Studies on discourse markers based on acoustic features for understanding discourse and conversation structure

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02468
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: KODA NAOMI 東北大学, 文学研究科, 准教授 (40303763)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 接続詞 / 談話標識 / 音声 / 音響 / 会話 / 談話

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study presents an acoustic analysis of Japanese connectives and discourse markers in naturally-occurred conversation. There is a fairly large literature on connectives and discourse markers, but the analysis of acoustic features of these connectives and discourse markers in every-day communication is still remained.　This study tries to obtain the phonetic detail of the varied function of connectives and discourse markers as a resource which conversationalists use both to achieve things in the world and to manage the flow of talk (Local 2007:1). The interrelationships between phonetic characteristics such as pitch, intensity, and tempo and the contextual and communicative function of Japanese connective was examined.

Free Research Field

言語学