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Frequency effects in phonetic and morphological variations in the Present-day English

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15K02588
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field English linguistics
Research InstitutionHokkaido University of Education

Principal Investigator

Fukuda Kaoru  北海道教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (50261368)

Project Period (FY) 2015-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥260,000 (Direct Cost: ¥200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥60,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥130,000 (Direct Cost: ¥100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥30,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Keywords文法化 / 変異 / 統計解析 / 用法基盤文法 / 頻度効果 / 母音短化 / 短母音化 / 複合語 / 強勢配置 / コーパス調査 / 擬似部分構造
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The current research, using Present-day English corpus investigation, showed that there are significant differences between the target item groups with respect to grammaticalization and vowel shortening phenomena under investigation. Although the observed differences could not be shown to be directly related to their frequency differences, there remains a possibility to the effect that the most highly frequent member among the items leads less frequent members to be subject to the phenomena in question, based on structural similarities between the two members. The phenomena examined here can be viewed as examples of lexical expansion via analogy, a hypothesis worth pursuing.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

言語の要素はさまざまな要因により変異や変化を示すが、現代英語においても、特定の語彙において従来の長母音が短音化する現象や、本来の名詞的意味が薄れて数量を表す表現に意味的・機能的に変化する現象が観察される。本研究では、[u:]が[u]に短母音化する要因として、当該母音を含む語の使用頻度は説得的な要因とは言えないが、高頻度語との類似性に基づく類推が作用している可能性を示唆した。動物の群を表す名詞の分量詞への機能変化に関してコーパスからデータを抽出して分析すると、変化の進展度に関して有意な差が観察された。ここでも名詞の使用頻度そのものが機能変化に直接的に関与するという証拠は得られなかった。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2018 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (15 results)

All 2018 2015 Other

All Journal Article (4 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results) Presentation (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results) Remarks (7 results)

  • [Journal Article] 英語における擬似部分構造への文法化と共時的変動~動物の群を表す語を対象に~2018

    • Author(s)
      福田 薫
    • Journal Title

      函館英文学

      Volume: 55 Pages: 15-37

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report 2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 現代英語における短母音化と頻度要因~[u:]~[u]の事例を中心に~2018

    • Author(s)
      福田 薫
    • Journal Title

      函館英文学

      Volume: 57 Pages: 15-31

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 現代英語で書かれた文学作品の文体特徴の計量(1)2018

    • Author(s)
      福田 薫
    • Journal Title

      北海道教育大学紀要人文科学・社会科学編

      Volume: 68-2 Pages: 13-22

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 現代英語における短母音化と頻度要因―[u:]~[u]の事例を中心に―2018

    • Author(s)
      福田 薫
    • Journal Title

      函館英文学

      Volume: 57 Pages: 15-31

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] N1 of N2構造と数の一致~文法化の観点から~2018

    • Author(s)
      福田 薫
    • Organizer
      函館英語英文学会
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 名詞から分量詞への文法化の程度を測る2018

    • Author(s)
      福田 薫
    • Organizer
      日本英文学会北海道支部
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Using the TOEIC Test in English education2015

    • Author(s)
      Kaoru Fukuda
    • Organizer
      The Sixth Pacific-Rim Conference on Education
    • Place of Presentation
      Burapha University, Thailand
    • Year and Date
      2015-11-18
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] N1 of N2構造と数の一致~文法化の観点から~2015

    • Author(s)
      福田 薫
    • Organizer
      函館英語英文学会
    • Place of Presentation
      函館市
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-13
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 北海道教育大学 研究者総覧

    • URL

      https://kensoran.hokkyodai.ac.jp/huehp/KgApp?kyoinId=ymkigggggyo&keyword

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 北海道教育大学函館校 福田研究室にようこそ~私の研究

    • URL

      http://www2.hak.hokkyodai.ac.jp/fukuda/research/research_index.html

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 福田研究室へようこそ

    • URL

      http://www2.hak.hokkyodai.ac.jp/fukuda

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 北海道教育大学研究者総覧

    • URL

      http://kensoran.hokkyodai.ac.jp/huehp/KaApp

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 北海道教育大学函館校教員プロフィール

    • URL

      https://www.hokkyodai.ac.jp/hak/intro/profile.html

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report 2015 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 福田研究室へようこそ

    • URL

      http://www2.hak.hokkyodai.ac.jp/fukuda/

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 北海道教育大学研究者総覧

    • URL

      http://kensoran.hokkyodai.ac.jp/huehp/KgApp

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report

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Published: 2015-04-16   Modified: 2020-03-30  

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