Doctoral Dissertation Research: High school choice and the social meanings of a sound change in language

博士论文研究：高中选择与语言健全变化的社会意义

• 批准号: 2116957
• 负责人: Annette D'Onofrio
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2116957&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; choice; social

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Understanding how and why language change occurs is central to understanding the nature of human language. Recent work among adults has found that the type of high school an individual attends can influence how that person engages with place-linked linguistic features (such as regional accents). However, although adolescents often lead linguistic change, the impacts of high school choice remain under-examined among high school students themselves. This doctoral dissertation project builds upon previous work on an important regional sound change currently occurring in American English by examining how the social associations adolescents attribute to the features undergoing change relate to their own use of these features and how the social environments within different types of schools might influence the social meanings that are associated with these and other regional linguistic features. In addition to the training of a doctoral student, results will be shared publicly with participants and community members. Through sociolinguistic interviews, social evaluation tasks, and perceptual dialectology tasks with adolescents in different types of high schools, this project provides new and deeper insights into the social meanings that high school students attribute to a specific set of regional accent features. The exploration of how adolescents' own understandings of the social meanings of linguistic features relate to their social environments in school and their placed, racialized, and classed identities will in turn enhance our understanding of the mechanisms – both social and linguistic – at work during the course of language changes.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.

该病房是根据《美国救援计划法》的全部或部分资金（公共法律117-2）。影响着这种情况如何，具有语言特征，Allyooth青少年经常领导语言变化，高中选择的影响仍然不足以在高中座谈会本身中彼此之间的研究不足。这些特征与这些类型的学校中这些ofESER的用途可能会影响与TOER Megral语言特征相关的。高中的不同类型。在语言变化过程中，在工作中的机制（社会和语言）的Justanding反映了NSF'Sf'Stututory的使命，并以该基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准值得评估，值得一提的是值得一提的值得的支持。