The Role of Processing in Language Variation and Change

处理在语言变异和变化中的作用

• 批准号: 1015941
• 负责人: Thomas Wasow
• 金额: $ 1.95万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1015941&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Role; Processing; Language; Variation; Change

Linguistic communication is fundamentally a social activity, involving at least two people. A comprehensive theory of language must explain both what goes on in the minds of individual speakers and how those individuals attend to and coordinate with their interlocutors. Psycholinguists study the unconscious mental processes involved in speaking and understanding language; sociolinguists study how social factors like age, gender, class, ethnicity, and regional differences influence language use. These two types of investigators often study the same linguistic phenomena from their own perspective, but there have been few attempts to combine the perspectives.A special session at the 2011 meeting of the annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing will focus on the role of processing in language variation and change. As part of the premier annual psycholinguistics conference in the United States, it will address the interaction of individual and social psychological factors in language use. Bringing together these two research communities will provide a foundation for richer and better grounded theories of language production and understanding. This will support applications to language technologies (such as machine translation and automatic summarization) and language pedagogy.

语言交流从根本上是一种社会活动，至少涉及两个人。 一种全面的语言理论必须解释单个演讲者的思想以及这些人如何与对话者进行协调的情况。 心理语言学家研究了语言和理解语言所涉及的无意识的心理过程；社会语言学家研究年龄，性别，阶级，种族和区域差异等社会因素如何影响语言使用。 这两种研究者通常从他们自己的角度研究相同的语言现象，但是很少有尝试结合观点的尝试。 作为美国主要年度心理语言学会议的一部分，它将解决语言使用中个人和社会心理因素的相互作用。 汇集这两个研究社区将为语言生产和理解的更丰富，更好的理论奠定基础。 这将支持对语言技术（例如机器翻译和自动摘要）和语言教学法的应用。