著者

坂口 至

出版者

日本音声学会

雑誌

音声研究 (ISSN:13428675)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.5, no.3, pp.33-41, 2001-12-31

被引用文献数

2

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One characteristic of the Nagasaki dialect is that it has a "Nikei-accent system" that is widely distributed in the south-western part of Kyushu. This accentual system has two contrastive tonal patterns called "A" and "B", irrespective of the number of moras in the word. The first pattern involves a fall in pitch within the word, while the other pattern does not. Another characteristic of the two-pattern system is that the accentual pattern of compound words is determined by that of their leftmost element. The Nagasaki dialect shares these two characteristics with the Kagoshima dialect, but crucially differs in that it is a mora-counting rather than syllable-counting dialect.