Project/Area Number |
20K00578
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Review Section |
Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
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Research Institution | International Christian University |
Principal Investigator |
李 勝勲 国際基督教大学, 教養学部, 上級准教授 (20770134)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
品川 大輔 東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 准教授 (80513712)
松浦 年男 北星学園大学, 文学部, 教授 (80526690)
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Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2022)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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Keywords | Prosody / Particles / Japanese / Swahili / Xitsonga / Particle / Intonation / prosody / function words / Japanese dialects / Bantu languages / Sentence phonology |
Outline of Research at the Start |
This 3-year project “A crosslinguistic study of prosody of particles: Japanese and Bantu languages” investigates the role of particles and postpositions (fucntional words) in sentence phonology. Four types of languages will be investigated: (a) Standard Japanese (pitch accent, suffixes), (b) Aizu Japanese (no pitch accent, suffixes), (c) Xitsonga (tone, prefixes), and (d) Swahili (no tone, prefixes). Comparing and contrasting these four types of languages will elucidate to what extent particles and postpositions influence prosodic patterns in sentence phonology.
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Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
AY2022 was the third year of the prosody of the particle (POP) project. No new data collection of Japanese and Swahili was conducted, but owing to the easing of pandemic-related travel restrictions, data collection in the field was available in two occasions. In December 2022 and March 2023, Xitsonga data was collected in Thohoyandou, which varies information in high tone and low tone contexts. Japanese data on DP constructions, in which a noun was modified by two adjectives varying in accents, were analyzed, which informed us about how lexical accents of nouns and adjectives interact with focus prosody. The focus prosody takes precedence over lexical accents in both accented and unaccented words. We also examined prosody of a speech style of performance arts (Rakugo vs. non-Rakugo), which showed how prosodic patterns of Rakugo speech deviate from normal speech performed by individuals. Especially, vowels produced in Rakugo speech styles use larger acoustic space. For Swahili, the prosodic nature of the emphatic particle tu in declaratives and interrogatives were investigated. In both sentence types tu maintain the prominence. In addition to conference presentations, journal articles are being written to disseminate the findings.
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Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The project completed data collection, and the dissemination of research outcomes is being prepared during the extension in AY2023.
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Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In AY2023, the project will present the findings about prosody of particles in Japanese, Swahili and Xitsonga in three international conferences (HisPhonCog in May, ICPhS in August and TAI in November). We will also publish three proceedings papers (a) particles in Japaneses prosody, (b) Swahili prosody, as well as (c) prosodic features of Rakugo speech. Journal articles are being prepared as well: (i) a corpus study about the Swahili particle tu, (ii) the intonation of Swahili sentences with tu, (iii) Boundary pitch movement in Japanese particles.
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