Outline
This is a cineradiograph of articulatory movement of Japanese filmed in two installments, in May 1965 and April 1967, by the then Speech Laboratory of the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (members in charge: Yukio Uemura and Shōji Takada).
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| Part 1: | Pronunciations of Japanese Syllables (Film A and Film B) |
| Part 2: | Spoken Word Recording (An Excerpt from "Before the Dawn" by Tōson Shimazaki) (Film A) |
| Part 3: | Articulatory Movements (I) (Film A and Film B) |
| Part 4: | Articulatory Movements (II) (Film A and Film B) |
| Speaker: | Yukio Uemura, a then member of the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, a native of Tokyo | ||
| Dates of recording: | film A | May 1965 | |
| film B | April 1967 | ||
| Place of recording: | Central Radiological Room, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo | ||
Play/Download
Film A and Film B are divided into separate mp4 files.
- Play "Part 1 Film A [Pronunciations of Japanese Syllables]" 【mp4：160.6MB】
- Play "Part 1 Film B [Pronunciations of Japanese Syllables]" 【mp4：76.9MB】
- Play "Part 2 Film A [Spoken Word Recording (An Excerpt from "Before the Dawn" by Tōson Shimazaki)]" 【mp4：73.3MB】
- Play "Part 3 Film A [Articulatory Movements (I)]" 【mp4：98.4MB】
- Play "Part 3 Film B [Articulatory Movements (I)]"【mp4：33.4MB】
- Play "Part 4 Film A [Articulatory Movements (II)]" 【mp4：33.6MB】
- Play "Part 4 Film B [Articulatory Movements (II)]" 【mp4：101.9MB】
This cineradiograph is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution – Non-Commercial – ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
Commentary/Report
Commentary about this cineradiograph is found in "X-sen Eiga Shiryo niyoru Boin no Hatsuon no Kenkyu: Phoneme Kenkyu Josetsu (A Study on the Pronunciation of Vowel Sounds Based on X-ray Film Materials: Prolegomena to the Study of Phonemes) (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Research Report 60)" (1978, Shuei Shuppan) and "Nihongo no Boin, Shiin, Onsetsu: Choin Undou no Jikken Onseigakuteki Kenkyu (Japanese Vowels, Consonants, Syllables: Experimental Phonetics Research of Articulatory Movements) (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Research Report 100)" (1990, Shuei Shuppan). For more information, consult these reports.
To download the reports based on "A Cineradiograph of Japanese Pronunciation" （Academic Repository of the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics）
- "X-sen Eiga Shiryo niyoru Boin no Hatsuon no Kenkyu: Phoneme Kenkyu Josetsu (A Study on the Pronunciation of Vowel Sounds Based on X-ray Film Materials: Prolegomena to the Study of Phonemes) (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Research Report 60)"
- "Nihongo no Boin, Shiin, Onsetsu: Choin Undou no Jikken Onseigakuteki Kenkyu (Japanese Vowels, Consonants, Syllables: Experimental Phonetics Research of Articulatory Movements) (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Research Report 100)"