A Research on Interrelations of Dialect Standardization in the Tohoku District with Social and Psycological Factors

在当今社会，方言的规范化涉及地域、年龄、社会属性、话语情境、个性等方面。为了说明这些实际情况和因素，我们以福岛县与东北地区关东方面接触的Soma地区为研究对象。具体而言，我们对郊区小田町和市区原町町的170名本地人进行了语音、口音、句法和词汇的调查。结果，我们证实了该地区在语音、词汇和句法方面的高度标准化，以及郊区和城市地区、老年人和年轻人之间的程度差异。但只有重音类型是方言。除重音类型外，标准化工作已基本完成。标准语言和方言的区别完全取决于它们使用的场合，但在正式场合，方言通常与少量的单词和语法项目一起使用。

In the present day, the standardization of dialect is involved by location, age, social properties, utterance situation, personality and so on. For explication of such actual conditions and factors, we researched on Soma area, Fukushima prefecture, which contacts with Kanto side in Tohoku district. To be concrete, we made the survey of phonology, accent, syntax and vocaburary on 170 natives in the suburban area Odaka-matchi and the urban area Haramachi-si.As a result, we confirmed the advanced standardization in the district, on phonology, vocaburary and syntax, and the difference of its degree between the suburban area and the urben area, as well as the old and the young classes. But only the accent type is dialectal. The standardization has been almost completed except in the accent type. The difference of the standard language and the daialect is completely discernible depending on the situations where they used, but in formal situations the dialect proper is often used with a small number of words and grammatical items.