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Lexical stratification in Japanese: Phonological cues to stratal affiliations

Research Project

Project/Area Number 20K13039
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
Research InstitutionDoshisha University

Principal Investigator

Tanaka Yu  同志社大学, 文化情報学部, 助教 (30802996)

Project Period (FY) 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Keywords語種 / 和語 / 漢語 / 外来語 / 固有名 / 音声・音韻 / 日本語 / 言語理論 / 語種の区別 / 語種の特徴 / 固有名詞 / 国際ジャーナル / 国際学会 / 心理言語学実験 / コーパス / 漢字の読み / コーパス研究 / 国際学会発表 / 語彙層 / 日本語の音声的特徴 / 実験音韻論
Outline of Research at the Start

本研究は、和語・漢語・外来語などの異なる語種を併せ持つ日本語の語彙を研究対象とする。日本語の語彙が、各様の音声的特徴を持つ語種別の階層のような構造を成すとする「階層的語彙」の理論(Ito & Mester 1995)について、心理言語学実験や、コーパス・辞書データの分析を行うことにより、その妥当性を検証する。研究は、日本語の特徴を明らかにし、その理解を促進するだけでなく、英語をはじめとした異語種が混在する他の言語にも応用可能な言語理論の確立に貢献し、言語研究一般において大きな意義を持つ。

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The lexicon of Japanese is composed of words of different etymological origins, such as native words, old loanwords from Chinese, and recent loanwords from Western languages. Through corpus-based and experimental methods, this research described the phonological characteristics of each word class and showed how native Japanese speakers distinguish them based on sound differences. It was also shown that proper names constitute an independent class in the vocabulary. These findings were analyzed within a theoretical framework. Several related studies have been published on international journals and presented at conferences.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

日本語が複数の異なる語種を併せ持つことは、日本語の大きな特徴の一つであり、言語獲得の観点から一般言語学研究においても長く関心を集めてきた。本研究では、新たな手法でこの問題に取り組み、母語話者による音声の違いに基づく語種の区別の実態を明らかにしたことで、日本語のより詳しい記述と言語一般の理論の発展に貢献した。またこの知見は、非母語話者に対する日本語教育に応用できる可能性を持ち、社会的な意義も持つ。

Report

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

    (28 results)

All 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020

All Journal Article (11 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 9 results,  Open Access: 4 results) Presentation (16 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 14 results,  Invited: 3 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Learning biases in proper nouns2024

    • Author(s)
      Yu Tanaka
    • Journal Title

      Phonology

      Volume: 2024 (online) Issue: 1-2 Pages: 155-186

    • DOI

      10.1017/s0952675724000046

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Regional differences (or lack thereof) in rendaku in Japanese surnames2024

    • Author(s)
      Yu Tanaka
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America

      Volume: 9 (to appear)

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Vowels in Sino-Japanese roots: Revisited through the lens of Ural-Altaic vowel harmony2024

    • Author(s)
      Yu Tanaka
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL)

      Volume: 16 (to appear)

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Phonology of proper names2023

    • Author(s)
      Yu Tanaka
    • Journal Title

      Language and Linguistics Compass

      Volume: 17 Issue: 5

    • DOI

      10.1111/lnc3.12502

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report 2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Acoustic properties of palatalized consonants in Japanese2023

    • Author(s)
      Yu Tanaka
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS)

      Volume: 20 Pages: 2269-2273

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Vowel coalescence in colloquial Japanese: Phonological and non-phonological factors2023

    • Author(s)
      Yu Tanaka
    • Journal Title

      Japanese/Korean Linguistics

      Volume: 30 Pages: 77-91

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Learning biases in proper nouns2023

    • Author(s)
      Yu Tanaka
    • Journal Title

      Phonology

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Vowels in Sino-Japanese roots: Revisited through the lens of Ural-Altaic vowel harmony2023

    • Author(s)
      Yu Tanaka
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL) 16

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Acoustic properties of palatalized consonants in Japanese2023

    • Author(s)
      Yu Tanaka
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS)

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Partially activated morpheme boundaries in Japanese surnames2021

    • Author(s)
      Kawahara, Shigeto and Yu Tanaka
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS)

      Volume: 51 Pages: 25-38

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Testing Rosen’s Rule yet again: An experimental study2020

    • Author(s)
      Tanaka, Yu
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference

      Volume: 27 Pages: 355-364

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Productive vowel harmony in Sino-Japanese phonology2024

    • Author(s)
      Yu Tanaka
    • Organizer
      GLOW in Asia XIV
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Regional differences (or lack thereof) in rendaku in Japanese surnames2024

    • Author(s)
      Yu Tanaka
    • Organizer
      The 2024 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2024)
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Acoustic properties of palatalized consonants in Japanese2023

    • Author(s)
      Yu Tanaka
    • Organizer
      The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2023)
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report 2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Japanese /ei/ is actually resurrected in certain loans2023

    • Author(s)
      Yu Tanaka
    • Organizer
      The 13th Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL)
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report 2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Vowel coalescence in colloquial Japanese: Phonological and non-phonological factors2023

    • Author(s)
      Yu Tanaka
    • Organizer
      The 30th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The patterns of honorific prefixation in child speech: Implications for lexical stratification in Japanese2023

    • Author(s)
      Ayaka Sugawara & Yu Tanaka
    • Organizer
      LeibnizDream Goes to Japan & Core-to-Core Comes to Italy: Studies on the Acquisition of Japanese
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 固有名詞における言語獲得バイアスの効果2022

    • Author(s)
      田中雄
    • Organizer
      関西言語学会第47回大会
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Vowels in Sino-Japanese roots: Revisited through the lens of Ural-Altaic vowel harmony2022

    • Author(s)
      Yu Tanaka
    • Organizer
      The 16th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL)
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Assimilation in Sino-Japanese compounds and phonological naturalness2022

    • Author(s)
      Yu Tanaka
    • Organizer
      The 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP)
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 借用語における拗音化の定量的分析2022

    • Author(s)
      田中雄・土川京子
    • Organizer
      日本言語学会第165回大会
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Lexical stratification and Sino-Japaneseness: An experimental study2021

    • Author(s)
      Tanaka, Yu
    • Organizer
      The Phonology-Morphology Circle of Korea
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] A potential learning aid for lexical stratification: The patterns of honorific prefixation2021

    • Author(s)
      Tanaka, Yu
    • Organizer
      The Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP) 2021
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Phonotactics across boundaries: Grammar leakage and OCP-sonorant in Japanese2021

    • Author(s)
      Tanaka, Yu
    • Organizer
      The 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2021)
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Lexical stratification and Sino-Japaneseness: An experimental study2021

    • Author(s)
      Tanaka, Yu
    • Organizer
      The 2021 Summer Conference of the Phonology-Morphology Circle of Korea
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] The /ei/-/ou/ asymmetry in Japanese: A corpus study2020

    • Author(s)
      Tanaka, Yu
    • Organizer
      The 28th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Partially activated morpheme boundaries in Japanese surnames2020

    • Author(s)
      Kawahara, Shigeto and Yu Tanaka
    • Organizer
      The 51st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 51)
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] (書名)日本語研究と言語理論から見た言語類型論、(掲載論文名)最適性理論と言語類型論2021

    • Author(s)
      (編)窪薗晴夫、野田 尚史、プラシャント パルデシ、松本 曜、(掲載論文著者)田中 雄
    • Total Pages
      328
    • Publisher
      開拓社
    • ISBN
      9784758922982
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report

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Published: 2020-04-28   Modified: 2025-01-30  

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