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Analyzes and pedagogy for the usage of sentence final morphology and pitch pattem of Japanese expressing speakers' intention of an utterance

Research Project

Project/Area Number 07610514
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 言語学・音声学
Research InstitutionTokyo University of Agriculture & Technology

Principal Investigator

MISONO Yasuko  TUAT,Int.Student C.Assoc.Prof., 留学生センター, 助教授 (00209777)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) MASUKO Yukie  Tokyo Univ.of Foreign Studies, Foreign studies Assoc.prof, 外国語学部, 講師 (00212209)
KIRITANI Shigeru  University of Tokyo, Med.Prof., 医学部, 教授 (90010032)
Project Period (FY) 1995 – 1996
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1996)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Keywordssentence final morphology / pitch pattern / sentence final intonation / speakers' intention
Research Abstract

The intonational characteristics of the utterances ended with either daroo/deshoo or janai/janaidesukas were examined. These forms are conjugational forms of the auxiliary verb da, daroo putative and janai (<dewa nai) negative, deshoo a polite form of daroo, janaidesuka a polite question form of janai. These forms are also used to express the speakers' request for the hearers' agreement, in ways similar to some sentence-final particles. Our purpose is to examine whether there are some intonational characteristics correlating to the differences of usage.
Material was taken from video-taped TV programs. The utterances were classified into several sub-categories according to usage (auxiliary/agreement-asking) and sentence types.
Sentence final rising/falling intonation was judged. Falling intonation appeared in all the sentence types. All the daroos/deshoos for putative usage and wh-questions had falling intonation, whereas no sentence type was associated only with rising intonation. This suggests that the default intonation for ending an utterance is falling.
These forms in agreement-asking usage had comparatively high frequency of rising intonation, deshoos 65%, other forms around 24-28%. But it is too strong a claim to say that rising intonation is the essential characteristic feature of agreement-asking usage.
FO analysis of janais showed that janais in negative usage had characteristic pitch contours which the pitch contours of janais in agreement-asking lacked.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1996 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1995 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1995-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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