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Clarification of the phonetic characteristics of filled pauses based upon the analysis of spontaneous speech corpus

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26284062
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypePartial Multi-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Linguistics
Research InstitutionNational Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

Principal Investigator

Maekawa Kikuo  大学共同利用機関法人人間文化研究機構国立国語研究所, 音声言語研究領域, 教授 (20173693)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 森 大毅  宇都宮大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (10302184)
Rose Ralph (ROSE Ralph)  早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 准教授 (30404916)
河原 英紀  和歌山大学, 学内共同利用施設等, 名誉教授 (40294300)
渡辺 美知子  大学共同利用機関法人人間文化研究機構国立国語研究所, コーパス開発センター, プロジェクト非常勤研究員 (60470027)
Research Collaborator Tseng Shu-Chuan  中央研究院, 語言学研究所, Research fellow
Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥13,650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,150,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Keywordsフィラー / 自発音声 / F0抽出 / 日本語 / 英語 / 中国語 / 声質 / 発声様式 / 日本語話し言葉コーパス / filled pause / コーパス / 母音の調音 / 国際情報交換
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The following research was conducted as planned in the research proposal. As for Japanese, 1) Systematic difference of voice quality was found between the vowels in filled pauses and ordinary lexical items. As for English, 2) factors affecting the probability of filled pauses in clause-initial position were extracted, and 3) differences of filled-pause usage between the English native speakers and Japanese learners of English were extracted, and analyzed with respect to proficiency levels of the learners. As for Chinese, 4) the same analysis as in 1) above revealed basically the same results as in Japanese, but language-dependent differences were also found with respect to the change in the vowel color, for example. Lastly, 5) a new computational algorithm that can enable reliable extraction of the speech fundamental frequency (F0) information from the vowels having strongly creaky and/or breathy voice qualities.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Annual Research Report
  • 2015 Annual Research Report
  • 2014 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (33 results)

All 2017 2016 2015 2014 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (2 results) Journal Article (8 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 8 results,  Open Access: 7 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (22 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 9 results,  Invited: 6 results) Funded Workshop (1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] Academia Sinica(Taiwan)

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] 台湾中央研究院語言学研究院(中華民国)

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Comparison of Voice Quality between the Vowels in Filled Pauses and Ordinary Lexical Items2017

    • Author(s)
      Kikuo Maekawa and Hiroki Mori
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan

      Volume: 21 Issue: 3 Pages: 53-62

    • DOI

      10.24467/onseikenkyu.21.3_53

    • NAID

      130006727843

    • ISSN
      1342-8675, 2189-5961
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Factors Affecting Clause-Initial Filler Probability in an English Monologue Corpus2017

    • Author(s)
      Michiko Watanabe, Yusaku Korematsu
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan

      Volume: 21 Issue: 3 Pages: 24-32

    • DOI

      10.24467/onseikenkyu.21.3_24

    • NAID

      130006727845

    • ISSN
      1342-8675, 2189-5961
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] A Comparison of Form and Temporal Characteristics of Filled Pauses in L1 Japanese and L2 English2017

    • Author(s)
      Ralph Rose
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan

      Volume: 21 Issue: 3 Pages: 33-40

    • DOI

      10.24467/onseikenkyu.21.3_33

    • NAID

      130006727846

    • ISSN
      1342-8675, 2189-5961
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Chinese Demonstratives and Their Spoken Forms in a Conversational Corpus2017

    • Author(s)
      Shu-Chuan Tseng
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan

      Volume: 21 Issue: 3 Pages: 41-52

    • DOI

      10.24467/onseikenkyu.21.3_41

    • NAID

      130006727842

    • ISSN
      1342-8675, 2189-5961
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Application of Time-frequency Representations of Aperiodicity and Instantaneous Frequency for Detailed Analysis of Filled Pauses2017

    • Author(s)
      Hideki Kawahara
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan

      Volume: 21 Issue: 3 Pages: 63-73

    • DOI

      10.24467/onseikenkyu.21.3_63

    • NAID

      130006727839

    • ISSN
      1342-8675, 2189-5961
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 『日本語話し言葉コーパス』と対照可能にデザインされた英語話し言葉コーパスにおけるフィラーの分布の特徴2017

    • Author(s)
      渡辺美知子・外山翔平
    • Journal Title

      国立国語研究所論集

      Volume: 12 Pages: 181-203

    • NAID

      120005950347

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Sensitivity of pausing strategies to utterance length: Evidence from a crosslinguistic speech corpus2016

    • Author(s)
      Ralph Rose
    • Journal Title

      Proc. 8th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC)

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Voice-quality difference between the vowels in filled pauses and ordinary lexical items2016

    • Author(s)
      Kikuo Maekawa and Hiroki Mori
    • Journal Title

      Proc. Interspeech 2016

      Volume: なし Pages: 3171-3175

    • DOI

      10.21437/interspeech.2016-1309

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] Phonetic characteristics of filled pauses: A preliminary comparison between Japanese and Chinese2017

    • Author(s)
      Kikuo Maekawa, Nishikawa Ken'ya & Shu-Chuan Tseng
    • Organizer
      Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech 2017
    • Place of Presentation
      KTH, Stockholm
    • Year and Date
      2017-08-18
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Phonetic characteristics of filled pauses: a preliminary comparison between Japanese and Chinese2017

    • Author(s)
      Kikuo Maekawa, Ken'ya Nishikawa, and Shu-Chuan Tseng
    • Organizer
      Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) 2017
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A cross-linguistic comparison of filled pause frequency at clause boundaries in English and Japanese2017

    • Author(s)
      Michiko Watanabe and Shohei Toyama
    • Organizer
      International Conference “Fluency & Disfluency Across Languages and Language Varieties”
    • Place of Presentation
      Louvain, Belgium
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 日本語フィラーの声質分析2016

    • Author(s)
      前川喜久雄・森大毅
    • Organizer
      日本音声学会第334回研究例会
    • Place of Presentation
      十文字学園女子大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-12-03
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 英語と日本語のインフォーマルなスピーチにおけるフィラーの頻度の比較2016

    • Author(s)
      渡辺美知子
    • Organizer
      日本音声学会第334回研究例会
    • Place of Presentation
      十文字学園女子大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-12-03
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 基本周波数および非周期性の詳細な解析手法によるCSJコーパスの分析について2016

    • Author(s)
      河原英紀
    • Organizer
      日本音声学会第334回研究例会
    • Place of Presentation
      十文字学園女子大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-12-03
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Realtime detection of filled pauses and temporal variables for fluency development.2016

    • Author(s)
      Ralph Rose
    • Organizer
      日本音声学会第334回研究例会
    • Place of Presentation
      十文字学園女子大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-12-03
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Filling pauses in Chinese conversation2016

    • Author(s)
      Shu-Chuan Tseng
    • Organizer
      日本音声学会第334回研究例会
    • Place of Presentation
      十文字学園女子大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-12-03
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Aperiodicity analysis of filled pause in the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese database2016

    • Author(s)
      Hideki Kawahara
    • Organizer
      ASA/ASJ joint meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      Hawaii, USA
    • Year and Date
      2016-11-28
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] How can we determine, detect, and develop fluency in second language speech?2016

    • Author(s)
      Ralph Rose
    • Organizer
      Talk at Spoken Language Systems Lab (L²F) at Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores (INESC-ID)
    • Place of Presentation
      Lisbon, Portugal
    • Year and Date
      2016-03-11
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Sensitivity of pausing strategies to utterance length: Evidence from a crosslinguistic speech corpus2016

    • Author(s)
      Ralph Rose
    • Organizer
      8th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC)
    • Place of Presentation
      Malaga, Spain
    • Year and Date
      2016-03-02
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Comparison of filled pause durations and frequencies in parallel corpus of English and Japanese2016

    • Author(s)
      Michiko Watanabe and Shohei Toyama
    • Organizer
      The 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2016)
    • Place of Presentation
      Parramatta, Australia
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Variation in Chinese Filled Pauses: Reduction in segment and tone2015

    • Author(s)
      Shu-Chuan Tseng
    • Organizer
      Talk at the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
    • Place of Presentation
      Taipei, Taiwan
    • Year and Date
      2015-12-22
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Classification of vowels in filled pauses and lexical items on the basis of voice quality2015

    • Author(s)
      Kikuo Maekawa and Takuya Asai
    • Organizer
      Talk at the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
    • Place of Presentation
      Taipei, Taiwan
    • Year and Date
      2015-12-22
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Voice-quality analysis of Japanese filled pauses: A preliminary report2015

    • Author(s)
      Kikuo Maekawa and Hiroki Mori
    • Organizer
      DiSS 2015 (Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech)
    • Place of Presentation
      Edinburgh, Scotland
    • Year and Date
      2015-08-08
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The relationship between preceding clause type, subsequent clause length and the duration of silent and filled pauses at clause boundaries in Japanese monologues2015

    • Author(s)
      Michiko Watanabe, Yosuke Kashiwagi, and Kikuo Maekawa
    • Organizer
      DiSS 2015 (Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech)
    • Place of Presentation
      Edinburgh, Scotland
    • Year and Date
      2015-08-08
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Um and uh as differential delay maekers: The role of contexutual factors2015

    • Author(s)
      Ralph Rose
    • Organizer
      DiSS 2015 (Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech)
    • Place of Presentation
      Edinburgh, Scotland
    • Year and Date
      2015-08-08
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] フィラーの声質上の特徴に関する予備的分析2015

    • Author(s)
      前川喜久雄・森大毅
    • Organizer
      日本音響学会
    • Place of Presentation
      中央大学工学部
    • Year and Date
      2015-03-16 – 2015-03-18
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Some observations about filled pause in English: A multi-faceted appraoach2014

    • Author(s)
      Ralph Rose
    • Organizer
      Talk at the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
    • Place of Presentation
      Academia Sinica, Taiwan
    • Year and Date
      2014-12-12
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Phonetic characteristics of filled pauses in spontaneous Japanese: F0, formant frequency, and phonation2014

    • Author(s)
      Kikuo Maekawa
    • Organizer
      Talk at the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
    • Place of Presentation
      Academia Sinica, Taiwan
    • Year and Date
      2014-12-12
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The relationship between boundary strength, subsequent clause length and the duration of silent and filled pauses at clause boundaries in Japanese2014

    • Author(s)
      Michiko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      Talk at the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
    • Place of Presentation
      Academia Sinica, Taiwan
    • Year and Date
      2014-12-12
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Filled pauses in Chinese conversation2014

    • Author(s)
      Shu-Chuan Tseng
    • Organizer
      Talk at the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
    • Place of Presentation
      Academia Sinica, Taiwan
    • Year and Date
      2014-12-12
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Funded Workshop] Phonetics and Linguistics of Filled Pauses: Filled pauses in Japanese, English, and Chinese2016

    • Place of Presentation
      十文字学園大学
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report

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