Fukuoka Japanese Intonation Database
福岡方言のイントネーションに関するデータベース
Jennifer L. Smith
Introduction
[This page is currently under construction and will be updated as material becomes available.]
Publications
The following publications report some of the results of this project. (Further publications are in preparation.)
- Smith, Jennifer L. (in press) Wh prosody is not focus prosody in Fukuoka Japanese. To appear in Michael Kenstowicz, Ted Levin, and Ryo Masuda (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics 23. Stanford: CSLI Publications. Pre-publication version: PDF
- Smith, Jennifer L. (2013). Fukuoka Japanese wh prosody in production and perception. Lingua 124: 96-130. Pre-publication version: PDF
- Smith, Jennifer L. (2012). Empirical approaches to Fukuoka Japanese wh prosody. In Matthew A. Tucker, Anie Thompson, Oliver Northrup, and Ryan Bennett (eds.), Proceedings of FAJL 5, 251-272. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL. Pre-publication version: PDF
Production experiments
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Production data from a sentence-reading task
- [sound files will be available here when editing is complete]
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Quasi-spontaneous production in "conversation" tasks
- [sound files will be available here when editing is complete]
Perception experiment
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Perception stimuli
- [sound files will be available here when editing is complete]
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Subject responses
- [data will be available here when editing is complete]
Acknowledgments
Heartfelt thanks...
- to all experiment participants
- to Tomoyuki Kubo and Randall Hendrick for theoretical and conceptual discussion and comments
- to Noriyuki Ikeda, Yui Izumo, Tomoyuki Kubo, Naomi Matsunaga, Reiko Mazuka, Go Mizumoto, Elliott Moreton, Tsutomu Sakamoto, Kumiko Sato, Maki Takahashi, and Daichi Yasunaga for assistance with materials design and other practical aspects of the experiments
- to the Kyushu University Linguistics Department for hosting me during the recording project
- to the Carolina Asia Center Faculty Travel Grant program for financial support