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KMID : 0917520020090030211
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Journal of Speech Sciences
2002 Volume.9 No. 3 p.211 ~ p.221
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Syntactic Ambiguities and their Resolution in Prosody in Japanese
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The prosody can play acrucial role in differentiating ambigouous sentences to correctly reflect their intended syntactic structures. In what way do the speakers in Tokyo and Sendai dialects of Japanese use prosodic elements to differentiate syntactic amiguities? Acoustic meassurement wasw made of utterances of ambiguous sentences in Japanese to observe prosodic strategikes for disambiguation, Materials were sentences of the type ADV-VP1-NP-VP2, ADV-NP1-NP2-VP2, where the ambiguity lies in locative adverbial modification, ADV modifying either VP1 or VP@. for this construction the Japanese cteate the same ambiguities. After defining the depth of a syntactic boundary, F0 of the phrase before and after the boundary, and duration of the syllable and pause before the boundary were measured. The resultsshow that Tokyo dialects speakers use F0 after syntactic boundary, and Sendai dialects speakers use of the syllable and/or pause before the boundary.
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