Ellipsis and wa-marking in Japanese Conversation
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A01=John Fry
Annotated Corpus
Argument Ellipsis
argument omission
Argument Roles
Author_John Fry
Backchannel Behavior
Category=CFG
Category=CFK
Comp
Data Set
discourse analysis
eq_bestseller
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Hon
Information Packaging
Intransitive Predicates
Japanese Conversation
Japanese conversational ellipsis analysis
Japanese syntax
Linguistic Data Consortium
Particle Wa
Peak F0 Values
POS Category
POS Tag
Predicate Argument Relations
Predicate Tokens
PRES.
prosodic features
Prosodic Focus
Semantic Information
Speaker Disfluencies
Speaker Turns
spoken language corpora
Thematic Wa
Topic Marker Wa
topic particle research
Transitive Predicates
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- ISBN 9781138968585
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 29 Feb 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book investigates the operation of two linguistic mechanisms, ellipsis and wa-marking, in a corpus of colloquial Japanese speech. Its data set is the CallHome Japanese (CHJ) corpus, a collection of transcripts and digitized speech data for 120 telephone conversations between native speakers of Japanese. To make the CHJ data useful for linguistic research, John Fry annotates the original transcripts with a comprehensive set of acoustic, phonetic, syntactic, and semantic tags. John Fry demonstrates that Japanese conversation obeys certain principles of argument ellipsis that appear to be language universal: namely, the tendency to omit transitive and human subjects and the tendency to express at most one argument per clause. He identifies a set of syntactic and semantic factors that correlate significantly with the ellipsis of grammatical particles following a noun phrase. These factors include the grammatical construction type (question, idiom), length of the NP, utterance length, proximity of the NP to the predicate, and the animacy and definiteness of the NP. The animacy and definiteness constrains are of particular interest because these too seem to reflect language-universal principles. Analyzing the CHJ data further, Fry investigates the use and function of the topic-marking particle wa. His study identifies a set of semantic and prosodic properties that tend to distinguish wa from the subject-marking particle ga. This book shows that wa-phrases exhibit more prominent intonation, as measured by peak F0, than ga-phrases in the CHJ speech data, contradicting accounts which predict that ga-phrases, because they are associated with new information, should be more prominent.
John Fry received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University in 2002, and is currently a consultant at Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI). His research interests include natural language processing, speech processing, and Japanese semantics and syntax.
