Doctoral Dissertation Research: Linguistic transfer in a contact variety of Spanish: Gender agreement production and attitudes

这个项目分析了在持续的语言接触场景中出现的非标准形式的语言使用。通过诱发性和自发性语言产出，分析了内隐和外显语言态度的影响。持续接触的语言经常经历语言变化，这是一种语言对另一种语言的结果。这些迁移效应可能发生在一种语言中存在而在另一种语言中不存在的语法特征上。这种差异可能导致非标准形式的使用比同一语言的非接触形式的使用更多。这项研究有助于理解和描述非标准语言使用的大规模分析，系统地调查语言使用的教育水平，双语配置文件，代，和位置。通过研究这种不规范的语言使用，本研究提供了重要的经验数据，较小的少数民族语言是否可以对多数语言的迁移效果。以往对接触环境中使用非标准语言的观察传统上将非标准形式与较低的教育水平联系起来。该项目通过调查年龄、母语、学校语言、教育水平以及语言背景来验证这一说法。为了研究非标准形式，演讲者进行了45分钟的半结构化社会语言学访谈。在一个实验任务中，研究了被试对非标准协议的内隐态度。外显语言态度是通过被试回答两个关于他们对非标准语言使用态度的外显问题来衡量的。从这项研究中获得的数据提供了一个丰富的数据集，全面的信息，社会和语言因素，影响非标准的语言变体，以及语言态度对生产的影响。这项研究有助于更好地理解接触情景中语言变化的潜在机制。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

This project analyzes non-standard forms of language use that arise in sustained language contact scenarios. Using elicited and spontaneous language production, the effects of implicit and explicit langauge attitudes are also analyzed. Languages that are in sustained contact often experience language change that is the result of one language on the other. These transfer effects may occur for grammatical features that are present in one language but absent in the other. This difference may give rise to the increased use of non-standard forms as compared to non-contact varieties of the same langauge. This research contributes to the understanding and description of non-standard language use in a large scale analysis that systematically investigates language use across levels of education, bilingual profiles, generations, and location. By examining such non-standard language use, this research contributes important empirical data on whether smaller minority languages can have transfer effects on a majority language. Prior observations on non-standard language use in contact settings have traditionally related non-standard forms to lower levels of education. This project tests this claim by investigating age, native language, language of schooling, level of education, as well as linguistic contexts. To investigate non-standard forms, speakers engage in a 45-minute-long semi-structured sociolinguistic interview. Participants’ implicit attitudes towards non-standard agreement are examined in an experimental task where they hear standard and non-standard forms, while rating what they hear. Explicit language attitudes are measured by participants' response to two explicit questions on their attitudes towards non-standard language use. The data obtained from this research provides a rich data set with comprehensive information on the social and linguistic factors that influence non-standard language variants, as well as the influence of language attitudes on production. This research contributes to a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying language change in contact scenarios.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.