2023 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
F0 cue conflicts between tone and consonant effects
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22K00510
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| Research Institution | The University of Aizu |
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Principal Investigator |
Perkins Jeremy 会津大学, コンピュータ理工学部, 上級准教授 (30725635)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2022-04-01 – 2026-03-31
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| Keywords | tone / pitch accent / dialect variation / Japanese / Korean / phonetics |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Research results from the precursor to this kakenhi grant were presented and published at the International Congress of Phonetic Science in Prague in August 2023. This resulted in two presentations (one oral and one poster), with both papers published in the proceedings volume. This conference is the leading international conference in phonetics, held every four years and attended by the largest numbers of researchers in the field of Phonetics from any such conference in Phonetics.
Following this, recording and data collection of Fukushima & Tokyo Japanese began in mid-November, finishing in early December 2023, with 16 Tokyo Japanese speakers and 8 Fukushima Japanese speakers. A student research assistant was hired for annotation of the data, completing the work in late December 2023. A preliminary analysis of the results indicated that the Tokyo Japanese speakers produced the words with the expected standard Tokyo Japanese pitch accent patterns. However, the speakers from Fukushima prefecture produced a similar pattern to the Tokyo Japanese speakers. The intention was to collect data of an accentless dialect of Japanese though. This was not completely unexpected since these participants were students at a university and were likely to have acquired standard Japanese through media, the internet and television and are producing it in an educational environment where Tokyo Japanese may be used more often than other local places. As a result of this, a future plan is being considered to collect data from speakers who are more likely to produce accentless Japanese.
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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
The initial collection of Japanese data is complete, but some follow-up data collection is proposed since the results of the Fukushima Japanese are not as expected.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Since the Fukushima Japanese speakers' data indicates that they are not producing the accentless variety of Japanese that is seen in many areas of Fukushima Prefecture, more data is planned to be collected during the summer of 2024. In particular, I have a plan to record participants in Miyazaki prefecture, which is also known to be home to accentless Japanese speakers. This plan will be facilitated by connections with my colleague, Professor Seunghun Lee, who is planning to collect linguistic data in Miyazaki prefecture during the summer of 2024. We will construct a similar word list and collect this data. In addition, the original plan to collect data from two dialects of Korean (Seoul Korean & Northern Kyungsang Korean) is also being planned through my network that includes Professor Lee and his colleagues in Korea. I plan to create a similar word list in Korean and then recruit and pay graduate students as experiment facilitators in Korea. These facilitators will then recruit participants in Korea as originally proposed at some point in the late summer or early autumn.
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| Causes of Carryover |
The data annotation was completed in fewer hours than expected (a single skilled annotator was more efficient than in past experience). Otherwise, the initial one-year delay in these plans due to the pandemic resulted in the budget being executed one year later than expected. This is the main reason for leftover funds being carried forward now.
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