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.

美国地区已被证明具有自己独特的语言方言。但是，在大湖区周围地区的最新研究表明，随着新的语言规范的出现，移动远离了特定于区域的口音。在语言学中，区域化声音变化改变过程的过程需要了解发生这种变化的地方的历史变化，以及对个人说话者的意识，评估和意识形态的检查。这项研究详细分析了社会历史过程与移民历史以及当前和过去的种族动态有关的如何影响该地区主要城市中心芝加哥语言变化的传播。除了促进美国这个重要地区的语言，文化和历史的理解并推进有关语言变化的理论外，该项目还提供了培训代表性不足的学生进行科学研究的机会，并产生可公开的口腔历史数据库，以突出重要的社区问题。通过一系列感知实验的特定位置连锁语言特征。这些数据和分析将为芝加哥的声音变化逆转的当前状态提供洞察力，更广泛地说，声音如何以及为什么声音变化在社区内和内部传播。这项工作的结果直接表达了有关声音变化的性质以及当前和未来的美国英语轨迹的当前辩论。该项目创建的芝加哥演讲语料库（其他学者都可以进行更广泛的分析，还将导致美国社会语言研究的长期进步，该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，通过评估诚实地认为通过评估。