| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥1,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The fieldwork on accents in the following areas was conducted by this grant, which enabled the digitalized sound data to be collected by using a PC and a digital hard-disc recorder (Roland R-4):
(1) Kan'onji (Kagawa Prefecture), Awa-ikeda (Tokushima Prefecture) and other areas
(2) Tadotsu, and Mitoyo, and Awa-shima, Shishi-jima islands (Kagawa Prefecture)
(3) Kyoto (Yawata city) and Osaka (Kishiwada and Toyonaka city)
(4) Yoshinogawa-shi (Tokushima Prefecture), Aki and Kochi (Kochi Prefecture) and other areas
(5) Ibuki-jima, and Kan'onji (Kagawa Prefecture), and Kawanoe (Ehime Prefecture)
The sound data of the typical Keihan-type accent systems (Osaka and Kyoto), and other non-Sanuki systems in the same Shikoku area, such as Aki and Kochi city, were also collected. The comparative studies between these systems and the Sanuki system revealed the following results:
(a) The unaccented H-tone (high-tone) pitch pattern in Ibukijima is clearly different from those of other systems with the same H-tone patterns, such as Tokushima, Osaka, Kyoto, Aki, and Kochi;
(b) In most of the Sanuki areas, the unaccented H-tone patterns show a pitch pattern with gradual declining pitch, which are different from the so-called 'Kakou-shiki (slightly declining)' accent pattern observed in Ibuki-jima;
(c) In the Sanuki-type systems, the unaccented L-tone (low-tone) patterns also show some peculiar phonetic features, which clearly differs from those in Keihan (Kyoto-Osaka) type systems, in that (1) they do not begin with relatively lower pitch than other patterns, (2) the general pitch range is relatively high rather than low, and (3) they do not show a rising pitch patterns toward the end of each phrase as do the corresponding patterns in Kyoto and Osaka.
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