Intonational Accompaniments of Japanese Morphemes WA and GA
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10256334 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alice Nancy Finn (Harvard University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-57 |
| Publication date | 1984-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8309 • E-ISSN: 1756-6053 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002383098402700104 |
| OpenAlex | W1510449792 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
An experiment was conducted to study intonational characteristics that accompany the grammatical morphemes wa and ga in Japanese utterances. Twelve native speakers of Japanese read aloud twelve sentences that contained various sub-types of wa and ga. Acoustical analysis of fundamental frequency and pause durations revealed that wa was preceded by a larger fall in fundamental frequency than ga and that wa was frequently followed by a pause, unlike ga. Thematic and contrastive sub-types of wa were differentiated by pauses as well as fundamental frequency fall. Three sub-types of ga were not clearly differentiated by pauses, although differences were observed in the patterns of fundamental frequency
Acoustics · Fundamental frequency · Linguistics · Morpheme · Physics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech and dialogue systems
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2017 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |