2020 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
A crosslinguistic study of prosody of particles: Japanese and Bantu languages
| Project/Area Number |
20K00578
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| Research Institution | International Christian University |
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Principal Investigator |
李 勝勲 国際基督教大学, 教養学部, 准教授 (20770134)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
品川 大輔 東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 准教授 (80513712)
松浦 年男 北星学園大学, 文学部, 教授 (80526690)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | prosody / function words / Japanese dialects / Swahili / Xitsonga |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This 3-year project that investigates what role functional words such as particles play in the prosodic grammar. In AY2020, although the COVID-19 prevented regular data collection processes, the project was able to achieve multiple goals. For Standard Japanese, data of DPs with a noun and two adjectives varying in pitch accent pattern was collected after compiling a series of particles based on phonological criteria. We found that the particles display prosodic patterns when all the pitch accents are neutralized inside a DP. In Swahili part of the study, we investigated the distribution of TU 'only' and have analyzed how the scope of TU affects prosody. When TU has a scope over the VP, TU is devoiced with final lowering. When TU scopes over an immediately preceding DP, TU may not be devoiced, and a full vowel is realized. For Xitsonga, we analyzed the role of pronominal prefixes and the upstep phenomenon, which analyzed using two framework: syntax-prosody interface theory and messaged oriented phonology (MOP) theory. In sum, these research findings show that particles display phonological shapes based on the environment or scopes, which suggests that the non-trivial role of participles in prosody needs to be further investigated.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Activities in AY2020 standardized the methods of creating stimuli and also methods of collecting data. The team of research assistants was a great help in processing this data. Weekly one-hour meetings for each language (Japanese, Swahili and Xitsonga) allowed not only the stimuli creation, but also data analyses of the collected data.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In AY2021, the DP data in Japanese will be disseminated as a journal paper, and NPI data will be collected with varying pitch accent conditions. The Swahili part of the project will also move from DP elements to VP elements for understanding the prosody of the particles that differ from Xitsonga VP elements. We also plan to collect data of Japanese dialects without pitch accents to compare with the data collected in AY2020.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Due to the COVID-19, travel became impossible, and the budget was used for online meetings and involving research assistants in the project.
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Research Products
(26 results)
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[Journal Article] South Ndebele (S407)2021
Author(s)
Masilela, Piet, Daisuke Shinagawa, Bafana Mathibela
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Journal Title
Descriptive materials of morphosyntactic microvariation in Bantu vol. 2: A microparametric survey of morphosyntactic microvariation in Southern Bantu languages
Volume: 0
Pages: 257-331
DOI
Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
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