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Human interaction and the evolution of spoken accent

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Project "InterAccent" data sheet

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Coordinator
LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN 

Organization address
address: GESCHWISTER SCHOLL PLATZ 1
city: MUENCHEN
postcode: 80539
website: www.uni-muenchen.de

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 Coordinator Country Germany [DE]
 Total cost 2˙499˙333 €
 EC max contribution 2˙499˙333 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
 Code Call ERC-2016-ADG
 Funding Scheme ERC-ADG
 Starting year 2017
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2017-10-01   to  2022-09-30

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1    LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN DE (MUENCHEN) coordinator 2˙499˙333.00

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 Project objective

If a group of people were stranded on a desert island with limited contact to outside communities for a period of time, then the group would develop its own characteristic way of speaking or spoken accent. A lack of suitable data as input to an evolutionary computational model has meant that we have but a poor understanding of how spoken accent emerges out of human interaction. Yet a breakthrough in this area is critical for explaining the various forces - including contact between individuals through increased migration - that shape spoken accent development ultimately leading to language diversification and change. The project remedies this deficiency by developing a model of how random, local interactions between individuals leading to group-specific spoken accents can push the sound patterns of languages between stable and changing states. The methodological innovation is that the model's predictions of how spoken accent evolves will be constrained by longitudinal observations about how it actually develops within a group of speakers over time. We seek to generalise from diverse types of data: from children growing up in remote rural communities as opposed to high-contact urban settings; from languages that differ markedly in their sound structure; and from groups of adults isolated together for several months during an Antarctic winter. The project's scientific impact is on developing a computational framework for unifying historical sound change with the cognitive mechanisms by which speech is communicated and adapted to different social settings. The further impact is on understanding how migration and exposure to other accents change the sounds of language. The long-term significance of the project is to build a computationally predictive model of the way that microscopic idiosyncrasies in how humans process speech in everyday conversations accumulate into group-level macroscopic spoken accent change leading to language diversification.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
List of publications.
2018 Jonathan Harrington, Felicitas Kleber, Ulrich Reubold, Florian Schiel, Mary Stevens
Linking Cognitive and Social Aspects of Sound Change Using Agent-Based Modeling
published pages: 707-728, ISSN: 1756-8757, DOI: 10.1111/tops.12329
Topics in Cognitive Science 10/4 2019-08-05
2018 Christopher Carignan
Using naïve listener imitations of native speaker productions to investigate mechanisms of listener-based sound change
published pages: 18, ISSN: 1868-6354, DOI: 10.5334/labphon.136
Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 9/1 2019-08-05
2019 Mary Stevens, Jonathan Harrington, Florian Schiel
Associating the origin and spread of sound change using agent-based modelling applied to /s/-retraction in English
published pages: 8, ISSN: 2397-1835, DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.620
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 4/1 2019-08-05
2018 Christopher Carignan
Using ultrasound and nasalance to separate oral and nasal contributions to formant frequencies of nasalized vowels
published pages: 2588-2601, ISSN: 0001-4966, DOI: 10.1121/1.5034760
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143/5 2019-08-05

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