Study of Language Variation using <i>Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese</i>(<Feature Articles>Variation of Speech)

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  • MAEKAWA Kikuo
    Section Two, Department of Language Research, National Institute for Japanese Language

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  • 『日本語話し言葉コーパス』を用いた言語変異研究(<特集>音声のバリエーション)
  • 『日本語話し言葉コーパス』を用いた言語変異研究
  • ニホンゴ ハナシコトバ コーパス オ モチイタ ゲンゴ ヘンイ ケンキュウ

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Abstract

Large-scale corpus of spontaneous speech can be an excellent resource for the study of language variations. This philosophy was reflected in the architecture of the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese, or CSJ, that we have been compiling since 1999. In the first half of the paper, various characteristics of the CSJ were described in view of its application for the study of language variations. In the last half of the paper, the word-fusion of "de+wa" into "zya" was analyzed using the CSJ. It turned out that the main factor of the word fusion involved part-of-speech of "de" (either particle of auxiliary verb), type of speech (academic presentation or public speech), the degree of speaker's relaxedness, as measured by the frequency of laughter, and the interaction between the speech type and the frequency of laughter. The analyses of the interaction term suggested that low-frequency variations could be better perceptual cues of style shifting than high-frequency variations.

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  • CRID
    1390001204786936064
  • NII Article ID
    110008762249
  • NII Book ID
    AA11148803
  • DOI
    10.24467/onseikenkyu.6.3_48
  • ISSN
    21895961
    13428675
  • NDL BIB ID
    6433359
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • NDL
    • CiNii Articles
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