Phrase Final Tones of Question Utterances Appearing in Japanese Natural Conversations

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  • Hatano Hiroaki
    Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories
  • Ishi Toshinori Carlos
    Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories

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  • 日本語自然対話に現れる質問発話の句末音調
  • ニホンゴ シゼン タイワ ニ アラワレル シツモン ハツワ ノ クマツ オンチョウ

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<p>The aim of this paper is to clarify the relationships among the phrase final tones of questioning utterances, the pragmatic factor, and the linguistic factor. We extracted questioning utterances from 54 conversations by 25 speakers and classified them according to the degree of information request and the sentence final particles. Tones were classified into the five tones based on its acoustic features. The main findings of the study are shown as below. The relationships between the rising tone and the pragmatic factor are coordinating. The relationships between the rising tone and the linguistic factor are complementary.</p>

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  • CRID
    1390282679763045888
  • NII Article ID
    130006075996
  • NII Book ID
    AA11148803
  • DOI
    10.24467/onseikenkyu.21.1_1
  • ISSN
    21895961
    13428675
  • NDL BIB ID
    028470904
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • NDL
    • CiNii Articles
    • KAKEN
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