| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
FUKAO Yuriko TUAT, International Student Center, Professor, 留学生センター, 教授 (90272640)
ECHIZENYA Akiko TUAT, International Student Center, Professor, 留学生センター, 教授 (30213549)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The relation between the intonational characteristics of the utterances ended with janai (negative/sentence final) and the listeners' interpretations of them were examined.
A professional speaker and four native speakers of Tokyo dialect recorded sentences ended with either negative or sentence final janai with falling/rising sentence final intonation. We had four groups of stimuli "sukijanai": (a) negative janai with falling intonation (b) negative janai with rising intonation (c) sentence-final janai with falling intonation (d) sentence-final janai, with rising intonation. We classified the usage of janai into four groups : (1) <negative> (2) <positive> (3) <yes-no question> (4) <agreement asking>. In the experiment, a subject listened to 37 stimuli and selected a usage from the above (1)-(4) as his/her interpretation of the speakers' intention. We had totally ten subjects.
(1) There were characteristic differences in pitch contours between the stimuli of [negative, falling] and [sente
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nce-final, falling].
(2) Listeners' interpretations of the stimuli of [negative, falling] were exclusively <negative>.
(3) Listeners' interpretations of the stimuli of [sentence-final, falling] were <agreement asking> 74%, <positive> 24%.
(4) Four stimuli of [negative, rising] had characteristic sentence final intonation, of which 85% of the interpretations were <y-n question>. Except these, we found no characteristic differences in pitch contours between the stimuli of [negative, rising] and [sentence-final, rising].
(5) Listeners' interpretations for the stimuli of [rising]([negative, rising] and [sentence-final, rising]) were <y-n question> 50%, <agreement asking> 38% and <positive> 10%.
(6) There was considerable variability between listeners in the way they interpreted the stimuli of [sentence-final, falling] and [rising].
(7) The number of the varieties of the interpretations also differed according to listeners. Some listeners, who seemingly had simpler system of interpretation of the stimuli, had smaller number of the varieties of interpretations, whereas some listeners had greater number of the varieties. Less
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