@inproceedings{oai:repository.ninjal.ac.jp:00001928,
 author = {Kibe, Nobuko and Otsuki, Tomoyo and Sato, Kumiko},
 book = {Proceedings of the LREC 2018 Special Speech Sessions},
 month = {May},
 note = {LREC 2018 Special Speech Sessions "Speech Resources Collection in Real-World Situations"; Phoenix Seagaia Conference Center, Miyazaki; 2018-05-09, application/pdf, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, In general, it is said that interrogative sentences have a final rising intonation (Kori 2003). However, this rule is not true of some Japanese dialects. Kibe (2010, 2011,2013) classify sentence-final tones of interrogatives in Japanese dialects into four types: Type A as a rising tone (Tōkyō dialect), Type B as a falling tone (Hirosaki dialect, Kagoshima dialect), Type C as a rising/falling tone (Hiroshima dialect), and Type D as a gradual rising tone (Fukuoka dialect). Since the data in Kibe (2010, 2011 and 3013) were extracted from an existing nation-wide dialect survey where an elicitation task was employed, it is not clear whether how much such intonation patterns appear in a spontaneous speech in each region. This article examines sentence-final tones of interrogatives extracted from a natural discourse stored in the “Corpus of Japanese Dialects” (COJADS), which is currently in preparation for release by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). The results revealed that the four types are attestable even in a natural discourse, and furthermore, we identified a dialect such as Hirosaki dialect which distinguishes interrogatives from declaratives by the pitch range in the final falling tone.},
 pages = {21--28},
 publisher = {Center for Corpus Development, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics},
 title = {Intonational variations at the end of interrogative sentences in Japanese dialects : From the “Corpus of Japanese Dialects”},
 year = {2018}
}