拉波夫早期实验中的语言学变异分析方法——关于马撒葡萄园岛实验

1961年,美国语言学家威廉·拉波夫在马撒葡萄园岛进行了语言变异实验并指出了语言的一个重要特征:语言变化是进行中的变化,进行中的变化可以被观察并被研究,进而推翻了传统语言学的理论基础并改变了语言学的研究对象。在实验中,拉波夫创造性地采用了量化研究的模式来研究社会范畴与双元音央化现象的关系,从而使语言学研究方法有了本质上的改变。量化研究方法现在已经成为语言变异研究中最基本的模式。

The Analytic Methods Adopted by Labov in His Early Studies on Linguistic Variation——Based on Martha's Vineyard Island Research

In 1961,William Labov,an American Linguist,conducted a linguistic variation research in Martha’s Vineyard Island and pointed out an important character of language: linguistic variation changes in progress,and such progressive change can be observed and studied.Thus,Labov overthrew the theoretical basis of traditional linguistics and changed the objects of linguistics.Labov,in this research,creatively applied quantitative study to analyze the relationship between social factors and diphthong centralization,which has fundamentally changed the research methods of linguistic variation.So far,quantitative study has become a basic model of linguistic variation analysis.