Preservation and Adaptation in Turkish as a Heritage Language (PATH) - A Natural Language Laboratory in a Small Dutch Town

Información del proyecto

PATH

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 843131

DOI

10.3030/843131

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 12 Abril 2019

Fecha de inicio 1 Septiembre 2019

Fecha de finalización 28 Julio 2022

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coste total

€ 214 158,72

Aportación de la UE

€ 214 158,72

Coordinado por

UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET
Norway

Descripción del proyecto

La adaptación lingüística en una comunidad bilingüe

Hay teorías nuevas que explican la influencia de los idiomas en los bilingües. No obstante, las variabilidades de la experiencia humana, los aspectos concretos de cada lengua y otros factores externos deberían evitarse para extraer un conocimiento más detallado de los mecanismos cognitivos. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos PATH ejecutó su investigación en una comunidad turca de una ciudad en Brabante Septentrional (los Países Bajos). La comunidad, compuesta principalmente por turcos de tercera generación, habla un dialecto del turco especial. El proyecto investigará la influencia recíproca de distintos componentes gramaticales en estos dos idiomas para generar políticas educativas basadas en datos científicos.

Objetivo

Understanding how languages leak into each other in the bilingual brain is a central testing ground for theories of language in the brain (which will inform all future educational policy), and also for theories of language change under contact. However, the crucial detailed information is strikingly difficult to obtain because of the massive variability in human experience. If one attempts to find generalizations in this area, one is faced with the uncertainty that the effects are not due to principled cognitive factors but to some combination of external factors of the environment and/or specific details of the particular language pairing involved, including the precise dialects in question. In addition, any changes in the development of a HL must be compared directly to the natural changes going on in that language in its native context, so that normal language change can be factored out. The exciting and unique feature of this project is that in this study we control for these factors by closely examining a particular community of residents with a Turkish background in Drunen, a small town in the North Brabant province of the Netherlands. The members of this community migrated from small towns in Rize, a province on the eastern Black Sea coast of Turkey, where a unique dialect of Turkish is spoken. Influenced from Greek and Armenian (Indo-European) as well as Laz (Kartvelian), this regional variety demonstrates substantial differences from other varieties of Turkish in Turkey and is classified a separate dialect group on its own. PATH will examine a sub-dialect of this unique variety as it has been spoken by three generations of ±350 residents in Drunen to investigate how different components of grammar (phonology, lexicon, syntax) show variation and change in a bilingual setting.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

• humanidades › lenguas y literatura › lingüística › fonología

Palabras clave

• bilingualism
• heritage languages
• language variation
• language change

Programa(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PROGRAMA PRINCIPAL
  
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
  

Tema(s)

• MSCA-IF-2018 - Individual Fellowships
  

Régimen de financiación

MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-MSCA-IF-2018

Coordinador

UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET

• Aportación neta de la UEn: € 214 158,72
• Dirección: HANSINE HANSENS VEG 14 ; 9019 Tromso ; Noruega
• Tipo de actividad: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coste total: € 214 158,72