Collaborative Research: The Chicagoland Language Project

合作研究：芝加哥语言项目

• 批准号: 2017716
• 负责人: Annette D'Onofrio
• 金额: $ 23.15万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2017716&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Chicagoland; Language; Project

Regions of the United States have been shown to have their own distinct language dialects. However, recent research in the region around the Great Lakes has shown movement away from a regionally specific accent, with new linguistic norms emerging. In linguistics, the processes through which regionalized sound changes alter course requires an understanding of historical changes in places where such changes occur, as well as an examination of individual speakers’ awareness, evaluations, and ideologies about the features undergoing change. This study engages in a detailed analysis of how sociohistorical processes, relating to migration histories and current and past racial dynamics, affect the spread of language change in Chicago, a major urban center in this region. In addition to advancing the understanding of language, culture, and history in this important region of the U.S. and advancing theories regarding language change, this project provides opportunities to train underrepresented students in conducting scientific research and produces a publicly-available database of oral histories highlighting important community issues.The investigators will collect ethnographic interviews from lifelong community members in three neighborhoods of Chicago, perform acoustic analyses of the data, and experimentally assess social evaluations of specific place-linked linguistic features through a series of perception experiments. These data and analyses will provide insight into the current status of sound change reversals in Chicago and, more generally, how and why sound changes propagate across and within communities. The outcomes of this work speak directly to current debates about the nature of sound change and the current and future trajectory of American English. The project’s creation of a Chicago speech corpus, accessible to other scholars for broader analyses, will also lead to long term advances in sociolinguistic research in the U.S.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.

美国的各个地区都有自己独特的方言语言，然而，最近对五大湖地区的研究表明，随着语言学中新语言规范的出现，地区特定口音正在逐渐消失。区域化的声音变化需要了解发生这种变化的地方的历史变化，以及检查个体说话者对正在发生变化的特征的意识、评价和意识形态。本研究详细分析了社会历史过程是如何发生的。 ，与移民历史有关以及当前和过去的种族动态，除了促进对美国这一重要地区的语言、文化和历史的理解并推进有关语言变化的理论之外，还影响该地区主要城市中心芝加哥的语言变化的传播。 ，该项目提供了培训代表性不足的学生进行科学研究的机会，并制作了一个公开的口述历史数据库，突出了重要的社区问题。调查人员将收集芝加哥三个社区的终身社区成员的民族志访谈，并对数据进行声学分析，并通过实验评估社会评价通过一系列感知实验，我们可以了解与特定地点相关的语言特征。这些数据将提供对芝加哥声音变化逆转现状的深入了解，以及更一般地说，声音变化如何以及为何在社区内和社区内传播。直接讨论当前关于声音变化的本质以及美式英语当前和未来发展轨迹的争论。该项目创建了芝加哥语音语料库，可供其他学者进行更广泛的分析，也将导致社会语言学研究的长期进步。美国这授予 NSF 的法定使命，并通过评估反映使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得支持。