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.

在口音和方言方面，有很多研究专门针对英国英语的区域差异。这样的研究主要与说话者的元音和辅音有关，以及使用词汇和语法特征。同样，我们开始看到对“段上方特征”的变化的研究，即韵律（例如语调或“语音旋律”）（Nance等人，2015年），节奏（Fuchs 2016）和语音质量（Szakay＆Torgersen 2015））。这些研究的主要弱点是它们位于一个或几个地方。我们仍然对国家一级的当代大规模差异以及这些个人研究如何共同融合到全国范围内的方言格局的情况下，对此一无所知。