著者

Gakuji Kumagai Naoya Watabe Shigeto Kawahara

出版者

日本音声学会

雑誌

音声研究 (ISSN:13428675)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.27, no.2, pp.64-72, 2023-10-31 (Released:2023-10-31)

参考文献数

66

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Kumagai & Kawahara (2022) found that Russian speakers tend to judge names with [Ca] to be more suitable for larger, post-evolution Pokémon characters than names with [Ci]. This result raised a new question regarding whether it is the vowel quality difference or consonant palatalization caused by [i] that affected the responses. The current experiment compared three conditions ([Ca] vs. [Cja] vs. [Ci]) and found that names with [Cja] were judged to be least appropriate for post-evolution characters, suggesting the important role of phonemic palatalization. The current experiment additionally showed that Russian speakers tend to judge longer names to be more suitable for post-evolution characters.

著者

Shigeto Kawahara

出版者

日本音声学会

雑誌

音声研究 (ISSN:13428675)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.20, no.2, pp.102-110, 2016-08-30 (Released:2017-07-04)

参考文献数

26

被引用文献数

1

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As a case study of the general theme of this special issue—“different phonetic realizations of different social characters”, this paper explores prosodic features of two types of prototypical maid voices, which have been emerging in recent Japanese culture: “moe” and “tsun”. Two professional voice actresses read simple Japanese SOV sentences in three types of voices: Moe, tsun, and normal. Acoustic analyses show that the moe voice is characterized by higher f0 and louder voice than the normal voice, whereas the tsun voice is characterized by lower f0 and quieter voice. The current study also finds that the speakers manipulate H-tone targets more extensively than L-tone targets to differentiate different speech styles, which is compatible with some previous studies and models of intonation. In terms of its research value, the current findings may not be ground-breaking; however, an additional value of this research lies in the fact that this sort of material makes phonetic analyses more accessible to the general public as well as to students in undergraduate education. To that end, some sample sounds are made available at http://bit.ly/1WCu5DA.

著者

Shigeto Kawahara Gakuji Kumagai

出版者

日本音声学会

雑誌

音声研究 (ISSN:13428675)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.23, pp.111-116, 2019-08-31 (Released:2019-08-31)

参考文献数

48

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Recent studies show that sound symbolic principles are operative in Pokémon characters’ names; e.g., those characters with names that contain more voiced obstruents tend to be larger and heavier (Kawahara et al. 2018b). One question that arose from this line of research is whether other attributes of Pokémon—specifically their types—show any tangible effects of sound symbolism. This question is related to the more general issue of what kinds of semantic attributes/dimensions can be signaled by sound symbolism. In answer to this question, Hosokawa et al. (2018) showed that the dark type characters are more likely to contain voiced stops and less likely to contain labial consonants in their names than the fairy type characters. The current judgment experiment shows that these associations are productive. Moreover, the effect sizes of sound symbolism were not correlated with each participant’s familiarity with Pokémon, suggesting that the sound symbolic knowledge is more abstract than what can be gleaned from the Pokémon lexicon.

著者

Shigeto KAWAHARA Donna ERICKSON Jeff MOORE Yoshiho SHIBUYA Atsuo SUEMITSU

出版者

The Phonetic Society of Japan

雑誌

音声研究 (ISSN:13428675)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.18, no.2, pp.77-87, 2014-08-30 (Released:2017-08-31)

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近年の研究では,英語の単語・文レベルの強勢が下顎の開きの大きさに顕現することが示されてきた。この結果を踏まえ,本稿では日本語の韻律パターンがどのように下顎の開きに影響するかを検証した。対象としたのは日本語のピッチアクセント,韻脚(foot),韻律句(phonological phrase)の影響である。EMAを使った本実験によると,ピッチアクセントは日本語では顎の動きに影響が無く,韻脚もはっきりとした影響を及ぼしているとは言いがたい。しかし韻律句に関しては,句の最初や最後,特に文の最後に大きな顎の開きがみられ,ここに何かしら強勢を認めることができる。ここで浮かび上がってくる仮説は,「日本語にも強勢が存在する」というもので,従来の「英語=強勢言語,日本語=アクセント言語」という分類法に疑問を投げかける。

著者

Jeff Moore Jason Shaw Shigeto Kawahara Takayuki Arai

出版者

ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

雑誌

Acoustical Science and Technology (ISSN:13463969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.39, no.2, pp.75-83, 2018-03-01 (Released:2018-03-01)

参考文献数

27

被引用文献数

1

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This study examines the tongue shapes used by Japanese speakers to produce the English liquids /ɹ/ and /l/. Four native Japanese speakers of varying levels of English acquisition and one North American English speaker were recorded both acoustically and with Electromagnetic Articulography. Seven distinct articulation strategies were identified. Results indicate that the least advanced speaker uses a single articulation strategy for both sounds. Intermediate speakers used a wide range of articulations, while the most advanced non-native speaker relied on a single strategy for each sound.

著者

Shigeto Kawahara Musashi Homma Takaki Yoshimura Takayuki Arai

出版者

一般社団法人 日本音響学会

雑誌

Acoustical Science and Technology (ISSN:13463969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.37, no.5, pp.202-210, 2016-09-01 (Released:2016-09-01)

参考文献数

22

被引用文献数

1

著者

Shigeto KAWAHARA

出版者

The Phonetic Society of Japan

雑誌

音声研究 (ISSN:13428675)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.19, no.2, pp.9-15, 2015-08-30 (Released:2017-08-31)

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The C/D model is a theory of the phonology-phonetics interface. This paper presents my personal understanding of the C/D model, based on my reading of Osamu Fujimura's work as well as my personal interaction with him. I also point out some key features of the C/D model as a theory of the phonology-phonetics interface.