有证据表明,在民族边界沿线进行更大的标记
Lisa Morgan Johnson1,2, Adrian V Bell3, Marianna Di Paolo3,4,5
1Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. lisamorganjohnson@byu.edu.
Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.)
|October 21, 2024
概括
种族标志物,如语音差异,语音差异,信号群体身份. 这项研究发现,不同学校的语音标记增加,支持现实世界的种族标记理论.
科学领域:
- 社会语言学 社会语言学
- 人类学是人类学.
- 文化进化 文化进化
背景情况:
- 群体形成依赖于协调信念,规范和行为.
- 可观察到的信号对于推断不可观察到的特征至关重要,比如群体归属.
- 民族标志物理论认为,标志物在群体边界加剧,特别是在多个文化群体.
研究的目的:
- 用声学差异作为信号来经验性地测试种族标记理论的预测.
- 调查是否种族标记在中学环境中的种族边界变得更为普遍.
主要方法:
- 在犹他州的两所中学进行了民族学和语言学研究 (一所中学为欧洲裔美国人占多数,一所中学为多元化学校).
- 收集了来自不同背景的青少年采访的词汇列表录音.
- 对欧洲裔美国人 (EAs) 和太平洋岛民 (PIs) 的元音发音 (例如",bit") 的声学数据进行分析.
主要成果:
- 与大多数欧洲裔美国人学校相比,在种族多样化的学校中发言中发现了更大的语音标记.
- 观察到在种族互动的更突出的边界上增加了语音标记.
- 结果与种族标记理论的理论预测一致.
结论:
- 语音差异可以作为有效的种族标记,支持种族标记理论.
- 这项研究在现实世界中为种族标记理论提供了初步的经验证据.
- 这些发现证明了将环境变量纳入种族标志物表达的模型的进一步开发是合理的.
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