肯定的・否定的接続詞のプロソディー

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In this paper, we discuss how the semantics of conjunctions affects prosody across clauses/sentences. Nespor and Vogel (1986) observe that phonological rules across sentences may apply when there exists a positive semantic relation (i.e., and, therefore, because) between two sentences. The question is whether a positive semantic relation universally helps to join two prosodic domains. We conducted experiments to see whether this is the case in English and Japanese. The result shows that in English, a positive semantic relation helps to join two prosodic domains, but a negative semantic relation does not. However, the data show that in Japanese, a positive semantic relation does not help to join two prosodic domains any more than a negative semantic relation. In fact, in Japanese, two prosodic domains were more detached in the examples of positive semantic relations than in those of negative semantic relations. We discuss syntactic brackets, word/morpheme status of conjunctives and the semantic closeness of negative relations.