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State of the art: current methodological innovations in sociophonetics
Linguistics Vanguard ( IF 0.896 ) Pub Date : 2020-01-29 , DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2018-0067
Nicolai Pharao 1 , Anne Fabricius 2
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Innovation is a buzzword at many levels of society, business and science. We as researchers are constantly urged to focus on the new and the ground-breaking, and onmoving forward to new frontiers, enabling exploration of new knowledge in new combinations and from new perspectives. This as is true of sociophonetics, the study of socially grounded phonetic variation, as it is of any discipline. Technological breakthroughs and boundary-crossings happen every day at the cutting-edge of science, and themethodological and theoretical consequences of these movements are often rewarding to spend time on. This was our motivation in setting up a series of seminars in Groningen, Roskilde and Edinburgh that brought together a wide-ranging group of sociophoneticians and sociolinguists between 2014 and 2017. We called our seminar series IMPS/IMS: Innovative Methods in (Phonetics and) Sociophonetics, and the special issue of Linguistic Vanguard that you are presently reading is one result of those several years of collaborationwith a particular focus on innovative methods in our disciplines, and their consequences. Scientific methods are never ends in themselves, but our methodological choices necessarily reflect the theoretical premises and preconceptions we bring to our research. Use of either establishedmethods of analysis, or new and innovative ones – sometimes under interdisciplinary influences – often stems from a desire to have the data speakmore clearly to us, and as technology develops, so do themethodological possibilities. If methods andmethodological frameworks that are established among a group of scholars are confronted by new epistemologies, data, and insights, our analytical techniques have the opportunity to move and change accordingly. New sociolinguistic and sociophonetic questions often result in particular challenges to both data collection and analysis. In recent years, we have seen an increase in the public freeware availability of what were previously highly specialized laboratory-based techniques for acoustic phonetics. This has meant that the specific challenges that are posed by the kind of data obtained from sociolinguistic fieldwork are now open to many different sorts of treatmentwith a sophisticated array of tools alongside the spectrographic analysis packages that have long been indispensable for our work (for instance, ultrasound technology, electropalatography, and a variety of brain imaging techniques). Along with recent developments in theoretical sociophonetics and the spread of scientific statistical computing over the past decade, we have seen new methodological techniques emerge, built on new research questions, and new ways of thinking about our discipline and about language and language data itself. We began our reflections in 2014 with a conference workshop that foregrounded “vowels” and “systems of vowels”/”the vowel system” as theoretical concepts and the methodological implications that followed on from that. This arose as a focus because the study of variations in vowel production and within vocalic

中文翻译:

最新技术:社会语音学的最新方法创新

在社会,商业和科学的许多层面上,创新都是流行语。我们作为研究人员,一直被敦促专注于新的和突破性的领域,并继续前进到新的领域,以新的组合和新的视角探索新知识。正如社会语音学一样,这是任何学科的社会基础语音变异研究。技术的突破和跨越是每天在科学的前沿发生的,这些运动的方法论和理论后果常常是值得的。这是我们在格罗宁根,罗斯基勒和爱丁堡举办一系列研讨会的动机,该研讨会在2014年至2017年期间召集了广泛的社会语音学家和社会语言学家。我们将研讨会系列称为IMPS / IMS:(语音和(社会)语音学中的创新方法)以及您目前正在阅读的《语言先锋》(Languistic Vanguard)特刊是这几年合作的结果之一,尤其是我们学科中的创新方法及其后果。科学方法本身并不是永无止境的,但是我们的方法选择必然反映了我们带给我们研究的理论前提和偏见。使用既定的分析方法,或者有时在跨学科的影响下使用创新的方法,通常是由于希望使数据对我们更清晰地说话,并且随着技术的发展,方法学的可能性也在不断增长。如果在一组学者之间建立的方法和方法框架面临新的认识论,数据和见解,我们的分析技术有机会相应地移动和更改。新的社会语言学和社会语音问题通常会给数据收集和分析带来特殊挑战。近年来,我们已经看到公共免费软件的可用性在增加,这些软件以前是高度专业的基于实验室的声学语音技术。这意味着,从社会语言学实地考察中获得的数据种类所构成的特定挑战现在可以通过多种复杂的工具以及光谱分析软件包对许多不同类型的处理方法进行处理,而这些软件包对于我们的工作早已是必不可少的(例如,超声技术,电描记术和各种大脑成像技术)。在过去的十年中,随着理论社会语音学的最新发展以及科学统计计算的普及,我们看到了新的方法论技术的兴起,它们建立在新的研究问题上,并且以新的方式思考我们的学科以及语言和语言数据本身。2014年,我们在一个会议研讨会上开始了自己的思考,会议研讨会将“元音”和“元音系统” /“元音系统”作为理论概念和随后的方法论意义进行了介绍。之所以成为焦点,是因为研究元音产生和人声内部的变化 2014年,我们在一个会议研讨会上开始了自己的思考,会议研讨会将“元音”和“元音系统” /“元音系统”作为理论概念和随后的方法论意义进行了介绍。之所以成为焦点,是因为研究元音产生和人声内部的变化 2014年,我们在一个会议研讨会上开始了自己的思考,会议研讨会将“元音”和“元音系统” /“元音系统”作为理论概念和随后的方法论意义进行了介绍。之所以成为焦点,是因为研究元音产生和人声内部的变化
更新日期:2020-01-29
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