2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Construction and Study of Parallel Dialectal Speech Corpus for the Contrastive Analysis of SFP(Sentence Final Particle)'s Intonation

Research Project

Project/Area Number	15520253
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Linguistics
Research Institution	Nara University of Education
Principal Investigator	MAEDA Hiroyuki Nara University of Education, Department of Education, Associate Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (40219275)
Project Period (FY)	2003 – 2005
Keywords	SFP(Sentence Final Particle) / parallel corpus / intonation / Japanese dialect / interjection / prosody / boundary tone / 境界トーン
Research Abstract	Parallel Dialectal Speech Corpus has been constructed including about an hour-length conversation recorded at Nachiai, Totsukawa Village in Nara Prefecture. In this corpus, each utterance is linked to a sound file, and transcribed into word-segmented katakata character sequence with its Standard Japanese translation. Based on the analysis result of this corpus, it is emphasized that a development of a SFP (Sentence Final Particle)'s grammaticalized syntactic function may be accompanied by differentiation of properties in other linguistic components such as sound and discourse. Additionally, the result of a basic research is shown which aims to reveal the intonational properties of Kyoto Japanese utterances in Edo era by analyzing the Heikyoku notes.