Investigating regional variation in British English using Big Data: new applications for forensics and criminal justice

使用大数据调查英式英语的区域差异：法医学和刑事司法的新应用

• 批准号: 2035766
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2035766
• 关键词: Investigating; regional; variation; British; English

There has been much research dedicated to regional variation of British English with regards to both accent and dialect. Such research is primarily concerned with speakers' vowels and consonants and the use of lexical items and grammatical features. Similarly, we are beginning to see research into the variation of 'features above the segments', i.e. prosody (e.g. intonation or 'speech melody') (Nance et al. 2015), rhythm (Fuchs 2016), and voice quality (Szakay & Torgersen 2015)). The major weakness of these studies is that they are localised to one or very few places. We still know very little about contemporary large-scale variation at national level, and about how these individual studies mesh together into a nationwide picture of the dialect landscape of the country.

人们对英式英语在口音和方言方面的地区差异进行了大量研究。此类研究主要关注说话者的元音和辅音以及词汇项目和语法特征的使用。同样，我们开始看到对“片段之上的特征”变化的研究，即韵律（例如语调或“语音旋律”）（Nance 等人，2015 年）、节奏（Fuchs 2016 年）和语音质量（Szakay 和托格森 2015））。这些研究的主要弱点是它们仅限于一个或很少的地方。我们对当代国家层面的大规模差异以及这些单独的研究如何融合成该国方言景观的全国性图景仍然知之甚少。