2019 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Exploring the re-emergence of grammar: The Russian new vocative in an interplay of morphology, phonology and phonetics
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19K21642
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| Research Institution | National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics |
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Principal Investigator |
松井 真雪 大学共同利用機関法人人間文化研究機構国立国語研究所, 理論・対照研究領域, 日本学術振興会特別研究員(PD) (00759011)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-06-28 – 2020-03-31
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| Keywords | New vocative / Word-final devoicing / Intonation / Corpus / Interface theories / Russian |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Vocative expressions refer to the linguistic means that we use to directly address someone. Through a case study of the Russian “new” vocative expressions, the current project aimed to answer empirical and theoretical questions on vocative expressions in general linguistics, which include in what way the new vocatives are linguistically marked in an interplay of multiple marking strategies (such as morphology and prosody etc.) and how linguistic theories can model those interactions. Three specific research questions of the current study were as follows: (i) Is there a phonetic grammar of the new vocative in present-day Russian?; (ii) How does phonetics interact with morphology and phonology in the context of the new vocative?; (iii) How can the new vocative be modeled through the interplay of morphology, phonology and phonetics?
To address these questions, corpus-based studies were conducted by utilizing the text data in the Russian National Corpus and the audio data in the Multimodal Russian Corpus. The results so far demonstrated that (i) the new vocative is marked not only by morphology, but also by prosody such as the use of distinctive intonation; (ii) the new vocative shows irregularities in the implementation of word-final obstruent devoicing, compared with other word classes. More detailed results will be published as a journal paper in the upcoming years.
Taken together, the current study contributed to advance our understanding of the vocative typology and evolution as well as the morphology-phonology-phonetics interface theories in general linguistics.
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Research Products
(2 results)
