| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥130,000 (Direct Cost: ¥100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥30,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This study tested theoretical of rules for predicting the intonation of Japanese utterances, obtained from the analysis of read sentences, in terms of their validity in natural spoken dialogues. Both the pitch prominence reduction rule for words in semantically restrictive conditions and that for words in post focal position were confirmed as mostly valid for the dialogues examined. The relative perceptual boundary between reduced prominence and non-reduced prominence was determined through perception tests using synthetic pitch contours. Three other perception tests revealed that (1) the pitch peak in words with contrastive focus is higher than that in words with information focus, (2) wide focus on two consequent words is basically realized with a prominence reduction in the second word, and (3) the degree of prominence may convey paralinguistic meaning. Moreover, the degree of prominence is shown to be a determining factor of the perceived skillfulness of broadcast narration.
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