Collaborative Proposal: Dialect Evolution and Ongoing Variable Linguistic Input: Pacific Northwest English 200 Years After Lewis and Clark

美国西北部(包括华盛顿州、俄勒冈州、爱达荷州和犹他州)是美洲原住民、欧洲人、亚洲人和其他影响的丰富历史的产物。太平洋西北英语(PNWE)项目探索英语方言在美国这一地区的发展程度。太平洋西北部的故事是一个不断定居和移民的故事。尽管可以找到一些历史上与世隔绝的社区，但大多数西北部人生活的地方，他们的声音与不同背景的人混在一起。在刘易斯和克拉克历史性的太平洋沿岸航行两百年后，西北地区是否已经建立了足够长的时间来拥有独特的方言特征？正在进行的定居点的历史是否使它成为美国最真实的大熔炉？美洲原住民、非裔美国人、斯堪的纳维亚人、亚洲人、东海岸美国人和其他人在多大程度上影响了这一地区的语言？这个项目的第一阶段调查了西雅图大都会地区人们的谈话方式。面对面的语音数据将从两个不同社区的西雅图人那里收集(一个是历史悠久的社区，另一个是新来的社区)。此外，还将通过电话采访一小部分西雅图居民。这些受试者将是西雅图以英语为母语的居民(不一定是西雅图人)，并将被包括在内，以描绘西雅图现有的各种方言的总体情况。除了这些说话者之外，还将从西雅图一个历史悠久的社区的一小部分非裔美国人说英语的人中收集数据，以考察种族在影响太平洋西北部英语方面所起的作用。

The Northwestern United States (including Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Utah) is the product of a rich history of Native American, European, Asian, and other influences. The Pacific Northwest English (PNWE) project explores the extent of English dialect development in this region of the United States. The story of the Pacific Northwest is one of constant settlement and immigration. Although a few pockets of historically-isolated communities can be found, most Northwesterners live in places where their voices intermingle with people of different backgrounds. Two hundred years after Lewis and Clark's historic voyage to the Pacific coast, has the Northwest been established long enough to have unique dialect features? Has the history of ongoing settlement made it the truest of American melting-pots? How much have Native-Americans, African-Americans, Scandinavians, Asians, East-coast Americans, and others shaped the speech of this region? The first phase of this project examines the way people talk in the Seattle metropolitan area. In-person speech data will be collected from Seattleites in 2 different neighborhoods (one historically established, the other populated by newcomers). In addition, a small sample of Seattle residents will be interviewed by telephone. These subjects will be native English-speaking residents of Seattle (not necessarily native Seattleites) and will be included in order to paint a picture of the range of dialects present in Seattle in general. In addition to these speakers, data will be collected from a small sample of African-American speakers from one long-established Seattle neighborhood in order to examine the role that ethnicity plays in influencing the English of the Pacific Northwest.