2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Prosodic variation and language change observed in three regional dialects of Japanese

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21320076
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Linguistics
Research Institution	Kagoshima University
Principal Investigator	OTA Ichiro 鹿児島大学, 法文学部, 教授 (60203783)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	TAKANO Shoji 北星学園大学, 文学部, 教授 (00285503) NIKAIDO Hitoshi 福岡女子学院大学, 人文学部, 教授 (60221470) ASAHI Yoshiyuki 大学共同利用機関法人人間文化機構国立国語研究所, 時空間変異研究系, 准教授 (50392543)
Research Collaborator	UTSUGI Akira 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 助教
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	社会言語学 / 言語変異 / 音調の変異 / 社会音声学 / 方言 / 日本語
Research Abstract	This study aimed to argue a possibility of language change that seemed to be taking place at the prosody level in regional dialects of Japanese by investigating variation of F0 movement in multiple accentual phrase(MAP). The results showed that (1) the younger generation in Sapporo and Fukuoka used narrower F0 range than the older counter part, (2) gender seemed the key factor for this variation in Kagoshima, and (3) stylistic difference was not statistically confirmed.

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