일본어의 통사적으로 애매한 문의해소와 인토네이션 구조

Resolution of Syntactic Ambiguities and Structure of Intonation in Japanese

The prosody can play a crucial role in differentiating ambiguous sentences to correctly reflect their intended syntactic structures. The purpose of this study is to see in terms of F0 variation in Japanese how resolution of syntactic ambiguities and lexical word accent interact with each other in realizing oberall intonation patterns. Acoustic measurements were made of utterances of ambiguous sentences in Japanese to observe prosodic strategies for disambiguation. Materials were sentences of the type ADV-NP1-NP2-VP2, where the ambiguity lies in locative adverbial modification, ADV modifying either NP1 orNP2. I set six points for F0 measurements;F1s, F1m, F2s, F2m, F3s and F3m, two for each phrase corresponding to F0 at the beginning of the first syllable and that of the vocalic portion of the second syllable in the three NP's.