Dialect-standard variability in early childhood: A longitudinal corpus study of phonological development (C10)

• Subject Area: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics
• Term: since 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 317633480

The planned project explores the limits of phonological dialect-standard variability in young children who acquire two varieties of German, a High Alemannic dialect and standard German. Drawing on a longitudinal audiovisual corpus of spontaneous family interaction involving three children regularly recorded within the age span of approx.1;6 to 4;0, we aim to uncover the language-internal and language-external factors that constrain this variability and the way it develops over time.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1287: Limits of Variability in Language: Cognitive, Grammatical, and Social Aspects
• Applicant Institution: Universität Potsdam
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Martin Pfeiffer