| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The present author thoroughly revised the genealogy of accent systems of Japanese dialects from a structuralist perspective. Japanese prosodic systems are classified into two types. Pitch accent dialects are distributed in Honshum, Shikoku and Northeastern Kyushu while lexcal tone systems are predominant in Southeastern Kyushu and the Ryukyu islands. Correspondences in prosodic classes indicate that the two types are cognate. The author demonstrates all the pitch accent systems in Honshu and Shikoku are offshoots of a single proto-form, which was an innovation from an earlier lexical tone system. Kinki and Shikoku systems are shown to be further innovations toward lexical tone systems, rather than archaic forms as previously imagined.
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