Varieties of pitch accent systems in Japanese

Kubozono, Haruo

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2012.08.001

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“…The interviewer was a non-native speaker of Japanese with a high-level of proficiency, and subjects were 10 native speakers of Japanese aged 31-45 (5 male, 5 female). The age of subjects was kept below 50 in order to minimize any potential influence of the effects of age on f0 [11], and all subjects were speakers of the Tokyo dialect of Japanese (born and raised in the Tokyo area up to age 18) in order to reduce any possible effects on f0 from different dialects [12]. Interviews were conducted in a lounge setting rather than a recording booth or lab in order to encourage a more natural, conversational style of speech.…”

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Acoustic Properties of Formality in Conversational Japanese

Sherr-Ziarko

2016

Interspeech 2016

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This paper examines potential acoustic cues for level of formality in Japanese conversational speech using speech data gathered outside the laboratory, with the objective of using any significant cues to develop a model to predict level of formality in spoken Japanese. Based on previous work on the phonetic properties of formality in Japanese [1],[2] and other languages [3], and on a pilot study of informal geminate contractions in Japanese (section 2), the study examined the mean f0, articulation rate, and f0 range (the difference between the minimum and maximum f0 in an utterance) via direct examination of the data and a functional data analysis [4], [5].Analysis of the speech data shows significant relationships between all three variables and level of formality, and a binary logistic regression indicates that the variables have some potential as predictors of formality independent of lexical cues, although further refinement of any model will be necessary.In order to obtain appropriate conversational Japanese speech data to analyze, the decision was made to create a new small corpus. Although other corpora of spoken Japanese exist, notably the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese [9] and the Chiba 3-way conversation corpus [10], they were judged to be

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Acoustic Properties of Formality in Conversational Japanese

Sherr-Ziarko

2016

Interspeech 2016

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“…Furthermore, for the second-syllable accented words, while the percentage of errors shi ing to the non-accent and the rst-syllable accent was similar (nearly 50%) in the RD and the letter-by-letter group, for the uent group, the percentage of errors shi ing to the non-accent (about 90%) was much higher than that of shi ing to the rst-syllable accent. Kubozono (2006a) reported that in Japanese, the frequency of non-accented words was 52%, while that of words accented in the rst-syllable was 42%, and only 4% of words were accented in the second syllable.…”

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Word Accent Repetition in Japanese Children With Reading Difficulties

Sakono¹,

Ito²,

Ueda³

2017

JSER

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e purpose of this study was to examine whether school-age children with reading di culties have di culty in word accent repetition by comparing the data of young children (Sakono, Ito, Fukuda, & Fukuda, 2011). Participants were nine school-age children with reading di culties. e data of 38 typically developing children (Letter-by-letter group; 21 children, Fluent group; 17 children) aged ve to six (Sakono et al., 2011) were also used. Stimuli with 3-mora non-familiar words were presented to each child with three types of accent patterns. Participants were required to repeat them aloud. e results were as follows; the mean number of words repeated correctly in the children with reading di culties was signi cantly lower than that of the uent group, and similar to that of the letter-by-letter group for the rst-and second-syllable accented words. ese results suggest that Japanese school-age children with reading di culties have problems in word accent production, which is similar to those with letter-by-letter reading.

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“…The interviewer was a non-native speaker of Japanese with a high-level of proficiency, and subjects were 10 native speakers of Japanese aged 31-45 years (five male, five female). The age of subjects was kept below 50 years in order to minimize any potential influence of the effects of age on f 0 (Harrington, Palethorpe & Watson 2007), and all subjects were speakers of the Tokyo dialect of Japanese (born and raised in the Tokyo area up to age 18 years) in order to reduce any possible effects on f 0 from different dialects (Kubozono 2012). Interviews were conducted in a lounge setting rather than a recording booth or lab in order to encourage a more natural, conversational style of speech.…”

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Prosodic properties of formality in conversational Japanese

Sherr-Ziarko

2018

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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This paper examines potential prosodic cues for level of formality in Japanese conversational speech using speech data gathered via one-on-one interviews. Based on previous work on the phonetic properties of formality in Japanese (Ofuka et al. 2000, Ito 2002), further studies of Korean (Winter & Grawunder 2012) and Catalan Spanish (Hübscher, Borràs-Comes & Prieto 2017), and on a lab-based pilot study, the study examined properties of f0, intensity, pause frequency, and articulation rate via mixed effects regression models and a functional data analysis (Grabe, Kochanski & Coleman 2007, Ramsay 2006). Analysis of the speech data shows significant relationships between a number of prosodic variables and level of formality, and suggests that some of these relationships may apply cross-linguistically.

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Varieties of pitch accent systems in Japanese

Cited by 29 publications

References 7 publications

Acoustic Properties of Formality in Conversational Japanese

Acoustic Properties of Formality in Conversational Japanese

Word Accent Repetition in Japanese Children With Reading Difficulties

Prosodic properties of formality in conversational Japanese

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