Ultrasound study of voicing in Russian obstruents

• Project/Area Number: 15H06832
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: Matsui Mayuki 大学共同利用機関法人人間文化研究機構国立国語研究所, 理論・対照研究領域, プロジェクトPDフェロー (00759011)
• Research Collaborator: Arakawa Yoshiko St. Petersburg State University, Dr. ; Konstantin I. Belousov Perm State University, Dr. ; Galina E. Kedrova Moscow State University, Dr.
• Project Period (FY): 2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
• Keywords: Articulatory phonetics / Ultrasound imaging / Voicing contrast / Russian / Voicing Contrast / Tongue root / Laryngeal contrast / Supra-laryngeal control / Contrast reduction / Articulatory Phonetics / Ultrasound Imaging / Laryngeal typology

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of the present study is to examine Russian voiced and voiceless obstruents in terms of articulatory phonetics. An ultrasound imaging technique was employed to visualize and quantify the movements of articulators. The results revealed some interesting aspects of tongue configuration during the production of Russian voiced and voiceless obstruents, such as interactions between voicing contrast and palatalization contrast. The results were situated in the cross-linguistic studies of supra-laryngeal gestural control during the production of laryngeal based contrast.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Interactions between Speaking Rate and Temporal Implementation of Voicing Contrast: A Pilot Acoustic Study (2017)
  • Author(s): Matsui, Mayuki
  • Journal Title: 国立国語研究所論集 = NINJAL Research Papers Volume: 12 Issue: 12 Pages: 47-62
  • DOI: 10.15084/00000853
  • NAID: 120005950340
  • URL: https://repository.ninjal.ac.jp/records/869
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] 喉頭素性理論「Laryngeal realism」に関する一論考 ―類型論の視座から― [A note on the “laryngeal realism”: A typological perspective] (2017)
  • Author(s): 松井真雪
  • Journal Title: 北海道言語文化研究 [Journal of the Hokkaido Linguistic and Cultural Studies] Volume: 15 Pages: 147-166
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Phonological symmetry, phonetic asymmetry, and the acoustic consequences of voicing in Russian (2016)
  • Author(s): Matsui, Mayuki
  • Journal Title: Phonology, its Faces and Interfaces. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Volume: - Pages: 83-102
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Phonological symmetry, phonetic asymmetry, and the acoustic consequences of voicing in Russian (2016)
  • Author(s): Matsui, Mayuki
  • Journal Title: Jolanta Szpyra-Kozlowska and Eugeniusz Cyran (eds.), Phonology, its Faces and Interfaces. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Volume: なし
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] Voicing and tongue-root coordination in Russian word-medial intervocalic sibilants: An ultrasound study (2017)
  • Author(s): Matsui, Mayuki
  • Organizer: Approaches to Phonology and Phonetics 3
  • Place of Presentation: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University (Lublin, Poland)
  • Year and Date: 2017-06-23
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Ultrasound investigation of Russian consonants (2017)
  • Author(s): Matsui, Mayuki
  • Organizer: Цифровая гуманитаристика: ресурсы, методы, исследования [Digital Humanities: Resources, Methods, and Research]
  • Place of Presentation: Perm State University (Perm, Russia)
  • Year and Date: 2017-05-16
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] 有声性の対立を実現するための、口腔での調音調整: ロシア語の場合 [Supra-laryngeal gestural control for voicing contrast: The case of Russian] (2016)
  • Author(s): 松井真雪
  • Organizer: 東京音韻論研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 首都大学東京 (東京)
  • Year and Date: 2016-10-08
• [Presentation] 発話速度に応じた、閉鎖音の時間特徴の可変性: 通言語的観点から [Variability in the temporal details of stops as a function of speaking rate: A cross-linguistic perspective] (2016)
  • Author(s): 松井真雪
  • Organizer: NINJALサロン
  • Place of Presentation: 国立国語研究所 (東京)
  • Year and Date: 2016-06-30
• [Presentation] 発話速度に応じた、閉鎖音の時間特徴の可変性: 通言語的観点から (2016)
  • Author(s): 松井真雪
  • Organizer: NINJALサロン
  • Place of Presentation: 国立国語研究所 (東京都立川市)
  • Year and Date: 2016-06-28
• [Presentation] 音声知覚の非対称性と音韻理論: ロシア語の研究から分かってきたこと [Asymmetries in speech perception and phonological theory: Recent contributions from Russian] (2016)
  • Author(s): 松井真雪
  • Organizer: ロシア語研究会木二会例会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京外国語大学 (東京)
  • Year and Date: 2016-05-21
• [Presentation] 音声知覚の非対称性と音韻理論: ロシア語の研究から分かってきたこと (2016)
  • Author(s): 松井真雪
  • Organizer: ロシア語研究会木二会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京外国語大学 (東京都府中市)
  • Year and Date: 2016-05-21
• [Presentation] 中和と聴覚特性: 同定力と弁別力の検討 (2016)
  • Author(s): 松井真雪
  • Organizer: 北海道言語研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 室蘭工業大学 (北海道室蘭市)
  • Year and Date: 2016-03-07
• [Presentation] Phonological symmetry but phonetic asymmetry: Some observations on voicing contrast (2015)
  • Author(s): Matsui, Mayuki
  • Organizer: Phonetics/Phonology group meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
  • Year and Date: 2015-10-30
  • Invited