| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Sounds of several accents of Scottish English were recorded on three research trips to Scotland. The sounds were analyzed by speech-analyzing software. Consequently the vowel differences among accents of Scottish English and the features of intonation patterns of its accents appeared. The subjects were required to read a word list aloud, each word twice in a certain carrier sentence, for vowels. The first and second formant frequency values and duration time of vowels were measured. Acoustic diagrams of vowels show the differences among the accents, and the duration time and the trajectory length of formant trajectory dynamics of diphthongs explain the differences of accents. The results were discussed phonologically. For the study of intonation, approximately four-minute spontaneous dialogues or monologues were recorded. Characteristic intonation patterns of accents were revealed by measuring the pitch of tunes. Some devices for the ToBI transcription system were also proposed.
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