{"title":"Sound-symbolic Effects of Voiced Obstruents and Mora Counts on Monster Names in Digital Monster and Monster Hunter and on the Spell Names in Final Fantasy","authors":"Gakuji Kumagai, Kazuaki Yoshitake, Hiromu Tanji, Takuya Matsuhashi","doi":"10.24467/ONSEIKENKYU.24.0_63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24467/ONSEIKENKYU.24.0_63","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115280623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Weakening of Stop Articulation in Japanese Voiced Plosives","authors":"K. Maekawa","doi":"10.24467/ONSEIKENKYU.22.1_21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24467/ONSEIKENKYU.22.1_21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122863116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Semantic Effects of Nouns on Tone Merger: The Ikema Dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan","authors":"Yosuke Igarashi","doi":"10.24467/ONSEIKENKYU.22.1_52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24467/ONSEIKENKYU.22.1_52","url":null,"abstract":"The Ikema dialect of Miyako, Southern Ryukyuan, has a three-pattern accent system in which three tone classes (Types A, B, and C) are lexically contrastive, although the Type A nouns are fewer. The biased distribution of tone classes is a consequence of a diachronic change whereby Types A and B merged together. This study aims to confirm that the original three-pattern system in Ikema retains the proto-Ryukyuan system and to demonstrate that a set of words that are originally of Type A and share specific meanings are not merged into Type B.","PeriodicalId":224194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114928398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phonetic Shape and Linguistic Function of Penultimate Non-Lexical Prominence","authors":"K. Maekawa","doi":"10.24467/ONSEIKENKYU.22.1_35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24467/ONSEIKENKYU.22.1_35","url":null,"abstract":"Penultimate Non-Lexical Prominence, or PNLP, is a variant of phrase final rising-falling intonation in Standard (Tokyo) Japanese. In the first half of the paper, phonetic difference between the authentic rising-falling intonation and PNLP was examined using the phonetic data of the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ). In the last half, PNLP’s linguistic function was analyzed using CSJ’s monologue speech and clause boundary labels that provide information about the relative strengths of various clause boundaries. Analysis of the distribution of PNLP with reference to clause boundaries revealed two interesting functions. Firstly, PNLP seemed to have culminative function; it occurred, typically, only once in an utterance bounded by absolute (i.e., the strongest) clause boundaries. Secondly, modest delimitative function was also observed; PNLP occurred, most frequently, but not regularly, in the penultimate accentual phrase of an utterance thereby predicting the end of an utterance. These findings and pilot text analysis suggested tentative conclusion that native speakers of Japanese used PNLP to predict the end of an utterance and a change in topic at the utterance boundary.","PeriodicalId":224194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129500117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Input Information of the C/D Model for Vowel Devoicing in Japanese","authors":"Michinao Matsui","doi":"10.24467/ONSEIKENKYU.21.1_127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24467/ONSEIKENKYU.21.1_127","url":null,"abstract":"The C/D model (Fujimura 1992, 2007) is an explicit framework that calculates the continuous physical gestures and other quantitative phonetic information of speech sounds from inputs that solely consist of qualitative phonological information. Fujimura proposes that the inputs to the C/D model are syllables, themselves consisting of sets of unary and underspecified phonological features, instead of a set of binary features used in many standard phonological theories. This paper slightly revises this original formulation by Fujimura and instead proposes that syllables can be further defined in terms of “mora sets”, in addition to unary features that define the qualitative characteristics of the Impulse Response Functions (IRFs). The argument is developed based on discussion of vowel devoicing in Japanese.","PeriodicalId":224194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133351411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accent Reduction and Restrictive Modification in Tokyo Japanese","authors":"Shiro Kori","doi":"10.24467/ONSEIKENKYU.21.1_105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24467/ONSEIKENKYU.21.1_105","url":null,"abstract":"The level of phonetic realization of lexical accent (reduced level, which, in the case of words with an accent kernel, is exhibited by a low F0 value, or full level) is one of the major determinants of sentence intonation in Tokyo Japanese. Three experiments were conducted to provide evidence to support the author’s previous claim that the reduction of accent level is triggered by semantically restrictive modification, and not by syntax. In Experiment 1, F0 values of the first two constituents of [[A[BC]]D] and [A[[BC]D]] were compared. The results indicated the irrelevance of overall syntactic branching structure for the accent level. In Experiments 2 and 3, peak F0 values of nouns with an accent kernel in semantically restrictive and non-restrictive conditions were investigated acoustically and perceptually. The results supported the prediction: nouns have lower F0 values when they are semantically restricted by the directly preceding modifier than when they are not.","PeriodicalId":224194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125344277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"大人の発話スタイルが乳児の顔注視行動に与える影響 : 歌いかけ(infant-Directed Singing)に着目して","authors":"今福 理博, 大橋 喜美子, 明和 政子","doi":"10.24467/ONSEIKENKYU.20.2_48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24467/ONSEIKENKYU.20.2_48","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan","volume":"329 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124301541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Geminate Consonants of the Antoh Dialect in Fukui Prefecture","authors":"T. Nitta","doi":"10.24467/ONSEIKENKYU.20.1_36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24467/ONSEIKENKYU.20.1_36","url":null,"abstract":"— 36 — SUMMARY: A special geminate like ff in maffa ‘pillow’, which does not exist in Standard Japanese (SJ) is found in the Antoh dialect in Fukui Prefecture. This paper deals with the synchronic and diachronic phenomena concerning the ff geminate in addition to bb and ss . This paper has the following purposes: (1) to illustrate the correspondence of geminates between the Antoh dialect and SJ, (2) to investigate the historical development of the geminates in the Antoh dialect, (3) to point out that the manifestation of the geminates in the Antoh dialect is similar to that of the Miyako-jima dialect in the Ryukyuan language, and (4) to propose that the explanation for the processes of the geminate in this dialect gives a suggestive source to the discus-sion on the processes of sound changes in the Ryukyuan language.","PeriodicalId":224194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125569898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Hashi, Akina Kodama, T. Miura, Sho Daimon, Yuhki Takakura, R. Hayashi
{"title":"Articulatory Variability in Word-Final Japanese Moraic-Nasals: An X-ray Microbeam Study","authors":"M. Hashi, Akina Kodama, T. Miura, Sho Daimon, Yuhki Takakura, R. Hayashi","doi":"10.24467/ONSEIKENKYU.20.1_77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24467/ONSEIKENKYU.20.1_77","url":null,"abstract":"The place of articulation in Japanese moraic-nasals is known to vary in accordance with the following sound and is assumed to be uvular in word final position. This paper describes the articulatory variability of word-final moraic-nasals based on the X-ray microbeam speech production database in Japanese. The results depict substantive interspeaker variability in three of the four words examined. Moreover, 75% of the data examined were deemed unlikely to be uvular nasals and the lips were likely to be closed in 40% of the data. The results do not support the claim that word-final moraic-nasals are uvular.","PeriodicalId":224194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121808725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yosuke Igarashi, T. Takubo, Yu-ichi Hayashi, Thomas Pellard, Tomoyuki Kubo
{"title":"The Ikema Dialect of Miyako Rykyuan Has a Three-, not Two-, Pattern Accent System","authors":"Yosuke Igarashi, T. Takubo, Yu-ichi Hayashi, Thomas Pellard, Tomoyuki Kubo","doi":"10.24467/ONSEIKENKYU.20.1_47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24467/ONSEIKENKYU.20.1_47","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we test the hypothesis that Ikema, a dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan, has a three-pattern accent system, where three accent classes, Types A, B, and C, are lexically distinguished, in contrast with previous studies which have claimed that it has a two-pattern accent system. The results of our analysis confirm the existence of three distinct accent classes. The three-way distinction can only be observed in quite restricted conditions, including when nouns followed by one or more bimoraic particles precede a predicate. The results also reveal that Type A words are few in number, indicating that Type A words are in the process of merging with Type B.","PeriodicalId":224194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130716898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}