2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Descriptive Preliminary Studies for Constructing Phonetic Database of Icelandic
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15K16729
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Muroran Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | アイスランド語 / 音声学 / 音韻論 / 記述言語学 / 発音データベース |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Through the series of field researches the following three facts were revealed on the accent system, preaspiration, and sonorant devoicing in Icelandic: i) accent falls as a rule on the first syllable of a word, but accent falls on other syllables than the first in some foreign words which are relatively new and unknown to speakers; ii) it has been revealed that the occurrence of preaspiration is conditioned by the presence or absence of accent (stress); iii) sonorant devoicing phenomena may occur between a word boundary as well as with in a word, which is unknown to the previous Icelandic phonologists. In addition to the present research project, another quite interesting fact has been obtained on Icelandic intonation: interrogative sentences always have a falling terminal tone regardless of their construction and whether they have interrogative pronouns or adverbs.
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| Free Research Field |
言語学
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