Shuri hoogen no intoneeshon : Intonation of the Shuri-Ryukyu dialect of Japanese

• Intonation of the Shuri-Ryukidialect was analyzed with reference to question, syntactic structure, focus, and emotion. Among these, syntactic structure and focu showed most consistent correspondence with intonation and the intonational characteristics showed resemblance with those of Tokyo Japanese.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Studier av enskilda språk (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Languages (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Shuri-Ryukyu dialect of Japanese

intonation

syntactic structure

focus

emotion

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)