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A contrastive study of disfluencies using parallel corpus of English and Japanese spontaneous speecheses

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K00559
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
Research InstitutionWaseda University (2021-2023)
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (2018-2020)

Principal Investigator

Watanabe Michiko  早稲田大学, 理工学術院総合研究所(理工学研究所), その他(招聘研究員) (60470027)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) Rose Ralph  早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 教授 (30404916)
Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Keywordsフィラー / 非流暢性 / 言い淀み / 日英語対照研究 / 話し言葉コーパス / 発話生成プロセス
Outline of Final Research Achievements

What kind of roles do fillers play in speech communication? Are their roles different depending on the language? To Answer these questions, we built parallel corpus of spontaneous English and Japanese. Using the corpus, we examined filler probabilities at sentence and clause boundaries and searched for factors related to the use of fillers. The results show that the boundary depth and the number of words in the immediately following clause have positive effects on the filler probabilities in both languages and that the effects tend to be stronger in English than in Japanese. The results indicate that clause-level speech planning is carried out further before the clause starts in English than in Japanese.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

日英語パラレルコーパスの完成によってフィラーの定量的な対照研究が可能になった。節頭フィラーの出現率の比較から,動詞句と語順が統語上重要な働きをする英語の方が文節単位の移動が比較的自由な日本語よりも節頭での発話プラニングの認知的負荷が高いことが示唆された。節境界のポーズ長と節頭フィラーの出現率の間には両言語とも正の相関があり,フィラーが居心地の悪い間を埋めるものという一般的な考えを実証的に裏付けた。本プロジェクトで構築した英語話し言葉コーパスCOPEは研究用に無償で公開しており,非流暢性や話し言葉の研究に広く利用可能である。

Report

(7 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (25 results)

All 2024 2023 2021 2020 2019 2018 Other

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (20 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 18 results,  Invited: 1 results) Book (1 results) Remarks (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] Ethical Considerations in the Use of Disfluencies in AI-generated Speech2023

    • Author(s)
      Rose, R.L.
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education

      Volume: 2 Pages: 128-135

    • DOI

      10.5220/0011987200003470

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] Speech Repairs and Oral Fluency: What Can We Learn from L1 Speech Data?2023

    • Author(s)
      Rose, R. L.
    • Organizer
      57th RELC International Conference
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Ethical Considerations in the Use of Disfluencies in AI-generated Speech2023

    • Author(s)
      Rose, R. L.
    • Organizer
      15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Speech Repairs and Oral Fluency: What Can We Learn from L1 Speech Data?2023

    • Author(s)
      Rose, R.L.
    • Organizer
      57th RELC International Conference
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] How do speakers pause and hesitate in English and Japanese? -A comparison using parallel corpora of English and Japanese presentation speeches2021

    • Author(s)
      Watanabe, M., Shirahata, Y., Rose, R., Maekawa, K.
    • Organizer
      Oriental COCOSDA
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Fluidity: Real-time Feedback on Acoustic Measures of Second Language Speech Fluency2020

    • Author(s)
      Rose, R.
    • Organizer
      The 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Effects of age, sex and education on speakers’ preference of filler types in Japanese2020

    • Author(s)
      Watanabe, M., Shirahata, Y.
    • Organizer
      2nd Workshop on Speech Perception and Production across the Lifespan (SPPS 2020)
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Comparison of factors related to clause-initial filler probabilities in English and Japanese2019

    • Author(s)
      Watanabe, M., Korematsu, Y.
    • Organizer
      The 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019)
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A crosslinguistic corpus study of silent and filled pauses: When do speakers use filled pauses to fill pauses?2019

    • Author(s)
      Rose, R., Watanabe M.
    • Organizer
      The 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019)
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Uh is preferred by male speakersin informal presentations in American English2019

    • Author(s)
      Watanabe, M., Korematsu, Y., Shirahata, Y.
    • Organizer
      The 9th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS 2019)
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The structural signaling effect of silent and filled pauses2019

    • Author(s)
      Rose, R.
    • Organizer
      The 9th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS 2019)
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Comparison of factors related to probabilities of three filler types,“ee”, “anoo” and “maa” in informal presentation speeches in Japanese2019

    • Author(s)
      Watanabe, M., Shirahata, Y.
    • Organizer
      The 3rd International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech (LPSS 2019)
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A Comparison of Filled Pauses in Scripted and Non-Scripted Spontaneous Speech2019

    • Author(s)
      Rose, R.
    • Organizer
      The 3rd International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech (LPSS 2019)
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Applying speech synthesis technology to assisting prosody learning2019

    • Author(s)
      Watanabe, M.
    • Organizer
      The 3rd International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech (LPSS 2019)
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] 節中のフィラー「エー」「アノー」「マー」の出現確率に関係する要因2019

    • Author(s)
      渡辺美知子・白旗悠真
    • Organizer
      言語資源活用ワークショップ2019
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Comparison of factors related to clause-initial filler probabilities in English and Japanese2019

    • Author(s)
      Michiko Watanabe and Yusaku Korematsu
    • Organizer
      The 19th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A crosslinguistic corpus study of silent and filled pauses:when do speakers use filled pauses to fill pauses?2019

    • Author(s)
      Ralph Rose and Michiko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      The 19th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The structural signalling effect of filled pauses during reading2019

    • Author(s)
      Rose, R.
    • Organizer
      CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Automated real-time feedback on second language speech fluency2019

    • Author(s)
      Rose, R.
    • Organizer
      Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) annual conference
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 『日本語話し言葉コーパス(CSJ)』模擬講演における節頭フィラーの特徴2018

    • Author(s)
      渡辺美知子・是松優作
    • Organizer
      言語資源活用ワークショップ2018(LRW)
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Real-time feedback on speed fluency with Fluidity2018

    • Author(s)
      Rose, R.
    • Organizer
      Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) International Conference
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] コーパス演習で学ぶ日本語学『日本語の文法と音声』5章 話し言葉の非流暢性2024

    • Author(s)
      丸山岳彦編著,佐野真一郎,茂木俊伸,渡辺美知子,小磯花絵,五十嵐陽介
    • Publisher
      朝倉書店
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] The Corpus of Oral Presentations in English (COPE)

    • URL

      https://www.timehill.net/asr-mt.html#department3

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] The Filled Pause Research Center (FPRC)

    • URL

      https://filledpause.org/

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] Filled Pause Research Center

    • URL

      https://filledpause.org

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2025-01-30  

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