study of "akusento ruibetsu-goi" (words of the Kindaichi tonal classes) from the perspective of the present-day dialects

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520505
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese linguistics
• Research Institution: Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: NAKAI Yukihiko 神戸市外国語大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (10221441)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 類別語彙 / アクセント / 中央式 / 方言辞典 / 馴染み度 / 頻度

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This is a study of "akusento ruibetsu-goi" (words of the Kindaichi tonal classes) from the perspective of the present-day Keihan-type (Central-type) accents. "Akusento ruibetsu-goi" is essential to the historical and dialectal study of the Japanese accent. Correspondence of accent forms among dialects, degree of familiarity and frequency in various corpora of each word of the Kindaichi tonal classes were investigated. In order to include patois into the words of the Kindaichi tonal classes, description of accent in dialect dictionaries of the dialects whose accent is Keihan-type was examined. Views of accent ("level" or "non-level") of the authors of various accent data were also studied.

Free Research Field

日本語学