2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study on Classification of Boundary Pitch Movement and Function in Spontaneous Japanese Speech
| Project/Area Number |
22720166
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Tokai University |
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Principal Investigator |
TAGASHIRA Miki 東海大学, 外国語教育センター, 講師 (50408019)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2011
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| Keywords | 日本語 / 韻律構造 / 意味機能 / 句末音調 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research has been carried out for two years in order to examine the relationship between boundary pitch movements and discourse functions in spontaneous Japanese speech using the corpus. Regarding the conjunctive particle,/ga/, the results showed the following trends :(1) a rising tone relates to the introduction of a new topic, and(2) a rising-falling tone relates to the contradiction to a previous statement. However, these trends are not an indication that a specific function is strongly connected to one boundary pitch movement ; rather, they show that functions can be loosely associated with each boundary pitch movement in speech.
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