33.3105, Diss: Sociolinguistics: Yoojin Kang: ''Diss Title: Acquisition of New Dialect Features by Seoul and Kyungsang Korean Speakers: Social and Attitudinal Factors Influencing Production''

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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:47:33
From: Yoojin Kang [yoojinkang22 at gmail.com]
Subject: Diss Title: Acquisition of New Dialect Features by Seoul and Kyungsang Korean Speakers: Social and Attitudinal Factors Influencing Production

 
Institution: Georgetown University 
Program: Department of linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2022 

Author: Yoojin Kang

Dissertation Title: Acquisition of New Dialect Features by Seoul and Kyungsang
Korean Speakers: Social and Attitudinal Factors Influencing 
Production 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Dissertation Director(s):
Jennifer Nycz
Natalie Schilling
Seung-Eun Chang

Dissertation Abstract:

When speakers of different dialects interact, their specific dialect features
may change over time. Recent work shows that the motivation for such changes
can be due to many interrelated factors such as developmental, linguistic, and
social effects. This dissertation expands this inquiry by examining second
dialect acquisition by mobile speakers relocating between two regions, one
urban and characterized by a prestigious dialect, and one rural, whose dialect
is stigmatized. The participants in this study are 62 Korean speakers in two
field sites: Seoul city and North Kyungsang province in South Korea. This
dissertation explores how mobile adult speakers (i.e., speakers of North
Kyungsang Korean who have moved to the Seoul region and speakers of Seoul
Korean who have moved to the North Kyungsang region) acquire new dialect
features. The study is one of the largest second dialect acquisition studies
with 62 mobile adult speakers stratified according to birth region, gender,
and length of residence in a new area to investigate how these social factors
affect the acquisition of new dialect features.

Four linguistic variables were analyzed in the speech of each speaker: /ɯ/ and
/ʌ/ variation, /wɑ/ variation, word-initial stop variation, and use of tones.
The study draws its data from four different tasks to elicit different styles
of speech: Conversational interview, reading passage, wordlist, and minimal
pairs. After completing these four tasks, I explained the four features of
dialect which differ between Seoul Korean and North Kyungsang Korean, which
were examined in this study. The participants were asked to identify any
features that they had already known as the features of dialect which differ
between Seoul Korean and North Kyungsang Korean and rank those features in
order of the typical features of the D2. Finally, each speaker was asked to
complete a questionnaire to examine the effect of attitudes towards the first
dialect and second dialect and toward the first dialect and second dialect
regions on dialect acquisition.

Several findings emerge from this dissertation. Most of the speakers in both
mobile groups produce the Seoul Korean-like distinction between /ɯ/ and /ʌ/,
Seoul-like /wɑ/ diphthongization and do not show the North Kyungsang
Korean-like word-initial tensification and North Kyungsang Korean tones. I
argue that this overall result that the vast majority of mobile speakers
produce the Seoul Korean features is related to both linguistic and
extralinguistic factors: Complexity of linguistic features, salience of
features, speakers’ pre-existing phonetic repertoire, perception of tone
contrasts, high instrumental motivation and linguistic insecurity, and speaker
identity.




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