EXTRACTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE RHYTHMIC COMPONENTS OF JAPANESE AND OTHER LANGUAGES AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE TEACHING OF JAPANESE SPOKEN LANGUAGE

本课题的目的是对日语和其他语言的韵律进行提取和分析，并描述其声学特征，从而开发出帮助日语学习者掌握日语韵律的程序，希望通过对TEMAX的修改，开发出一种能分解各种语言韵律成分的教学工具（KS的克里思评估和测量算法），其自动提取话语的语速。我们成功地找到了日本语、朝鲜语、法语、西班牙语、汉语和其他语言。每种语言的韵律都是复杂的，具有多层成分，它们彼此重叠。我们开发了一个在PC上显示韵律成分的程序，但它需要修改才能用作语言教学工具。

THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO EXTRACT AND ANALYZE THE RHYTHM OF JAPANESE AND OTHER LANGUAGES AND TO DESCRIBE THEIR ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTICS SO THAT WE CAN DEVELOP PROGRAMS TO ASSIST LEARNERS OF JAPANESE ACQUIRE THE RHYTHM OF JAPANESE.WE HOPED TO DEVELOP EDUCATIONAL TOOL WHICH DESPLAYS RHYTHMIC COMPONENTS OF VARIOUS LANGUAGES BY MODIFYING TEMAX (TEMPO EVALUATION AND MEASUREMENT ALGORITHM BY KS) WHICH AUTOMATICALLY EXTRACTS SPEACH RATES OF UTTERANCES.WE ARE SUCCESSFUL IN FINDING CHARACTERISTIC RHYTHMIC PATTERNS AND COMPONENTS OF JAPANESE, KOREAN, FRENCH, SPANISH, CHINESE, AND OTHER LANGUAGES.THE RHYTHMS OF EACH LANGUAGE ARE COMPLEX WITH MALTI-LAYERED COMPONENTS AND THEY DIFFER FROM EACH OTHER.WE DEVELOPED A PROGRAM TO SHOW RHYTHMIC COMPONENTS ON PC BUT IT NEEDS TO BE REVISED TO BE USED AS LANGUAGE TEACHING TOOL.