2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Cross-dialectal study of a prosodic strategy of segmentation of fluent speech in Japanese
| Project/Area Number |
22720178
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Japanese linguistics
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Gakugei University |
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Principal Investigator |
SHIROSE Ayako 東京学芸大学, 教育学部, 講師 (00391988)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 日本語 / 音声言語 / 韻律的特徴 / 単語分節 / 方言比較 |
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| Research Abstract |
In order to clarify a segmentation strategy of fluent speech in Japanese, this study investigated cross-dialectally how prosodic aspects of Japanese were involved in segmenting speech. Test words were pairs sharing same phone strings, whereas their morpheme boundaries differed (cf.SIN-SYAKAI 'new society' and SINSYA-KAI 'exhibition of new automobiles'). Results showed that the boundary lengthening was found in speakers of Japanese dialect lacking of discriminability of accent contrasts. The strategy of segmentation of speech was discussed by comparing among Japanese dialects.
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