A pleliminary study of calling intonation

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25580098
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: KUBOZONO HARUO 大学共同利用機関法人人間文化研究機構国立国語研究所, 理論・対照研究領域, 教授 (80153328)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 呼びかけイントネーション / アクセント / 日本語 / 鹿児島方言 / 甑島方言 / 小林方言 / プロソディー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Calling intonation is the intonation patterns used by speakers when they call someone else by his/ intonation is the intonation patterns used by speakers when they call someone else by his/her name. This study collected data based on fieldwork in several dialect areas and analyzed the observed patterns. This study has revealed the following: (i) Different dialects may use slightly different patterns from each other, (ii) more than one pattern is often observed depending on several factors such as the intimacy between the speaker and the hearer, and (iii) despite dialectal differences, the basic pattern in Japanese is a falling pitch associated with the final syllable of the names.

Free Research Field

言語学