Inventory of sentence-final intonation in Tokyo Japanese : A revisited study

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  • 日本語の文末イントネーションの種類と名称の再検討
  • ニホンゴ　ノ　ブンマツ　イントネーション　ノ　シュルイ　ト　メイショウ　ノ　サイケントウ

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In previous papers, the author proposed that at a phonetic level, Tokyo Japanese has five types of sentence-final intonation: interrogative rise（ continuous rise）, emphatic rise（ step rise）, rise-fall, high fall and neutral. This study reanalyzed the inventory problem from a phonological point of view and showed that the interrogative rise, emphatic rise, rise-fall and neutral intonations are phonologically distinct because they are not interchangeable without a change in communicative intent. The phonological status of high fall, as in the do in Naruhodo!（L.H.H.HF: Oh, I see）, was evaluated through a series of listening experiments using resynthesized speech. The results of the experiments suggested that the high fall intonation is a variant of rise-fall. A sixth type of sentence-final intonation, flat, an alternant of emphatic rise, was found during the reanalysis.

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  • 言語文化研究

    言語文化研究 41 85-107, 2015-03-31

    Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University

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