2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Towards Typicality of German Intonation - A Comparison with Experienced Japanese Speaker of German
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24520422
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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 | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
RUDE MARKUS 名古屋大学, 教養教育院, 准教授 (90282342)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | ドイツ語 / イントネーション / 典型性 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study aimed at finding out typical intonation shapes of German. 20 native speakers of German read texts from a German textbook and their reading was recorded. 5 sentences were chosen for pitch analysis and many of the pitch contours proved to be similar. The numbers of the speakers who read in a similar intonation were: 13 for sentence (1), 10 for the first half of sentence (2) (the second half was read by 5 speakers in a similar, and also by 5 speakers in another similar intonation), 14 for sentence (3), 12 for (4), and 12 for the beginning, 8 for the middle, and 18 for the end of (5). In all sentences, a falling accent was found in the nuclear position, and in prenuclear positions, a rising accent appeared frequently. The hypothesis seems now to be justifiable that similar intonation shapes are realized in the utterances of native speakers of German.
In contrast, only 3 of 12 japanese speakers of German showed a similar intonation for sentence (1).
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| Free Research Field |
音声学
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