2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An analysis of "phonological units" in Chinese dialects
| Project/Area Number |
15K16742
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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 | Kobe University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 中国語 / 上海語 / ビン南語 / 音韻論 / 声調 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research project investigates linguistic natures of "sandhi domains" in Shanghai Chinese and Taiwan Southern-Min (TSM). In Shanghai Chinese, we pointed out that a sandhi domain is consisted of a boundary tone as well as lexical tones and that it basically corresponds to a disyllabic metrical foot. In addition, we found that the sandhi domain of Shanghai Chinese is very sensitive to the syntactic role of the phrases.
In TMS, we collected data about tone sandhi and found that the sandhi domain basically corresponds to a metrical phrase; however, pragmatic factors like focus influence the forming pattern of a sandhi domain in this language.
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| Free Research Field |
音韻論
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