Accentual Variation in Standard Japanese and Its Regional Diversity Observed in the Emergence of Pitch Fall in Unaccented <i>Nagara</i> Clause: Analysis of Speech Data in the <i>Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese</i>

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  • Nasu Akio
    Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
  • Imada Mizuho
    Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
  • Kanno Michimasa
    Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba

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  • 平板ナガラ節の起伏化にみる共通語アクセントの変異と地域的多様性―『日本語話し言葉コーパス』所収発話の分析―

Abstract

<p>This study examined the regional diversity of Standard Japanese (SJ) focusing on the accentual variation in nagara-clause. The results of our analysis utilizing the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese indicated that a common principle underlies the variation in SJs spoken in the metropolitan area and its surrounding areas: the frequency of the variation, in which a pitch fall emerges anew, increases in response to the length of verbs preceding nagara. In contrast, no such correspondence is observed for SJs in the region of accentless dialects and Western Japan, but a positive preference for neutralization characterizes the latter. As for the Keihanshin area, the variation frequency is remarkably lower, suggesting that speakers refer to the rules of their native dialects in parallel with utilizing those in SJ.</p>

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  • CRID
    1390580461189940224
  • DOI
    10.24467/onseikenkyu.27.3_77
  • ISSN
    21895961
    13428675
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
  • Abstract License Flag
    Disallowed

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