| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,220,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
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| Research Abstract |
I discussed how the semantics of conjunctions affects prosody across clauses/sentences. Nespor and Vogel (1986) observe that phonological rules across sentences may apply when there exists a positive semantic relation (i.e., and, therefore, because) between two sentences.
The question is whether a positive semantic relation universally helps to join two prosodic domains. I conducted experiments to see whether this is the case in English and Japanese. The result shows that in English, a positive semantic relation helps to join two prosodic domains, but a negative semantic relation does not. However, in Japanese, two prosodic domains were more detached in the examples of positive semantic relations than in those of negative semantic relations. I discussed syntactic brackets, word/morpheme status of conjunctives and the semantic closeness of negative relations.
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