Articulatory Organisation and Prosody : The Parametric Phonetics of Allophonic Variations in English

• Project/Area Number: 17520278
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Nihon University
• Principal Investigator: NAKAMURA Mitsuhiro Nihon University, 経済学部, 教授 (10256787)
• Project Period (FY): 2005 – 2008
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2008)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2008: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000); Fiscal Year 2007: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000); Fiscal Year 2006: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
• Keywords: 音声学 / 言語学 / 調音動作 / 発音変異形 / 韻律制御 / プロソディ / 調音パラメタ / 調音タイミング

Research Abstract

話しことばの産出に関わる「喉頭、咽頭、舌、両唇、顎、軟口蓋」は、ひとつの機能的単位であるという立場から、それら調音器官の制御パタンと言語学的情報の音声実現との関係を追究した。「調音器官の動き」に基づく接近法(調音パラメタ音声学)と「調音の構え」に基づく接近法(伝統的調音音声学)とを相補的に位置づけ、言語音声の調音における分節的側面と連続的側面を共に探り、成果を音声学の学習において実践的に応用することも視野に入れた。調音動作の動態観測と分析に基づく本研究の成果は、音声産出・知覚機構の研究と音韻理論の研究の接点に関する理解を深めることに貢献するものである。

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Articulatory Characteristics of Function Words in English : a Case Study (2008)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro, Nakamura
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the Eighth International Seminar on Speech Production, Strasbourg, France Pages: 213-216
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Prosodic Position Effects and Function Words in English : a Pilot Study (2008)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro, Nakamura
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia Pages: 784-784
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Prosodic Position Effects and Functions Words in English : a Pilot Study (2008)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of Interspeech 2008 Incorporating SST 2008, Brisbane, Australia. (CD-ROM) Pages: 784-784
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Articulatory Characteristics of Function Words in English : a Case Study・ (2008)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Speech Production, Strasbourg, France. 第1巻 Pages: 213-216
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Making Web-based Lectures on English Phonetics: an interim report (2007)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference 2007, University College London, England(CD-ROM) Pages: 1-4
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Parametric Phonetics : an exercise in the dynamic characterisation of sound patterns (2006)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro, Nakamura
  • Journal Title: 日本英語音声学会編『Hyun Bok Lee 博士 古希祝い論文集』(『英語音声学』第9・10合併号) Pages: 233-250
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] The Spatiotemporal Effects of Speaking Rate on Gestural Coordination : an EPG study、Proceedings of the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2006 (2006)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro, Nakamura
  • Journal Title: University of Auckland, New Zealand (CD-ROM) Pages: 301-306
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Intergestural Coordination and Speaking Rat : an EPG study of palatal and palatalised consonants in Japanese 、 Stem-, Spraak-En Taalpathologie : The 5th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Nijmegen the Netherlands, June 7-10 (2006)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro, Nakamura
  • Journal Title: 10, 2006 : abstracts. Vol.14, Supplement, Nijmegen University Press Pages: 21-21
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Parametric Phonetics : an exercise in the dynamic characterisation of sound patterns. (2006)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  • Journal Title: 日本英語音声学会『Hyun Bok Lee博士 古希祝い論文集』(『英語音声学』) 第9・10号合併号 Pages: 233-250
• [Journal Article] The Spatiotemporal Effects of Speaking Rate on Gestural Coordination : an EPG study. (2006)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2006, University of Auckland, New Zealand. CD-ROM Pages: 301-306
• [Journal Article] Intergestural Coordination and Speaking Rate : an EPG study of palatal and palatalised consonants in Japanese. (2006)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  • Journal Title: Stem-, Spraak- En Taalpathologie : The 5th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Nijmegen the Netherlands, June 7-10, 2006 : abstracts. Nijmegen University Press. Vol. 14 Supplement Pages: 21-21
• [Journal Article] he Articulation of the Japanese [ts, t〓] : preliminary considerations (2005)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro, Nakamura
  • Journal Title: 日本英語音声学会中部支部編『英語教育音声学と学際研究 : 中部支部創立10 周年記念論文集』 Pages: 31-41
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] a parametric approach to the characterisation of sound patterns (2005)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro, Nakamura、Segments and Articulatory Gestures
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the English Phonetic Society of Japan Tenth National Conference and the First International Congress of Phoneticians of English, 5-6 November 2005, Kochi University, Japan (CD-ROM) Pages: 59-68
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Laryngeal-oral Coarticulation : a case study (2005)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro, Nakamura
  • Journal Title: 日本言語学会第131回全国大会予稿集 Pages: 254-259
• [Journal Article] Articulatory Constraints and Coronal Stops : an EPG study (2005)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro, Nakamura
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Lisboa, 2005 (CD-ROM) Pages: 1017-1020
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Parametric Phonetics : an exercise in the dynamic explanation of sound patterns (2005)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro, Nakamura
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference 2005, London, UK (CD-ROM) Pages: 1-4
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Parametric Phonetics : an exercise in the dynamic explanation of sound patterns. (2005)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference 2005 (online proceedings, http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/ptlc2005/ptlc2005.htm) CD-ROM Pages: 1-4
• [Journal Article] Segments and Articulatory Gestures : a parametric approach to the characterisation of sound patterns. (2005)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the English Phonetic Society of Japan 10th National Conference and the First International Congress of Phoneticians of English, 5-6 November 2005, Kochi University, Japan. CD-ROM Pages: 59-68
• [Presentation] Articulatory Characteristics of Function Words in English : a Case Study (2008)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro, Nakamura
  • Organizer: The Eighth International Seminar on Speech Production
  • Place of Presentation: LORIA ストラスブール・フランス
  • Year and Date: 2008-12-09
• [Presentation] Articulatory Characteristics of Function Words in English : a Case Study・ (2008)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  • Organizer: The 8th International Conference on Speech Production, Strasbourg, France.
  • Place of Presentation: Strasbourg, France
  • Year and Date: 2008-12-09
• [Presentation] Prosodic Position Effects and Function Words in English : a Pilot Study (2008)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro, Nakamura
  • Organizer: Interspeech 2008
  • Place of Presentation: ブリスベンコンベンションセンター・オーストラリア
  • Year and Date: 2008-09-24
• [Presentation] Prosodic Position Effects and Function Words in English : a Pilot study (2008)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  • Organizer: Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia.
  • Place of Presentation: Brisbane, Australia
  • Year and Date: 2008-09-24
• [Presentation] 音声実現形としての語の特徴 (2007)
  • Author(s): 中村光宏
  • Organizer: 日本大学英文学会10月例会・英語学シンポジウム『語をとらえる』
  • Place of Presentation: 日本大学文理学部
  • Year and Date: 2007-10-20
• [Presentation] 音声実現形としての語の特徴 (2007)
  • Author(s): 中村光宏
  • Organizer: 日本大学英文学会10月例会英語学シンポジウム「語をとらえる」
  • Place of Presentation: 日本大学文理学部
  • Year and Date: 2007-10-20
• [Presentation] Making Web-based Lectures on English Phonetics : an interim report (2007)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro, Nakamura
  • Organizer: Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference 2007
  • Place of Presentation: ロンドン大学ユニバーシティコレッジ・イギリス
  • Year and Date: 2007-08-25
• [Presentation] Making Web-based Lectures on English Phonetics: an interim report (2007)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  • Organizer: Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference 2007
  • Place of Presentation: University College London, England
  • Year and Date: 2007-08-25
• [Presentation] The Spatio-temporal Effects of Speaking Rate on Gestural Coordination : an EPG study (2006)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro, Nakamura
  • Organizer: The 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
  • Place of Presentation: オークランド大学・ニュージーランド
  • Year and Date: 2006-12-06
• [Presentation] Intergestural Coordination and Speaking Rate : an EPG study of palatal and palatalised consonants in Japanese (2006)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro, Nakamura
  • Organizer: The Fifth International Conference on Speech Motor Control
  • Place of Presentation: ラドバウンド大学・オランダ
  • Year and Date: 2006-06-08
• [Presentation] Laryngeal-oral Coarticulation : a case study (2005)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro, Nakamura
  • Organizer: 日本言語学会第131回全国大会ワークショップ『Voicing Categories』
  • Place of Presentation: 広島大学
  • Year and Date: 2005-11-20
• [Presentation] Segments and Articulatory Gestures : a parametric approach to the characterisation of sound patterns (2005)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro, Nakamura
  • Organizer: 第10回日本英語音声学会全国大会・第1回国際英語音声学者会議
  • Place of Presentation: 高知大学
  • Year and Date: 2005-11-05
• [Presentation] Articulatory Constraints and Coronal Stops : an EPG study (2005)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro, Nakamura
  • Organizer: The Ninth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
  • Place of Presentation: Centro Cultural deBelem リスボン・ポルトガル
  • Year and Date: 2005-09-06
• [Presentation] Parametric Phonetics : an exercise in the dynamic explanation of sound patterns (2005)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro, Nakamura
  • Organizer: Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference 2005
  • Place of Presentation: ロンドン大学ユニバーシティコレッジ・イギリス
  • Year and Date: 2005-07-27