记录一组话语，其中词汇后韵律的潜在独立决定因素系统地变化，并检查来自Chevak的口头文学和其他演讲的现有录音中的韵律用法;（B）在P.I.对诱发录音和自然主义录音进行工具分析和其他语言分析。的大本营;和（c）一段时间的写作导致一本书的项目的主题。 该项目预计将有意义（a）文件和描述的阿拉斯加中部Yupik语言，这是一种正在迅速成为垂死的，因为越来越少的孩子学习它;（B）后词汇韵律理论，通过贡献一个案例研究和探索的想法，句法，语篇结构和解释直接决定个人韵律元素的分布;（c）韵律学方法，通过使用来自重复启发和自然话语的定量数据，确定并行研究分布和使用的重要性;（d）（通过上述方法）促进对各种语言的研究，特别是那些在"实地“研究和面临灭绝的语言。

This is a project to study the phonetic and phonological elements of Central Alaskan Yupik postlexical prosody; their distribution with respect to each other and with respect to independently motivated syntactic and discourse structures; and their meaning, i.e., their pragmatic value and their use in framing naturally occurring speech of various kinds. Project work involves: (a) two 3-week field trips to Chevak, Alaska, a village where a particular dialect of Central Alaskan Yupik is spoken, in order to construct and record sets of utterances in which potentially independent determinants of postlexical prosody are systematically varied, and to examine prosodic usage in already-existing recordings from Chevak of oral literature and other speech; (b) instrumental and other linguistic analysis of both elicited and naturalistic recordings at the P.I.'s home base; and (c) a period of writing leading to a book on the project's topic. The project is expected to have significance for (a) the documentation and description of Central Alaskan Yupik, a language that is rapidly becoming moribund as fewer and fewer children learn it; (b) the theory of postlexical prosody, by contributing a case study and by exploring the idea that syntax, discourse structure, and interpretation directly determine the distributions of individual prosodic elements; (c) prosodic methodology, by establishing the importance of studying distribution and use side by side, using quantitative data from both repetitive elicitation and natural discourse; and (d) the promotion (via the foregoing) of research on a wide range of languages, especially those studied in the 'field' and faced with imminent extinction.