Network formation for interdisciplinary and international studies of geminate consonants

• Project/Area Number: 17K18502
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Literature, Linguistics, and related fields
• Research Institution: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: KUBOZONO HARUO 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, 教授 (80153328)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-06-30 – 2020-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
• Budget Amount: ¥6,240,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,440,000); Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000); Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
• Keywords: 促音 / 重子音 / 日本語 / 対照研究 / ネットワーク形成 / モーラ / リズム / 国際ネットワーク / 音韻論 / 実験音声学 / 日本語教育 / 音楽 / 言語獲得 / 音声知覚

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study established a collaborative research network whereby researchers on geminate consonants in Japanese and other languages can collaborate with each other and understand geminate consonants better from the perspectives of interdisciplinary and international perspectives. The interdisciplinary network involves specialists in linguistics, phonetics, psycholinguistics, developmental psychology and music. The international network involves researchers on Japanese, Italian, Barber and many other languages with a contrast in consonant length.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の学術的意義は、これまで複数の研究領域で独立してなされてきた促音の研究を融合し、分野の壁を超えた共同研究の体制を整えたことである。また日本語の促音を重子音やリズムの研究と位置づけ、海外の研究者達との交流・意見交換を通じて、国際共同研究を行う基盤を整えた。

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] Hanyang University/Seoul National University(韓国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] University of California, Santa Cruz(米国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] Hanyang University(韓国)
• [Journal Article] Neutralizations in vowel length and word accent in Japanese (2020)
  • Author(s): Haruo Kubozono
  • Journal Title: Kobe Papers in Linguistics Volume: 12 Pages: 69-79
• [Journal Article] The phonological structure of Japanese mimetics and motherese (2019)
  • Author(s): Haruo Kubozono
  • Journal Title: Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives Volume: -- Pages: 35-56
  • DOI: 10.1075/ill.16.03kub
  • ISBN: 9789027203113, 9789027262608
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Preboundary lengthening in Japanese: To what extent does lexical pitch accent and moraic structure matter? (2019)
  • Author(s): Seo, J., S. Kim, H. Kubozono, and T. Cho
  • Journal Title: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Volume: 146 Issue: 3 Pages: 1817-1823
  • DOI: 10.1121/1.5122191
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Prosodic evidence for syllable structure in Japanese (2018)
  • Author(s): Haruo Kubozono
  • Journal Title: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics Volume: 88 Pages: 35-50
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Loanword accent of Kyungsang Korean: A moraic analysis (2018)
  • Author(s): Haruo Kubozono
  • Journal Title: Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics Volume: NA Pages: 303-329
  • DOI: 10.1075/la.250.15kub
  • ISBN: 9789027201720, 9789027263292
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] Mora sensitivity in Kagoshima Japanese: Evidence from no contraction (2018)
  • Author(s): Haruo Kubozono
  • Journal Title: Hana-bana: A Festschrift for Junko Ito and Armin Mester Volume: NA Pages: 1-11
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 日本語のリズム (2017)
  • Author(s): 窪薗晴夫
  • Journal Title: AJALT Volume: 40 Pages: 26-30
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] どうして赤ちゃん言葉とオノマトペは似ているの？ (2017)
  • Author(s): 窪薗晴夫
  • Journal Title: オノマトペの謎 Volume: - Pages: 121-142
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 日本語におけるアクセントと母音長の中和について (2019)
  • Author(s): 窪薗晴夫
  • Organizer: Kobe-NINJAL-Oxford言語学コロキウム
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Interaction between rhythmic structure and preboundary lengthening in Japanese (2019)
  • Author(s): Seo, J., S. Kim, H. Kubozono, and T. Cho.
  • Organizer: 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Word accent and vowel length in the postlexical phonology of Japanese (2019)
  • Author(s): Haruo Kubozono
  • Organizer: JK27 Satellite Workshop
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Evidence against superheavy syllables in Japanese: Quantity sensitivity in Tokyo and Kagoshima Japanese (2018)
  • Author(s): Haruo Kubozono
  • Organizer: 7th International Conference on Phonology and Morphology
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Effects of mora, lexical pitch accent, and focus on Japanese preboundary lengthening (2018)
  • Author(s): Seo, J., S. Kim, H. Kubozono, and T. Cho
  • Organizer: 26th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 借用語音韻論と促音 (2018)
  • Author(s): 窪薗晴夫
  • Organizer: 促音ワークショップ
• [Book] オノマトペの謎 (2017)
  • Author(s): 窪薗晴夫
  • Total Pages: 165
  • Publisher: 岩波書店
  • ISBN: 9784000296618
• [Funded Workshop] The 6th International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology (2019)
• [Funded Workshop] JK 27 Satellite Workshop (2019)
• [Funded Workshop] 5th International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology (2018)