2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Field and Descriptive Studies on Endangered Languages
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11691008
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
言語学・音声学
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
TSUNODA Tasaku Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo, Professor, 大学院・人文社会系研究科, 教授 (60126878)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
FUKUI Rei Graduate School of Humanities and Sociplogy, The University of Tokyo, Associate Professor, 大学院・人文社会系研究科, 助教授 (50199189)
MATSUMURA Kazuto Graduate School of Humanities and Sociplogy, The University of Tokyo, Professor, 大学院・人文社会系研究科, 教授 (40165866)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2000
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| Keywords | endangered languages / Australia / Russia / Uralic / Korea / Europe / grammar / vocabulary |
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| Research Abstract |
Tsunoda conducted fieldwork in the languages Wanyjirra and Jaru spoken in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, and collected information on the vocabulary, morphology, syntax and sociolinguistics of these languages. In addition to descriptive linguistic materials, socio-cultural materials such as songs and mythology in these languages were recorded and transcribed.
Matsumura conducted fieldwork in the Baltic-Finnic languages in the Leningrad region. In addition to Votian data, he also collected / obtained texts in other Baltic-Finnic languages including Izhorian, Vepsian and Karelian. Phonetic transcriptions of field recordings were tentatively annotated with corpus linguistics and discourse analysis in mind.
Fukui conducted field surveys in the phonology and vocabulary of the Jeonrado and Kyeongsangdo dialects of Korean. Evidence was found for the existence of pitch accent. Additional electronic resources of Korean phonology were created and researches were done in the formats for the exchange and sharing of linguistic data.
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