| Project/Area Number |
12610559
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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 | Kyuahu University |
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Principal Investigator |
ITABASHI Yoshizo Kyushu University, International Student Center, Associate Professor, 留学生センター, 助教授 (50212981)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2003
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2003)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
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| Keywords | Sakhalin Ainu / Hokkaido Ainu / vowel length / pitch accent / Proto-Ainu / 母音の高低 / 音節 / 拍 / 音韻レベル / 高さアクセント / 母音の長短と高さアクセントの対応 |
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| Research Abstract |
Having utilized all the materials, both speech and written, on Sakhalin Ainu, the pitch accent of a part of the speech material 'Karafuto Ainugo' was analyzed with the speech-analyzer software on the computer to see if there was any correlation between the pitch accent of a word and the vowel length of that word and it is found that there was no clear correlation between the two.
The long vowel of a word in Sakhalin Ainu is correlated with the high pitch of that equivalent word in Hokkaido Ainu in the following specific phonetic environment& (1)the first mora of CVCV in Hokkaido Ainu has low pitch and the second mora has high pitch, and (2) the the first closed syllable like CVCCV(C) in Hokkaido Ainu has always high pitch. The other syllables do not normally have any correlations between the two. The only phonological feature in Proto-Ainu is vowel length but not pitch accent because we are systematically able to reconstruct Proto-forms only on the basis of vowel length, and logically explicate the phonological changes of the later forms in Sakhalin and Hokkaido Ainu, which supports Hattori's theory.
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