An investigation of vowel devoicing and prosodic structure in Japanese

日语元音清音与韵律结构研究

• 批准号: 23720239
• 负责人: HIRAYAMA Manami
• 金额: $ 1.75万
• 依托单位: Ritsumeikan University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2011 至 2013
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-23720239/
• 关键词: 母音の無声化; プロソディー; 韻律; アクセント; 知覚; 形態論; フット; 日本語; 対立; 韻律構造

In this project, I investigated vowel devoicing, a well-studied phonological feature of Japanese, focusing on its interaction with prosodic structure, a relatively unexplored area in the literature. The following two findings comprise the main contribution of my project.First, I conducted a perception experiment to test whether Japanese speakers can hear accent contrasts between words involving accents on devoiced vowels. I found that although participants could hear the contrasts fairly well overall, one contrast type was harder to detect than others, suggesting a bias in perception toward certain accent patterns.Second, I carried out a dictionary survey and production experiment to discover whether vowel devoicing would be affected by morphological information such as word-internal boundaries, as claimed in the literature. The results suggest that it is not the morphology but rather phonology, specifically prosodic information, that affects vowel devoicing in Japanese.

在这个项目中，我调查了元音清化，一个很好的研究语音学特征的日语，侧重于其与韵律结构，一个相对未开发的领域在文献中的相互作用。以下两个发现构成了我的项目的主要贡献。首先，我进行了一个感知实验，以测试日语使用者是否能听到包含清音元音的重音的单词之间的重音对比。我发现，虽然参与者可以听到的对比相当不错的整体，一个对比类型比其他人更难检测，这表明在知觉偏向某些口音patterns.Second，我进行了字典调查和生产实验，以发现是否元音清化会受到影响的形态信息，如词的内部边界，在文献中声称。结果表明，这不是形态，而是语音，特别是韵律信息，影响元音清化在日本。

项目成果

Testing the effect of morphological boundaries in vowel devoicing in Japanese: A preliminary study

测试日语元音消音中形态边界的影响：初步研究

• 作者: Makoto Sumiyoshi;Manami Hirayama
• 通讯作者: Manami Hirayama

Testing the visibility of morphology in postlexical phonology: Evidence from vowel devoicing in Japanese

测试词后音韵学中形态的可见性：来自日语元音消音的证据

• 作者: Hirayama;Manami and Mikio Giriko;Ryo Otoguro;住吉 誠;Manami Hirayama
• 通讯作者: Manami Hirayama

Effects of morphological boundaries in vowel devoicing in Japanese

形态边界对日语元音消音的影响

• 作者: Makoto Sumiyoshi;Manami Hirayama;Makoto Sumiyoshi他;Ryo Otoguro;Manami Hirayama
• 通讯作者: Manami Hirayama

Current Issues in Japanese Phonology : Segmental Variation in Japanese (Jeroen van de Weijer and Tetsuo Nishihara 編) (論文名:Vowel Devoicing in Japanese and Postlexical Alterability of Syllable Structure)

日语音韵学的当前问题：日语的音段变异（由 Jeroen van de Weijer 和 Tetsuo Nishihara 编辑）（论文标题：日语中的元音消音和音节结构的词后可变性）

• 发表时间: 2013
• 作者: Hirayama;Manami
• 通讯作者: Manami

A preliminary study on morphological effects in high vowel devoicing in Japanese

日语高元音消音的形态效应初探

• 发表时间: 2013
• 作者: Hirayama;Manami
• 通讯作者: Manami