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2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A contrastive study on speech disfluencies in English and Japanese

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 21520467
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Japanese linguistics
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

WATANABE Michiko  東京大学, 大学院・新領域創成科学研究科, 特任研究員 (60470027)

Project Period (FY) 2009 – 2011
Keywords音声 / 音韻
Research Abstract

When speakers have troubles continuing their speeches, they hesitate. Fillers such as "eeto" are commonly uttered in Japanese. I investigated factors affecting the occurrence of fillers at phrase boundaries and found that the larger the distance between modifying phrases and the heads, the higher the filler rates immediately after the modifying phrases. The results indicate that the more complex the following messages that speakers want to convey, the harder it becomes to encode the message into speech, and the more likely speakers are to use fillers. The results show the regularity of the occurrence of filled pauses, which seem to appear at random at a glance.

  • Research Products

    (10 results)

All 2012 2010 2009 Other

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (7 results) Book (1 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] 音声コミュニケーションにおける非流暢性の機能2009

    • Author(s)
      伝康晴・渡辺美知子
    • Journal Title

      音声研究

      Volume: 13巻1号 Pages: 53-64

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] 『日本語話し言葉コーパス』における文節境界のフィラーの出現率2012

    • Author(s)
      渡辺美知子・清水信哉
    • Organizer
      第1回コーパス日本語学ワークショップ予稿集
    • Place of Presentation
      国立国語研究所
    • Year and Date
      2012-03-06
  • [Presentation] Utterance initial elements in Japanese : a comparison among fillers, conjunctions, and topic phrases2010

    • Author(s)
      Watanabe, M. & Den, Y.
    • Organizer
      DiSS-LPSS Joint Workshop 2010 : The 5th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech & The 2nd International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech, peer reviewed, Proc
    • Place of Presentation
      Univ. Tokyo, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2010-09-25
  • [Presentation] Development of a CALL system using speech recognition technology and itsuse for prosody learning2010

    • Author(s)
      Watanabe, M. & Matsuda, T.
    • Organizer
      International Conference on Japanese Language Education(ICJLE), peer reviewed, Proc
    • Place of Presentation
      National Cheng-chi Univ. Taipei, Taiwan
    • Year and Date
      2010-08-01
  • [Presentation] Development of a system to assist simultaneous interpretation and shadowing2010

    • Author(s)
      Watanabe, M., Tokioka, Y., & Hirose, K.
    • Organizer
      INTERSPEECH 2010 Satellite Workshop on "Second Language Studies : Acquisition, Learning, Education and Technology," peer reviewed
    • Place of Presentation
      Waseda Univ. Tokyo, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2010-07-22
  • [Presentation] フィラー使用頻度パターンによる講演タイプの分類2009

    • Author(s)
      渡辺美知子・伝康晴・広瀬啓吉
    • Organizer
      日本音響学会秋季研究発表会
    • Place of Presentation
      日本大学工学部,福島県郡山市
    • Year and Date
      2009-09-17
  • [Presentation] Effects of speakers' gender and age on the choice of filler types in Japanese2009

    • Author(s)
      Watanabe, M.
    • Organizer
      Joint Conference for the Japanese Studies, Association of Australia(JSAA) and the International Conference on Japanese Language Education(ICJLE), peer reviewed, Proc
    • Place of Presentation
      Univ. New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
    • Year and Date
      2009-07-15
  • [Presentation] Features of Fillers in Presentational Speech : An Empirical Study Analysing Japanese Examples2009

    • Author(s)
      Watanabe, M.
    • Organizer
      Joint Seminar for UK-Japan Map Task Dialogue Corpus Project
    • Place of Presentation
      Waseda Univ. Tokyo, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2009-05-30
  • [Book] 「2章音声学・音韻論」近藤安月子(編著)『日本語教育事典』2012

    • Author(s)
      渡辺美知子
    • Publisher
      研究社
  • [Remarks] DiSS-LPSS Joint Workshop 2010 : The 5th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech & The 2nd International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speechホームページ

    • URL

      http://cogsci.l.chiba-u.ac.jp/diss-lpss2010/

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Published: 2013-07-31  

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