| Project/Area Number |
07610514
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
言語学・音声学
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| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
MISONO Yasuko TUAT,Int.Student C.Assoc.Prof., 留学生センター, 助教授 (00209777)
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| 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)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1995 – 1996
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1996)
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| 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)
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| Keywords | sentence final morphology / pitch pattern / sentence final intonation / speakers' intention |
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| 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.
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