A Sociolinguistic Study of Potential Bidialectalism

本研究透过对第二方言习得的社会语言学分析，探讨双方言现象的可能性。社会语言学研究了双语现象，对语言能力的模型进行了重要的修正;然而，双方言主义避免了经验主义的社会语言学调查。社会语言学对风格转换进行了深入的研究，教育界和言语病理学界也对双方言现象进行了大量的讨论，但没有语言学研究探讨风格转换何时结束，双方言现象何时开始开始，双方言现象的原则是什么，或者双方言现象是否在人类身上存在。在一项实证调查中，本项目旨在评估方言习得，以确定双方言的边界及其对语言能力的影响。在这个项目中，20个来自南方方言区的人被引入到北方方言区，他们将接受采访，以收集他们的方言实时变化的数据。该项目的重点是如何以及如果扬声器组织他们的生产方言功能作为离散集或他们的方言功能是否融入生产。定性描述和定量变异分析模型被应用到新兴的数据，和语言变异的客观分析是通过分析从主观说话人识别任务获得的数据来实现的。此外，在各种语音情况下收集的数据将被用于检查方言习得过程中的语内变异。这个项目提供了关于语言能力如何在针对第二种方言的功能，在语言能力的社会语言学变化的轨迹，以及双方言的语言和社会边界的重要见解。

This project investigates the possibility of bidialectalism through sociolinguistic analysis of second dialect acquisition. Sociolinguistics has studied bilingualism, providing important revisions to models of the language faculty; however, bidialectalism has avoided empirical sociolinguistic investigation. Style-shifting is well researched in sociolinguistics, and bidialectalism has been much discussed in education and speech pathology circles, but no linguistic study has taken up the question of when style-shifting may end and bidialectalism begin, what the principles governing bidialectalism might be, or if bidialectalism is even humanly possible. In an empirical investigation, this project aims to assess dialect acquisition to determine the boundaries of bidialectalism and its implications for the language faculty. In this project, twenty speakers from a southern dialect region introduced into a northern dialect area will be interviewed to gather data on real-time changes in their idiolects. The project focuses on how and if the speakers organize their production of dialect features as discrete sets or whether their dialect features blend in production. Qualitative-descriptive and quantitative-variationist analytical models are applied to the emerging data, and the objective analysis of language variation is implemented by the analysis of data obtained from subjective speaker identification tasks. In addition, data gathered in a variety of speech situations will be utilized in the examination of intraspeaker variation in the dialect acquisition process. This project provides important insights about how the language faculty functions in targeting a second dialect, the locus of sociolinguistic variation in the language faculty, and the linguistic and social boundaries of bidialectalism.