2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A contrastive study of tonal demarcation of prosodic boundaries in Japanese and Indian dialects : a provisional accumulation of prosodic labeling data
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21520411
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Kumamoto University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 音韻論 / 韻律音韻論 / 二型アクセント / 無アクセント |
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| Research Abstract |
Spontaneous speech corpora of Kyushu dialects of Japanese and of coastal dialects of a few Indian languages are analysed with a special focus on the tonal markers of prosodic boundaries. Prosodic systems of these dialects can be broadly termed as word tones in which tonal melodies, or a single melody, realize on a span of syllable sequence without a fixed accentual locus specified on the segment tier.
Reconstruction of prosodic changes through comparative method has been attempted for Kyushu dialects, which are shown to have retained the presumably original nature of proto-Japanese as word tones, without acquring the pitch accent as attested in later Honshu dialects of Japanese.
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