2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Comparative study on suprasegmental characteristics among East and Southeast Asian languages
| Project/Area Number |
23300093
|
|---|
| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
|
| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
|---|
| Section | 一般 |
|---|
| Research Field |
Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
|
|---|
| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
|---|
Principal Investigator |
SATO Hirokazu 東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 研究員 (50401550)
|
|---|
| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MINEGISHI Makoto 東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 教授 (20183965)
MASUKO Yukie 東京外国語大学, 大学院・総合国際学研究院, 教授 (00212209)
FURIHATA Masashi 東京外国語大学, 大学院・総合国際学研究院, 准教授 (40323729)
OKANO Kenji 東京外国語大学, 大学院・総合国際学研究院, 准教授 (60376829)
KASUGA Atsushi 神田外語大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (80364925)
|
|---|
| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-01 – 2014-03-31
|
| Keywords | 言語情報学 / 音声学 / 超分節素 / 声調 / アクセント / 言語類型論 |
|---|
| Research Abstract |
Two software tools were developed for researches on suprasegmentals of spoken languages. One is the multi-language annotation tool for co-occurrence or context analysis based on different language tags including suprasegmental ones. The other is the prosodic control tool for synthesized speech by editing pitch contours and phoneme durations, and for auditory experiments using the synthesized speeches.
Acoustic and phonetic analyses of tone languages such as Thai and Burmese clarify that static tone patterns are not fixed independently on syllable concatenations, and anticipatory adjustments or fused characteristics are often observed in connected utterances. The viewpoints of dynamic characteristics throughout the utterance are, therefore, clearly essential in the description of suprasegmentals.
|
