第1回LC研究会のご案内

この度、言語とコミュニケーションに関する研究会を新しく企画しました。月1回くらいの頻度で、国語研で開催したいと考えています。日時は (少なくとも9月までは、最終 or (最終 – 1)) 水曜 16:00〜18:00 を定例としたいと思います。当面は、クローズドで少人数のものを想定しています。発表者は、メンバーの立候補制です。

第1回を以下の要綱で開催したいと思います。日程が合わない方はご容赦ください。

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第1回言語・コミュニケーション研究会 (仮称)
日時: 2009年5月27日 (水) 16:00〜18:00
場所: 国立国語研究所4階モニター室 (?)
発表者: 伝康晴 (千葉大学文学部)
題目: Utterance initial elements in Japanese: From a communicative viewpoint
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諸般の事情により、スライドは英語ですが、日本語で発表します。Abstractがありますので、添付します。

よろしくご参集ください。

Abstract:

Utterance initial position is an important place where speakers should resolve the communication-cognition trade-off problem. From a cognitive perspective, speakers may sometimes require much time in planning the content and formulating the structure of the constituent to be produced. This cognitive load may be particularly heavy at the utterance initial position in which speakers should prepare for the whole utterance. From a communicative viewpoint, on the other hand, speakers are pressed by a temporal imperative; they may avoid pausing too long so that they prevent themselves from being heard as opting
out or distracted or losing an opportunity to take, or keep, the turn. Thus, speakers at the utterance initial position should manage the trade-off between the time required by the cognitive process and the time suitable for the communicative process. The grammar of a language seems to equip particular devices to solve this communication-cognition trade-off. For instance, fillers, such as eeto and anoo, are a typical example of such devices in Japanese, as is shown in Michiko Watanabe’s work. In this presentation we illustrate another example; word repetitions at, or around, utterance initial position. We show how repetitions are different, in their syntactic and acoustic properties, from other type of speech disfluency, i.e., substitution repairs, and how these properties are related to the communication-cognition trade-off problem. We further examine another utterance initial element, i.e., the prolonged conjunction de, and demonstrate its contrast to fillers and word repetitions.