MRPG: Syntactic and Semantic Patterns in Child African American English

MRPG：非洲裔美国儿童英语的句法和语义模式

• 批准号: 0003158
• 负责人: Lisa Green
• 金额: $ 1.8万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-07-01 至 2002-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0003158&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRPG; Syntactic; Semantic; Patterns; Child

Adolescent and adult African American English (AAE) is characterized by well-defined syntactic and semantic forms. However, the stages of development in which child AAE speakers acquire these patterns have not been identified. As a result, thorough descriptions of the speech of normally developing AAE speakers are not available, though some researchers have considered the use of a particular feature in the language of five and six year old AAE speakers (Stockman and Vaughn-Cook 1981; Wyatt 1991, 1995; Jackson 1995). The planning activities are designed to lead to the development of a protocol, including elicitation tasks, that will be used in gathering information to write a descriptive analysis of the syntactic and semantic patterns in the grammars of three, four and five year old AAE speakers in Lake Arthur, Louisiana; Austin, Texas; and Dallas, Texas. The research to be conducted following the planning activities will provide data about the overall system of AAE, with a focus on areas such as tense and aspect marking, the system of existential marking, patterns in negation constructions and strategies of question formation. By analyzing AAE within a theoretical framework, it becomes possible to move beyond discussions in which the variety is compared to mainstream English, thus showing how AAE patterns with respect to other languages.

青少年和非裔美国人英语（AAE）的特征是定义明确的句法和语义形式。但是，尚未确定儿童AAE演讲者获得这些模式的发展阶段。结果，尽管一些研究人员考虑使用五岁和六岁的AAE扬声器的语言使用特定功能，但对通常开发AAE的演讲者的讲话的彻底描述（Stockman and Vaughn-Cook 1981; Wyatt 1991，1995; Jackson 1995）。计划活动旨在导致一项协议的制定，包括启发任务，这些任务将用于收集信息，以对路易斯安那州亚瑟湖的三岁，四岁和五岁AAE扬声器的语法中的语法和语义模式进行描述性分析；德克萨斯州奥斯汀；和德克萨斯州达拉斯。在计划活动之后进行的研究将提供有关AAE整体系统的数据，重点是诸如时态和方面标记，存在标记的系统，否定结构中的模式以及问题形成的策略。通过在理论框架内分析AAE，可以超越将品种与主流英语进行比较的讨论，从而显示AAE与其他语言相对于其他语言的模式。