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1995 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Construction of diagnosis system and training system for production of Japanese speech sounds conveying emotions and attitudes

Research Project

Project/Area Number 05451157
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Japanese language education
Research InstitutionHIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

HOSODA Kazumasa  Hiroshima Univ., Fac.of Education, Prof., 教育学部, 教授 (30032759)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) MACHI Hiromitsu  Hiroshima Univ., Fac.of Education, Assoc.Prof., 教育学部, 助教授 (10116668)
IMADA Shigeko  Hiroshima Univ., Fac.of Education, Prof., 教育学部, 教授 (70052248)
FUKADA Shozo  Hiroshima Univ., Fac.of Education, Lect., 教育学部, 講師 (50228863)
MIZUMACHI Isao  Hiroshima Univ., Fac.of Education, Prof., 教育学部, 教授 (50056199)
Project Period (FY) 1993 – 1995
KeywordsTeaching of Japanese sounds / Utterance Intentions / Emotional Expressions in speech / Speech synthesis / Hiroshima dialect / Kansei Engeneering / Fuzzy measure / Integral model
Research Abstract

The present research includes developments of "diagnosis model" and "training model" with emphasis on intention, emotion and attitude conveyed in utterances. Our findings are as follows.
1.Analysis of synthetic speech showed that amplitude was important for joy and sadness while fundamental frequency was for anger and fear.
2.Incredulous questions of one-word are different from simple questions and neutral utterances in terms of duration, F0 and amplitude.
3.One-word production training with visual feedback method was applied to learners of Japanese and some considerations were made for practical teaching.
4.CAI courseware was made open to the public on WWW,internet.
5.Binnan speakers learning Japanese were found to have difficulty (1) producing the difference between surprise and suspicion and (2) understanding neutral utterances.
6.Hiroshima dialect was acoustically compared with standard Japanese resulting in the finding that "rising tone" in Hiroshima dialect was a factor contributing to the perceptual difference between them.
7.CAI course was produced for Japanese learners to practice geminated stops.
8.Computer-aided diagnosis system for Japanese (WIDIAS ; Word Image Diagnosis Kansei Engineering System) was constructed using Kansei Engineering and Fuzzy measure/Integral Model. This system is able to represent human like evaluation of word feeling through the intellinegnt reasoning system of the model.

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All Publications (6 results)

  • [Publications] 水田直美: "「ハイ」の感情的意味の認知における基本周波数と強度の効果" 広島大学教育学部紀要 第二部. 42. 261-266 (1993)

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  • [Publications] 町博光・今田滋子・山中康子・松島弘枝: "広島方言の韻律の聴覚的・音響的研究〜単語レベルと文節レベルの比較を中心に〜" 広島大学日本語教育学会紀要 第5号. 21-31 (1995)

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  • [Publications] 西端千香子・浅田健太郎・篠崎大司・徐愛紅・夛田美有紀・細田和雅: "『ア』と『エ』で表出される感情の韻律的特徴" 広島大学日本語教育学科紀要 第6号. 63-72 (1994)

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  • [Publications] MIZUTA,Naomi: "Effect of Fundamental Frequency and Amplitude on Recognition of Emotion in "Hai"" Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Hiroshima Univ.(1993)

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  • [Publications] MACHI,Hiromitsu, IMADA,Sigeko, YAMANAKA,Yasuko, MATSUSHIMA,Hiroe: "A Prosodic Analysis of Hiroshima Japanese-Auditory and Acoustic Observations on Words and Pharases-" Nihongo Kyoikugakka Kiyo. (1995)

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  • [Publications] NISHIBATA,Chikako, ASADA,Kentaro, SHINOZAKI,Daishi, XU Ai-hong, TADA,Miyuki, HOSODA,Kazumasa: "Prosodic Features of Japanese a and e Sounds Conveyed by Affective Meanings of Joy, Surprise, Discouragement, and Suspicion" Nihongo Kyoikugakka Kiyo. (1996)

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