Study of the construction of the digital graphics database using shoten materials in Kamakura Period-Muromachi Period Sino-Japanese words

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24720213
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Japanese linguistics
• Research Institution: Tohoku Bunkyo Junior College
• Principal Investigator: KATO Daikaku 東北文教大学短期大学部, その他部局等, 准教授 (20318728)
• Research Collaborator: YODA Taira
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 声点 / データベース / 漢語アクセント

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This paper is about the production of the digital graphics database (hereafter DB), using materials of shoten (tone-marks) in Kamakura Period-Muromachi Period Sino-Japanese words, with the purpose of furthering historical research into jion tones (Japanese pronunciation of kanji based on adopted Chinese pronunciation). The vital process of acknowledging jion tones should be through objective observation of the physical location of tone marks, however, too often the actual procedure has been left to individual researchers’ subjective observation. The DB contains graphics of Chinese characters with tone marks and graphics with context using layered transparent text, and research results are displayed together with other relevant information based on 9th-11th century Chinese rhyme dictionaries such as "Guang-yun". Therefore it allows us to present acknowledgement of jion tones in a verifiable manner.

Free Research Field

漢語アクセントの史的研究