Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Acquisition of Verbal Morphology in a Polysynthetic Language

博士论文研究：多综合语言中言语形态的习得

• 批准号: 2116683
• 负责人: Anthony Woodbury
• 金额: $ 1.51万
• 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: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2116683&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Acquisition; Verbal

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).The first few years of a child's life are spent creating order out of the chaos of her native language, a highly complex signal comprised of a finite number of sounds arranged into an enormous number of words in an infinite number of configurations. This dissertation research seeks to determine how children tease apart the interactions among sound, grammar, and culture to master the intricacies of verbal morphology in a highly concatenative language with productive stem alternation and hierarchical alignment. It is the first holistic description of the acquisition of any language belonging to its family. This analysis will yield unique insight into how children internalize, shape, and reproduce linguistic knowledge, which has significant implications for the fields of linguistics, cognitive science, and developmental psychology, as well as for our broader understanding of the human language faculty.Using a combined longitudinal and cross-sectional approach, this study will investigate the naturalistic speech of three children between 2;0 and 4;0 over the course of 12 months to describe their morphological development. In close collaboration with a native speaker, the recordings made will be transcribed, translated, and coded for the structural characteristics of child and adult speech to facilitate the comparison of child productions, child-directed speech, and adult-adult discourse overheard by the child. Qualitative analyses will include which morphemes occur with which verb stems, as well as morpheme productivity. Quantitative analyses will include Mean Length of Utterance, total number of utterances per hour, and frequencies of each verb stem and affix.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.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》的全部或部分资助（公法117-2）。孩子的生命的头几年是用她的母语的混乱来制定订单，这是一个高度复杂的信号，该信号由有限数量的声音组成，这些声音由无限数量的配置数量组成。这项论文研究旨在确定儿童如何嘲笑声音，语法和文化之间的相互作用，以掌握高度串联语言的语言形态的复杂性，并具有富有成效的STEM替代和分层对齐。这是对属于其家庭的任何语言的收购的第一个整体描述。该分析将对儿童如何内在化，形态和再现语言知识产生独特的见解，这对语言学，认知科学和发展心理学领域具有重要意义，以及我们对人类语言教师的更广泛的理解。使用纵向和横断面方法，这项研究将研究三个儿童的自然主义演讲，以对2; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0和42; 0与42; 02; 0 and of 12个月; 012; 0。与以英语为母语的人密切合作，将录制，翻译和编码儿童和成人言语的结构性特征，以促进儿童作品的比较，以儿童为导向的演讲以及儿童的成人成人话语。定性分析将包括发生哪些词素的动词茎以及词素生产力。定量分析将包括平均发音长度，每小时的话语总数以及每个动词词干和词缀的频率。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的评估来审查标准的评估。