The effects of implicit awareness on perception and production in southern regional French.

这个项目将考察说话者在多大程度上隐性和显性地意识到地区口音及其社会价值。我将结合社会语言学和社会认知方法来研究变异意识如何影响说话者感知和产生地域标记语言以及构建地域身份的能力。这项研究将在法国南部进行，那里有证据表明，尽管有强烈的地区认同感，说话者似乎在很大程度上没有意识到当地口音的特征，而这些特征正在迅速消失，取而代之的是北部标准。虽然社会语言学已经表明，说话者使用不同的地区口音取决于他们是否有意识地意识到自己的社会价值，确定说话者意识是具有挑战性的（Kerswill & Williams, 2002）。最近的研究表明，许多社会信息是无意识地被理解的（例如Babel， 2010），尽管尚不清楚说话者在自己的讲话中对这些信息有多大的控制。考虑到地区差异在构建个人身份中所起的作用，这一点很重要。这个项目将使用社会语言学和认知科学的原始方法组合来区分这种自动的、隐性的意识和更明确的意识（有待评论）。这种区别是新的、未被充分探索的，但对于推进我们的意识如何影响语言使用的模型是必要的。

This project will examine the extent to which speakers are implicitly, and explicitly, aware of regional accents and their social value. I will use a combination of ociolinguistic and social cognitive methods to investigate how awareness of variation affects speakers' ability to perceive and produce regionally marked language and construct regional identities. This research will be conducted in the South of France, where there is evidence that despite a strong sense of regional identity, speakers appear largely unaware of localised accent features, and these are quickly receding in favour of a northern standard. While sociolinguistics has shown that speakers use regional accents differently depending on whether they are consciously aware of their social value, determining speaker awareness is challenging (Kerswill & Williams, 2002). Recent work shows that much social information is unconsciously understood (e.g. Babel, 2010), though it is unclear how much control speakers have over this information in their own speech. This is significant given the role that regional variation plays in constructing personal identities. This project will use an original combination of methods taken from sociolinguistics and cognitive science to distinguish between this automatic, implicit awareness, and more explicit awareness that is subject to commentary. This distinction is new and underexplored, but necessary to advance our models of how awareness influences language use.