2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An acoustic phonetic study on the intonation of the south-east-asian languages and Japanese
| Project/Area Number |
23520457
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
MASUKO Yukie 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究院, 教授 (00212209)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
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)
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)
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)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 音声学 / イントネーション / 東南アジア / 声調 / 強調 / 軽声化 |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of this research is to investigate how emphasis is expressed by means of intonation in languages of different types; that is, tone languages, a pitch accent language, and a stress accent language. Examination of acoustic phonetic data has demonstrated that whereas the accent languages employ intonation to express the emphasis, the tone languages do not. Furthermore, the pitch pattern of the combined words in utterance should not be regarded as mere coarticulative adjustment, but as a dynamic pattern assigned to each combination of tonal units that forms a morphosyntactic unit.
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