Historical Databases of African American English and Gullah

在20世纪30年代和40年代，两个相当大的非裔美国人群体接受了美国语言地图集项目的采访：1）1933年，洛伦佐·特纳在南卡罗来纳州和格鲁吉亚的七个县对说古拉语的人进行了21次采访; 2）盖伊·洛曼和瑞文·麦克戴维从马里兰州南部到格鲁吉亚共完成了32次采访。这些发言者的反应被转录在精细的IPA语音印象。这个项目将把这些受访者的回答，加上1960年代和1970年代为《语言地图集》采访的另外9名非洲裔美国人的回答，输入一个计算机数据库。将可在现有的语文地图册网址上进入数据库，该网址每月的点击次数已超过10 000次。公众和学者都将能够浏览和搜索非裔美国人和格勒人的材料，就像他们现在能够从《中大西洋和南大西洋国家语言地图集》中获取数据一样;他们还将能够在数据库中绘制“谁在哪里说了什么”的地图。学者们随时可以访问这个大型的，一致的语料库的历史非洲裔美国人的英语应该有可能新的分析词汇和发音，可以评论的起源和性质的当代非洲裔美国人的白话英语。

During the 1930s and 1940s two sizable groups of African Americans were interviewed with the work sheets of the American Linguistic Atlas Project: 1) in 1933 Lorenzo Turner conducted 21 interviews among Gullah speakers in seven South Carolina and Georgia counties; 2) Guy Lowman and Raven McDavid completed a total of 32 interviews from Maryland south to Georgia. The responses of these speakers were transcribed impressionistically in fine IPA phonetics. This project will enter the responses for these informants, plus the responses of nine more African Americans interviewed for the Linguistic Atlas in the 1 960s and 1 970s, into a computer database. Access to the database will be enabled on the existing Linguistic Atlas Web site, which is already receiving over 10,000 `hits` per month. The general public and scholars alike will be able to browse and search the African American and Gullah materials in the same way that they now can access data from the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States; they will also be able to make maps of `who said what where` within the database. Ready access by scholars to this large, consistent corpus of historical African American English should make possible new analyses of the lexicon and pronunciation which can comment on the origins and nature of contemporary African American Vernacular English.