Workshop on Sound Change 5: Sound Changes in Endangered or Small Speech Communities; June 20-22, 2019; Davis, CA

声音变化研讨会 5：濒危或小型语言社区的声音变化；

• 批准号: 1822522
• 负责人: Alan Yu
• 金额: $ 3.06万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-15 至 2020-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1822522&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Sound; Change; Changes; Endangered

Language change is inevitable and constant: all spoken languages evolve over time in their fine-grained speech patterns and the sound-to-meaning mapping of words. The study of sound change is important for understanding the mental representations and cognitive mechanisms underlying speech communication. The Workshop on Sound Change will take place at the University of California at Davis, June 20-22, 2019. The meeting will bring together researchers working on sound change who come from a variety of different backgrounds and disciplines to have conversations, integrate their perspectives and insights, and make substantive progress on questions the remain in the field. Potential collaborations and research that emerge from the meeting may offer new insights into the social, cognitive, and linguistic factors at work when a language's sound patterns change over time. As not all speech communities are equal, and the consequences for differences in the make-up and size of a community could impact how sound change occurs in a language. To this end, the workshop will feature a special theme on sound change in endangered and small speech communities. Sound change research, as in most work in phonetics and phonology, has focused on languages that have historically been dominant or where speakers are easily accessible. The dynamics of language endangerment and interaction between small groups of speakers may provide unique opportunities for sound change to take place. Small speech communities have different social factors at work than large communities, leading to the phonetic and cognitive influences to interact and diffuse in different ways when there are fewer agents. How sound change might originate and diffuse in speech communities of different sizes is poorly understood. Furthermore, endangered and small languages are often heavily influenced by other languages and cultures, making sound change more likely. In order to make useful models and predictions about when and how sound change will occur, we need to explore these patterns in diverse speech communities.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.

语言的变化是不可避免的并且是持续的：所有口语的细粒度语音模式和单词的声音到含义的映射都会随着时间的推移而演变。声音变化的研究对于理解言语交流背后的心理表征和认知机制非常重要。声音变化研讨会将于 2019 年 6 月 20 日至 22 日在加州大学戴维斯分校举行。会议将汇集来自不同背景和学科的声音变化研究人员进行对话，整合他们的观点和见解，并在该领域仍然存在的问题上取得实质性进展。当语言的声音模式随着时间的推移而变化时，会议中出现的潜在合作和研究可能会为社会、认知和语言因素提供新的见解。 由于并非所有语音社区都是平等的，社区的构成和规模差异的后果可能会影响语言中声音变化的方式。为此，研讨会将以濒危和小型语言社区的声音变化为主题。与大多数语音学和音韵学研究一样，声音变化研究主要关注历史上占主导地位的语言或易于接触的语言。语言濒危的动态以及小群体之间的互动可能为声音变化的发生提供独特的机会。小型语音社区与大型社区相比具有不同的社会因素，导致语音和认知影响在代理较少时以不同的方式进行交互和扩散。人们对声音变化如何在不同规模的言语社区中产生和传播知之甚少。此外，濒临灭绝的小语言往往受到其他语言和文化的严重影响，使得声音变化的可能性更大。为了对何时以及如何发生声音变化做出有用的模型和预测，我们需要在不同的语音社区中探索这些模式。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的评估进行评估，被认为值得支持。影响审查标准。