A Study on sharewares for learning Japanese language through mulitlanguage and multiculture

到目前为止，对口语的研究主要集中在形态学上，而对副语言的研究很少，例如感叹和感叹词等发声。事实上，副语言蕴含着丰富的信息，有时在交际中起着至关重要的作用。本研究建立了一种从副语言中提取的韵律和文化特征数据库。本研究的内容是使用多语言文本文件以及声音和卡通文件，通过互联网在个人电脑上相互连接和控制，以学习韵律特征，非言语行为和文化特定语言。本研究描述了一个基于互联网的多媒体口语教学软件的开发项目。硬件是一台Macintosh，软件是PageMaker和Acrobat reader的PDF文件。文本文件都是相互关联的，并与相应的卡通和声音。文本文件是日语正字法，并在英语，韩语和汉语与文化或社会语言学解释的某些单词和表达在每种语言。

So far, research into the spoken language has concentrated on morphology and very little attention has been paid to paralanguage, for example vocalizations such as exclamations and interjections. In fact, paralanguage is rich in information and sometimes plays a crucial role in communication. This research has build up a kind of database of prosodic and cultural features extracted from paralanguage. The contents in this research use multilanguage text files together with sound and cartoon files interconnected and cotrolled using a personal computer through internet, to learn prosodic features, non verbal behabior and culturally specific language.This research discribes a project on developing a multimedia software throught internet for spoken languagae education. The hardware is a Macintosh, and the software is PDF files of PageMaker and Acrobat reader. The text files are all interconnected and to the corresponding cartoon and sound. Text files are of Japanese orthography, and in English, Korean, and Chinese with cultural or sociolinguistic explanations on certain words and exprssions in each language.