An Analysis of Spectral Information in Japanese Accent

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23720212
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Keio University
• Principal Investigator: SUGIYAMA Yukiko 慶應義塾大学, 理工学部, 講師 (70525112)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2012
• Keywords: 日本語 / アクセント / スペクトル情報 / フォルマント / 単語韻律

Research Abstract

This research investigated whether acoustic correlates, other than F0, exist for Tokyo Japanese. Stimuli words were created by removing F0 and replacing its harmonics with white noise. Listeners' accuracy at identifying these words exceeded what was expec

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Do formant frequencies correlate with Japanese accent? (2013)
  • Author(s): Yukiko Sugiyama and Tsuyoshi Moriyama
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of Meeting on Acoustics Volume: Vol. 19
  • URL: http://scitation.aip.org/getpdf/servlet /GetPDFServlet?filetype=pdf&id=PMARCW00 0019000001060196000001&idtype=cvips&pro g=normal
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Hearing pitch despite its absence in "whispered" speech、World Wide Press Room (2011)
  • Author(s): Yukiko Sugiyama
  • Journal Title: The 162nd Acoustical Society of America Meeting
  • URL: http://www.acoustics.org/press/162nd/Su giyama 5aSCb.html
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Should the use of the particle to be avoided as a following particle? (2011)
  • Author(s): Yukiko Sugiyama
  • Journal Title: Reports of The Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies Volume: 42 Pages: 61-73
• [Presentation] Do formant frequencies correlate with Japanese accent? (2013)
  • Author(s): Yukiko Sugiyama
  • Organizer: 21st International Congress on Acoustics/ 165th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Place of Presentation: モントリオール、 パラデコングレ(カナダ)
  • Year and Date: 2013-06-06
• [Presentation] 擬似的なささやきごえにおける、アクセント最小対の聞き取り (2012)
  • Author(s): 杉山由希子
  • Organizer: 東京音声研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 早稲田大学
  • Year and Date: 2012-07-14
• [Presentation] 日本語ピッチアクセントの2次的な手がかりを求めて (2012)
  • Author(s): 杉山由希子
  • Organizer: 第325回日本音声学会研究例会
  • Place of Presentation: 早稲田大学
  • Year and Date: 2012-06-09
• [Presentation] Perceiving pitch accent in the absence of F0 (2012)
  • Author(s): Yukiko Sugiyama
  • Organizer: 38th Annual Meeting of Berkeley Linguistic Society
  • Place of Presentation: カリフォルニア大学バークレー校(アメリカ合衆国)
  • Year and Date: 2012-02-11
• [Presentation] The perception of Japanese pitch accent in "whispered" speech (2011)
  • Author(s): Yukiko Sugiyama
  • Organizer: 162th Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Place of Presentation: サンディエゴ、タウン&カントリーホテル(アメリカ合衆国)
  • Year and Date: 2011-11-04
• [Book] The Production and Perception of Japanese Pitch Accent (2012)
  • Author(s): Yukiko Sugiyama
  • Total Pages: 123
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing