A crosslinguistic study of prosody of particles: Japanese and Bantu languages

AY2022是粒子韵律（POP）项目的第三年。没有进行新的日语和斯瓦希里语数据收集，但由于放松了与流行病有关的旅行限制，有两次在外地收集了数据。2022年12月和2023年3月，我们在Thohoyandou收集了Xitsonga数据，该数据在高音调和低音调语境中变化信息，并分析了日语DP结构（名词被两个重音不同的形容词修饰）的数据，了解了名词和形容词的词汇重音与焦点韵律的相互作用。在重音和非重音单词中，焦点韵律优先于词汇重音。我们还研究了韵律的言语风格的表演艺术（落语与非落语），这表明如何落语语音的韵律模式偏离正常的讲话由个人执行。特别是在落语语音风格中产生的元音使用更大的声学空间。对斯瓦希里语的陈述句和疑问句中的助词tu的韵律性质进行了研究。在这两种句型中，你都保持了突出地位。除了会议报告，还撰写了期刊文章来传播研究结果。

AY2022 was the third year of the prosody of the particle (POP) project. No new data collection of Japanese and Swahili was conducted, but owing to the easing of pandemic-related travel restrictions, data collection in the field was available in two occasions. In December 2022 and March 2023, Xitsonga data was collected in Thohoyandou, which varies information in high tone and low tone contexts.Japanese data on DP constructions, in which a noun was modified by two adjectives varying in accents, were analyzed, which informed us about how lexical accents of nouns and adjectives interact with focus prosody. The focus prosody takes precedence over lexical accents in both accented and unaccented words. We also examined prosody of a speech style of performance arts (Rakugo vs. non-Rakugo), which showed how prosodic patterns of Rakugo speech deviate from normal speech performed by individuals. Especially, vowels produced in Rakugo speech styles use larger acoustic space. For Swahili, the prosodic nature of the emphatic particle tu in declaratives and interrogatives were investigated. In both sentence types tu maintain the prominence.In addition to conference presentations, journal articles are being written to disseminate the findings.