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2000 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

The Effect of Pause Insertion on the Temporal Structure of Articulation

Research Project

Project/Area Number 11610564
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 言語学・音声学
Research InstitutionToyama Prefectural University

Principal Investigator

KAKITA Kuniko  Toyama Prefectural University Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences Professor, 工学部, 教授 (10148827)

Project Period (FY) 1999 – 2000
KeywordsPause / Pre-pausal lengthening / Speech rate / Mora duration / Segment duration / Rhythm / Spoken language / Progressive lengthening
Research Abstract

The aim of the present study is to clarify the effects of the insertion of an intra-sentential pause on the temporal organization of an utterance.
A Japanese test sentence, with a possible pause location at a major syntactic boundary roughly in the middle of the sentence, was produced by native speakers under two contrasting conditions, i.e.with and without an intra-sentential pause, and the durational properties of the utterances were analyzed acoustically.
The results indicated that the insertion of an intra-sentential pause has a major effect on the immediately-prepausal region of an utterance in the form of so-called 'prepausal lengthening'. It was also indicated that an intra-sentential pause brings about minor changes in the temporal organization of the remaining parts of the utterance, although the exact location and the extent of these minor changes varied from speaker to speaker.
Pre-pausal lengthening was examined in detail, and it was found that, in Japanese, it occurs primarily in the mora that immediately precedes a pause. Interestingly it was also found that, in some speakers, pre-pausal lengthening extends over two moras. The lengthening of an additional mora was, however, substantially smaller than that of the immediately-prepausal mora. The results also revealed that the vowels bear the major burden of lengthening in Japanese, especialy as concerns the immediately pre-pausa mora.

  • Research Products

    (8 results)

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All Publications (8 results)

  • [Publications] Kakita,Kuniko: "The Effect of Pause Insertion on the Temporal Structure of an Utterance"Bulletin of Toyama Prefectural University. 9. 21-29 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] Kakita,Kuniko: "Temporal Characteristics of the Utterances Produced with an Intra-sentence Pause : An Acoustic Analysis of Articulation Rate"Proceedings of the 34th Colloquium of Linguistics. (In press). (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] Kakita,Kuniko: "Durational Properties of Pre-pausal Articulation"Bulletin of Toyama Prefectural University. 10. 21-28 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] Kakita,Kuniko: "Aspects of Pre-pausal Lengthening in Japanese"Proceedings of the 35th Colloquium of Linguistics. (In press). (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] Kuniko Kakita: "The Effect of Pause Insertion on the Temporal Structure of an Utterance"Bulletin of Toyama Prefectural University. 9. 21-29 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Kuniko Kakita: "Temporal Characteristics of the Utterances Produced with an Intra-sentence Pause : An Acoustic Analysis of Articulation Rate"Proceedings of the 34th Colloquium of Linguistics ("Linguistik International" Series), Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt/Main. (In press).

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Kuniko Kakita: "Durational Properties of Pre-pausal Articulation"Bulletin of Toyama Prefectural University. 10. 21-28 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Kuniko Kakita: "Aspects of Pre-pausal Lengthening in Japanese"Proceedings of the 35th Colloquium of Linguistics ("Linguistik International" Series), Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt/Main. (In press).

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2002-03-26  

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