| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research project investigates linguistic natures of "sandhi domains" in Shanghai Chinese and Taiwan Southern-Min (TSM). In Shanghai Chinese, we pointed out that a sandhi domain is consisted of a boundary tone as well as lexical tones and that it basically corresponds to a disyllabic metrical foot. In addition, we found that the sandhi domain of Shanghai Chinese is very sensitive to the syntactic role of the phrases.
In TMS, we collected data about tone sandhi and found that the sandhi domain basically corresponds to a metrical phrase; however, pragmatic factors like focus influence the forming pattern of a sandhi domain in this language.
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