An Introduction to The National Language Research Institute:
A Sketch of its Achievements
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II.2.5 Sentence Patterns in Spoken Japanese
Part II- On Materials in Speech
(Report 23, 1963. 283 pages)
This research follows Part I (Report 18) and was based on
such materials as lectures, addresses, congratulations,
after-dinner speeches, and news comments on the radio.
The basic methodology of this research was generally the same
as that described in Report 18. However, the details of the
methods were revised considerably. Especially the
constructions were analyzed and described in detail.
The points to be reported compared with Report 18 are
as follows:
1. Construction- Components forming the kernels of
sentences (predicates, subjects, compliments and objects)
and components expanding the kernels (adverbial modifiers and
others) were distinguished. Besides, independent
components, modal modifiers and subordinate clauses were
recognized as components of the construction. Various
construction patterns consisting of these components were
established. Namely, constructions were broadly divided into two
classes: I) constructions consisting of independent
components, and II) constructions with predicates as their
nuclei. The latter were further classified into: 1) basic
constructions (a. kernel constructions; b. expanded
constructions; c. compound constructions) and 2) conjoined
constructions.
2. Intonation- Intonations were classified into those
expressing sentence moods placed at the ends of sentences and
those expressing emphasis in some sense. Of the former class,
two types of intonation were found: a rising tone ( ) and a
falling tone (or non-rising tone) ( ). In the latter class,
a high tone ( ) and a low tone ( ) were found.
3. Synthetic Sentence Patterns- Further studies of
synthetic sentence patterns are expected in the future. Here
a few problems of synthesis are pointed out and the prospects
discussed.
4. Reference- As reference, previous studies of sentence
patterns were surveyed.
The persons in charge of this research were OISI
Hatutaro~, MIYAZI Yutaka, MINAMI Huzio and SUZUKI Sigeyuki.
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