Recording Endangered Traditional Dialects in Large Cities and Building Electronic Databases

本研究的目的是：(1)记录最老一代人所说的传统东京和大阪方言的对话数据；(2)将其汇编为语言学研究的数据库；(3)从语法和社会语言学的角度对这些数据进行分析。结果如下：(1)将最老一代人所说的东京和大阪方言的对话记录在磁带上。(2)根据记录的未被转录的数据和未被机器可读的文本(包括尚未出版的数据)来编写机器可读文本。将机器可读的标准日语文本及其译文编制成数据库。(Iii)该数据库被应用于语言学研究，特别是东京和大阪方言中的语法词(如焦点助词、假设连接词、因果连接词)的研究。(Iv)说明数据库是如何建立的手册和使用该数据库的案例研究已经出版。

The aims of this study are (i)to record dialogue data of the traditional Tokyo and Osaka dialects spoken by people of the oldest generation, (ii)to compile them as a database for linguistic research, and (iii)to analyze the data from the grammatical and sociolinguistic point of view.The results are summarized as follows;(i)Dialogues in Tokyo and Osaka dialects spoken by people of the oldest generation were recorded on tape.(ii)Machine-readable texts were prepared based on the recorded data which had not been transcribed and the transcribed one which had not been machine-readable, including ones which had not been published. The machine-readable texts and their translations in standard Japanese are compiled as a database.(iii)The database was applied to linguistic research, especially the study of grammatical words (e.g., focus particles, hypothetical connectives, causal connectives) in Tokyo and Osaka dialects.(iv)The manual which explains how the database was made and the case studies using the database were published.