Clarifying the occurrence factors of question prosody under the dynamic interaction of conversations.

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25884099
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
• Principal Investigator: HATANO HIROAKI 株式会社国際電気通信基礎技術研究所, その他部局等, 研究員 (10709364)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-08-30 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: イントネーション / 質問 / 自然対話 / 音声コミュニケーション / 対人関係

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Although there are many studies about the prosody of questions, only a few deal with quantitative analysis using natural conversations. Therefore, it is unclear what factors affect the prosody of questions in daily natural communication. This research aimed to clarify this problem. We investigated the prosody of questions in natural conversations under several factors. We found that the prosody of questions is affected by not only the "degree of information request" and the "presence of sentence final particle", but also by the "attitude of the speaker" and the "relationships between speakers".

Free Research Field

日本語音声学