2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Descriptive Study of Mukawa Dialect of Ainu using Recorded Materials
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23320080
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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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 | Chiba University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKAGAWA Hiroshi 千葉大学, 人文社会科学研究科(系), 教授 (50172276)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HONDA Yuko 札幌大学, 文化学部, 教授 (30405625)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 危機・少数言語 / 記述的研究 / 音声資料 / 辞書 |
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| Research Abstract |
We analyzed 120-minute 66 cassette tapes (the total of the length is about 150 hours) of the Mukawa dialect of Ainu recorded by late Mr. Tatsumine Katayama. We picked up 6500 items from the data and made a Japanese-Ainu dictionary with sound data on a website, which is the first Ainu dictionary on the net. Also we made descriptive studies on the data phonetically, phonologically, syntactically and lexically, making clear the features of Mukawa dialect. As a result, we found that the likeliness between Mukawa and Saru dialects, which has been so regarded, is limited on the morphologic-syntactic level and that Mukawa dialect has more complicating relations with surrounding Saru, Horobetsu, Chitowse dialects lexically.
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