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Experimental Studies on the Word Tone in the Chinese Dialects

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13610540
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 中国語・中国文学
Research InstitutionKANAZAWA UNIVERSITY (2003)
Aichi Prefectural University (2001-2002)

Principal Investigator

IWATA Ray  Kanazawa University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (10142358)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) ERICKSON Donna  Women's College, Department of International Culture Studies, Professor, 国際文化学科, 教授 (80331586)
吉池 孝一  愛知県立大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (30220586)
樋口 勇夫  名古屋学院大学, 外国語学部, 助教授 (70267912)
Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2003
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2003)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
KeywordsWord Tone / Light Tone / FO / Coarticulation / EMA / EMG / ピッチ / 顎位 / 舌位
Research Abstract

It is well known that Chinese is a monosyllable based tone language, but in Guanhua and Wu dialects the interaction of stress accent and tone has given birth to the word tone, which is synchronically predictable either by the tone of the first syllable or that of the last syllable within a polysyllabic phonological word.
In the present research, phonetic characteristics of the word tone are investigated mainly by experimental techniques. Acoustic measurements were made on tens of Guanhua and Wu dialects ; articulatory EMA experiments were conducted on the Standard Bejing Mandarin. These data were analyzed and examined with reference to the data obtained by the physiological EMG experiment.
It is argued that the "word tone" theory proposed by T.Hayata is effective in analyzing the tonal and accentual phenomena observable in Chinese dialects. Some theoretical issues were discussed in historical perspectives ; development of stress accent, emergence of the accentual phenomena, differentiation of the word tone category disappearance of stress accent and loss of the morphemic identity.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2003 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2002 Annual Research Report
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All Other

All Publications (7 results)

  • [Publications] 岩田 礼: "漢語方言詞声調的形成及発展"Festschrift for Professor W.S-Y.Wang. (2004)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Donna Erickson, Ray Iwata 他2名: "Effect of Tone Height on Jaw and Tongue Articulation in Mandarin Chinese"Proceedings of the International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Language-with emphasis on Tone Languages (Beijing). (2004)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Iwata, Ray: "On the formation of the "word tone" and its development in Chinese dialects(in Chinese)"Festschrift for Professor W.S-Y.Wang. (in press). (2004)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Erickson Donna et al.: "Effect of Tone Height on Jaw and Tongue Articulation in Mandarin Chinese."Proceedings of the International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Language-with emphasis on Tone Languages(Beijing). (in press). (2004)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 岩田 礼: "漢語方言詞声調的形成及発展"Festschrift for Professor W.S-Y.Wang. (2004)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Donna Erickson, Ray Iwata他2名: "Effect of Tone Height on Jaw and Tongue Articulation in Mandarin Chinese"Proceedings of the International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Language-with emphasis on Tone Languages (Beijing). (2004)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 岩田 礼: "中国語の声調とアクセント"音声研究. 5・1. 18-27 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2001-04-01   Modified: 2021-04-07  

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