Devoicing and its Environments in Perception: Kinki Japanese, or Tokyo?
Devoicing and its Environments in Perception: Kinki Japanese, or Tokyo?
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清音及其感知环境:近畿日语还是东京?
DOI:
10.3765/bls.v30i1.934
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发表时间:
2004
影响因子:
24.8
通讯作者:
Midori Y. Morris
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作者:
Midori Y. Morris
0. Introduction Vowel devoicing in the Tokyo dialect is a common topic in Japanese phonology. The most general description of vowel devoicing is the one found in, e.g., Vance (1987) and Tsujimura (1996). That is, the high vowels /i/ and /u/ are devoiced between voiceless consonants and between a voiceless consonant and a pause. For example, /i/ and /u/ in /kikan/, /kukan/, and /hon desu/ are devoiced (italicized). Studies of different aspects of vowel devoicing in the Tokyo dialect have been extensively reported. Vowel devoicing in non-Tokyo dialects, like the Kinki dialect, which is spoken in the Kyoto-Osaka area, has also been studied, but not as fully as the Tokyo dialect, and studies on the perception of devoicing are even rarer. Some sociolinguistic studies have reported that people can detect language varieties based on his or her speech, and that their judgments can be affected by social information. In the case of vowel devoicing in Japanese, the results of perception experiments may not be predictable because of the allophonic status and the gap between the general belief about devoicing and actual devoicing in the Kinki dialect. I conducted a perception experiment to examine how Tokyo and Kinki people judge a speaker as a local or a non-local person for them based on his or her devoicing variation and pitch accent patterns. The results show that both Tokyo and Kinki people tended to make judgments based on devoicing variation as well as on pitch accent, but the tendency of Kinki people to make use of devoicing variation is weaker. People also seem to use more covert knowledge of phonological factors in devoicing in production, and made judgements on that rather than audible pronunciation.
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发表时间:
2007
期刊:
神戸言語学論業 5
影响因子:
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作者:
Kishimoto;Hideki
通讯作者:
Hideki