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Acoustic features on the time length of the Kagoshima dialect

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2016, (50), pp.37-54
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature

Ko Hye Jung 1

1가톨릭관동대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this study, I researched the correlation between two accent types of the Kagoshima dialect and time length in the old generation and the young generation from an acoustic phonetics point of view. I analyzed the correlation between the number of syllables and the length of words focusing on duration. The summary of the results is as follows. It is verified that, in the old generation, the time length is controlled according to the two accent types of the Kagoshima at the level of accentual phrase. In other words, it is found that the duration of the rising auslaut accent type (B Type) is longer than the falling auslaut accent type (A Type). Further, it is found that there is a correlation between the number of syllables and the length of words at the phrase level in the old generation. For example, the total time length of words increases at a constant rate according to the increase of the number of syllables. On the other hand, unlike the old generation, in the young generation the time length after three syllables does not increase at a constant rate when compared with the previous syllable. On this point of view, it is suggested that while the Kagoshima dialect does use the ‘syllable’ as the time-length unit, it also depends on ‘mora’.

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