A Study of Networking and Development of `Acoustic Linguistic Atlas' and 'Visual Linguistic Atlas'

到目前为止，日本各方言研究人员已经用多媒体个人电脑制作了不同的语言地图集，但将语音添加到计算机屏幕上的语言地图集在日本尚属首次。我们将这部发音为《Koe no Gengochizu》的语言地图集命名为《声学语言地图集》，在制作了《九州岛南部口语地图集》作为试点地图集后，完成了《日本西部声学语言地图集》。它共有164个项目，包括151个单词，如eda‘分支’，enpisu‘铅笔’，以及13个问候语，如Ohayou gozaimasu‘早上好’。我们走访了日本西部从富山县到鹿儿岛县的65个点，通过访谈获得了可靠的数据。用DAT或计算机记录声音，使用44 kHz的采样率，以提供高质量的语音。这两张声学地图集很快将被上传到基希的网站上；http://www.ias.tokushima-u.ac.jp/kokugo/kishie.htm.这个网站将与Nakai的网站链接。在制作声学地图集的过程中，以下几点变得清晰起来。(1)通过比较方言语音的变化过程和地理分布，可以了解到方言语音的变化和变异。(2)这本地图集显示了听力对方言研究人员的重要性。因为我们可以清楚地看到，两种听证方式是有细微差别的。例如，我们制作了输入声音数据的工作表：我们按列输入每个说话者的数据，按行输入每个项目的数据，每个说话者的数据听的结果与每个项目的数据听的结果不同，尽管我们听到的是相同的声音数据。(3)强调了向公众介绍方言声音的重要性，并提出了相应的方法。

So far various dialect researchers in Japan have produced different linguistic atlases with multimedia personal computers, however, this is the first attempt in Japan to add speech sounds to linguistic atlases on computer screens. We named this linguistic atlases with sounds ‘Koe no Gengochizu', or ‘Acoustic Linguistic Atlas'.After making ‘Speaking Linguistic Atlas of Southern Kyushu' as a pilot atlas, we accomplished ‘Acoustic Linguistic Atlas of Western part of Japan'. It consists of totally 164 items, including 151 words such as eda ‘branch', enpitsu ‘pencil', and 13 greeting expressions such as Ohayou gozaimasu ‘Good morning'. We visited 65 points of the Western Japan from Toyama prefecture to Kagoshima prefecture to get sound data by interviewing. Recording sounds with a DAT or a computer, used a sampling rate of 44 Khz in order to provide high-quality voice. These two acoustic atlases will be soon uploaded on Kishie's website ; http://www.ias.tokushima-u.ac.jp/kokugo/kishie.htm. This website will be linked with Nakai's website.In the process to make acoustic atlases, the following became clear. (1)We can learn changes and variation of dialect sound in progress, comparing the process of change with the geographic distribution. (2)This atlas shows how important hearing is for dialect researchers. Because we can make it clear that there is a slight difference between two ways of hearing. For example, we made worksheets to enter sound data : we entered each speaker's data in columns and each item's data in rows, The result of hearing along each speaker's data differed from the result of hearing along each item's data, although we heard just the same sound data. (3)We insisted on the importance to introduce dialect sounds to the public, and presented the methods.