2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Speech data sharing through international expansion of "Funny Talk contest"

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Project/Area Number	15K12885
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Japanese linguistics
Research Institution	Kyoto University (2017-2018) Kobe University (2015-2016)
Principal Investigator	Sadanobu Toshiyuki 京都大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (50235305)
Research Collaborator	ARAI jun BEKEŠ andrej DAIKUHARA hayato HAGIWARA junko HATANO hiroaki HAYASHI ryoko HIGGINS anthony IWAMOTO kazuko KAMADA osamu KANEDA junpei KUNIMURA chiyo LUO miliang LUO xi MENG lan MORI yoko MOUTON ghislain NISHINA yoko OKUMURA tomoe OTOTAKE kaori POURIK irina SAEGUSA reiko SAKURAI naoko SENUMA fumiaki SHIMAZU momoyo SHOCHI takaaki SHUKURI yukiko TATEOKA kumi VAAGE gøran YAMAGUCHI haruhiko YAMAKAWA aya YAMAMOTO yoshino
Project Period (FY)	2015-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Keywords	面白さ / スキル / オラリティ / コーパス / 話しことば / 日本語 / データ共有化 / 話芸
Outline of Final Research Achievements	We showed concretely how we can deepen and share internationally our understanding of speech communication by using our new Japanese coorpus, the "My Funny Talk" corpus (Watashino Chotto Omoshiroi hanashi in Japanese, hereafter MFT). MFT is a collection of talks, all lasting only a few minutes in length, that were entered in a funny spoken-story tournament, held annually. It is useful as research material for variation in Japanese speech and for modern Japanese folk storyteller's art, and also as educational material on "live" Japanese speech for Japanese learners and their teachers. MFT abounds in speech variations scarecely addressed in hundreds of hours of standard spoken-language corpora. By using this corpus as a complement to previous corpora, we are better able to address actual variation of pitch and phonation for example in Japanese speech.
Free Research Field	話しことばを中心とした言語学
Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements	日本語の発話について、これまで知られていたことが実は必ずしも正しくないということが、このプロジェクトで開発されたコーパスを基に、明らかにされてきている。このコーパスはインターネット上で世界に向けて無償で公開されているので、今後、このコーパスを用いた同様の研究が世界じゅうで可能になる。これまでは「面白い話」というと、せいぜいが落語や講談のような、伝統芸術のプロの話芸しか光を当てられてこなかったが、本プロジェクトでは、日常生活の中の一般人の「面白い話」に注目することが学問的に重要であるということを、具体的に示した。