Basic study on accents of verb negative forms with level accent in the Tokyo dialect--Do young people use level accent in verb negative forms?

• Project/Area Number: 25370424
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
• Principal Investigator: Misono Yasuko 東京農工大学, 国際センター, 教授 (00209777)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
• Keywords: 東京方言 / 動詞否定形 / 平板型アクセント / 起伏型アクセント / アクセント型の対応 / 年齢による差 / 地元度 / 共通語化 / 動詞否定形アクセント / 平板型アクセント動詞 / 起伏型アクセント動詞 / 平板型 / 起伏型 / 否定形アクセント / 平板にいう範囲 / 平板型動詞否定形 / 非平板化 / 東京２３区成育 / 東京３代目 / 伝統的アクセントの保持 / 伝統的アクセントの変化 / 東京アクセント / 平板型アクセント動詞否定形ト / 旧東京市15区内生育 / 80代 / 伝統的アクセント / 規則的アクセント

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Accents of verb negative forms in the Tokyo dialect were studied. Four verbs which have level accent and four verbs which have falling accent were selected. 31 sentences were prepared for each one of the verbs. Native speakers of the Tokyo dialect born from 1920-1995 were asked to read these sentences. Differences by age were found in the accents of verb negative forms with level accents in the sentence final position. The speakers who were born before the WWII showed individual differences in the ratio of level accent of verb negative forms. The speakers who were born after 1945 did not show much individual differences. Especially those who were born after 1967 used level accent more than 90 percent of the verb negative forms in the sentence final position. The "regionality"(Chambers 2002) index shows a mild tendency that the speakers who have higher regionality scores use the level accent more in the verb negative forms of sentence final position.

Research Products

• [Presentation] 東京方言否定形にみられる年齢差 (2016)
  • Author(s): 御園生保子
  • Organizer: 日本方言研究会第103回研究発表会
  • Place of Presentation: 山形県山形市片谷地 東北文教大学
• [Presentation] 生え抜き話者における東京方言動詞否定形のアクセント (2015)
  • Author(s): 御園生保子
  • Organizer: 日本方言研究会
  • Place of Presentation: パルトピア山口(山口県山口市）
  • Year and Date: 2015-10-30