ILCAA Joint Research Project

Reconsideration of the tonal typology of Japonic languages

Keywords

• Japonic languages
• Bantu languages
• restricted tone systems
• intragenetic typology

Areas

• East Asia (mainly Japan)
• Sub-Saharan Africa

Website

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About the Project

Project term: April, 2021–March, 2024

  This research project will discuss various tonal systems and phenomena observed among Japonic languages by incorporating knowledge of cross-linguistic studies on tonal languages into existing research on the accents of Japonic languages. Specifically, this research project seeks to (1) reinterpret traditional descriptions by considering the word-prosodic systems of Japonic languages as restricted tone systems; (2) redefine terms and concepts unique to the theory of Japanese accentology in the context of general linguistics; and build a typology which enables researchers to understand the diversity of tonal systems among Japonic languages.

Members

Coordinator

• Hayato AOI (ILCAA)

ILCAA Staff

• Daisuke SHINAGAWA
• Keita KURABE

Joint Researchers

• Kenan CELIK
• Tatsuya HIRAKO
• Shu HIRATA
• Kunihiko KUROKI
• Kohei MATSUKURA
• Yosuke MIKI
• Kohei NAKAZAWA
• Rihito SHIRATA

Outputs

Meetings

The 4th meeting

• Date/Time: Sat 12 Mar 2022 13:30–17:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3 (LingDy3)”

• 1. All participants

  Annual reports (the 1st year)

  2. All participants

  Planning (the 2nd year)

The 3rd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(588KB)

• Date/Time: Sun 19 Dec 2021 10:30-16:30
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3 (LingDy3)”, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory) “Case as a Grammatical Category in Japanese and Ryukyuan Languages” (Principal Investigator: Shiro TAKEUCHI (Seijo University) Project Number: 20K20704)

• 1. Keita KURABE (ILCAA)

  “Overview of tone in Mainland Southeast Asian languages”

  2. Shiro TAKEUCHI (Seijo University)

  “Accent and prosody of phrases in Miyagi-Toyoma dialect with particular reference to occurrence of a rising kernel accent and the proto-accent system of Hokuo dialects”

  3. Kunihiko KUROKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe Shoin Womenʼs University)

  “Tonal formation of verbs in Japanese dialects with pitch accent: A distinctive fall in pitch within a verb stem”

  4. All participants

  General discussion

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(557KB)

• Date/Time: Sat 7 Aug 2021 10:00–17:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3 (LingDy3)”, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Fieldwork on the accent systems of Miyako Ryukyuan, the Southern Ryukyuan languages” (Tetsuo NITTA (Kanazawa University) Project number: 20H01259)

• 1. Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA)

  “Overview of Bantu Tonology”

  2. Tatsuya HIRAKO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nanzan University)

  “Rereading de Boer (2010)”

  3. Hayato AOI (ILCAA Research Associate, NINJAL)

  “Word-prosody of the Tarama dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan: Pitch-accent or privative tone language?”

  4. Celik KENAN (ILCAA Joint Researcher, NINJAL)

  “Accent systems of Miyako Ryukyuan: Review and perspective”

  5. All participants

  General discussion

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)(579KB)

• Date/Time: Sun 9 May 2021 13:00–16:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3 (LingDy3)”

• Hayato AOI (ILCAA Research Associate/ NINJAL)

  Introduction

  All participants

  General discussion

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