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

2022年是粒子(POP)韵律项目的第三个年头。没有对日语和斯瓦希里语进行新的数据收集，但由于放宽了与大流行病有关的旅行限制，在实地收集了两次数据。2022年12月和2023年3月，在Thoyandou收集了高调和低调语境中变化的信息。分析了日语DP结构中一个名词被两个重音不同的形容词修饰的数据，揭示了名词和形容词的词汇重音与焦点韵律的相互作用。在有重音和无重音的单词中，焦点韵律优先于词汇重音。我们还研究了一种语音风格的行为艺术的韵律(rakugo与非rakugo)，这表明rakugo语音的韵律模式如何偏离个人正常的语音表现。尤其是Rakugo语体产生的元音使用了更大的声学空间。对于斯瓦希里语，研究了陈述句和疑问句中强调词tu的韵律性质。在这两种句型中，都要保持突出的地位。除了会议报告外，还会撰写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.