NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) for FY 2013 in New Zealand

这项行动资助宾夕法尼亚大学的伊丽莎白·斯内勒在2013年夏天在新西兰基督城的坎特伯雷大学进行社会、行为和经济学科学领域的研究项目。 该项目的名称是“PROICE是ROIGHT：新西兰英语元音移位的纵向声学分析。“主持科学家是贝丝·休姆博士。这个项目使用自动元音提取来分析元音的轨迹在新西兰英语的整个时间跨度由新西兰英语（ONZE）语料库在坎特伯雷大学举行的起源。根据Labov（1961）的表观时间理论，本语料库提供了研究新西兰世纪语音变化的机会。这个项目提供了一个时间轴和视觉表示元音子系统的声学变化随着时间的推移。它还提供了一个元音转换的分析，如种族，性别和社会经济地位等社会因素的影响，提供定量证据来测试声音变化的社会动机的理论的总体目标。EAPSI奖学金的更广泛的影响包括为研究员提供美国以外的第一手研究经验;介绍各自所在地的科学，科学政策和科学基础设施;以及社会，文化和语言的方向。 这些活动符合NSF的目标，即在科学家，工程师和教育工作者的职业生涯早期进行国际合作教育，从而确保具有全球意识的美国科学工作者。 此外，该项目的目标还包括通过一个互动网站向公众介绍语音变化的机制以及语言学领域，该网站将使访问者能够实际看到和听到元音在整个新西兰英语课程中的变化。

This action funds Elizabeth Sneller of The University of Pennsylvania to conduct a research project in the Social, Behavioral and Economics sciences area during the summer of 2013 at The University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. The project title is "The PROICE is ROIGHT: A Longitudinal Acoustic Analysis of New Zealand English Vowel Shift." The host scientist is Dr. Beth Hume. This project uses automatic vowel extraction to analyze the trajectory of vowels in New Zealand English throughout the time spanned by the Origins of New Zealand English (ONZE) corpus held at the University of Canterbury. According to Labov's (1961) Apparent Time theory, this corpus provides the opportunity to study over a century of sound change in New Zealand. This project provides a timeline and visual representation of the acoustic changes in vowel subsystems over time. It also provides an analysis of vowel shift as affected by social factors such as race, gender, and socio-economic status, with the overarching goal of providing quantitative evidence to test theories of the social motivation of sound change. Broader impacts of an EAPSI fellowship include providing the Fellow a first-hand research experience outside the U.S.; an introduction to the science, science policy, and scientific infrastructure of the respective location; and an orientation to the society, culture and language. These activities meet the NSF goal to educate for international collaborations early in the career of its scientists, engineers, and educators, thus ensuring a globally aware U.S. scientific workforce. Furthermore, the goals of this project include educating the public about the mechanism of sound change as well as the field of Linguistics through the medium of an interactive website which will allow visitors to actually see and hear how vowels have changed throughout the course of New Zealand English.