Sound Data of Utterances in Ariake
Western Saga Dialect
--Sounds over the non-past form of a verb of a relative clause and its
head noun--
October in 2014 and October in 2019
Hiroki Koga
The utterances recorded are my own. I am a native speaker of the
dialect. This home page contains the data focusing on
the sequence of sounds over the boundary between the non-past form of
the verb and a head noun. The verb is underlyingly /ru/-fina and occur
with the glottal stop or the former part of the gemination final like
/tabuQ/ `eat [Non-past]' or
/mo:shi-ukuQ/ `receive the order of'. The initial segment of a head
noun is
/u/, /o/, /a/, /i/, /e/, /p/, /b/, /t/, /ch/, /ts/, /d/ , /h/, /h/ as
in /hu.../, /h/ as in /hi.../, /k/, /g/, /m/, /n/, /s/, /sh/, /z/, /j/
as in /zi.../, /r/, /y/ or /w/.
Since the dialect as well as Japanese is a head final language, a
phrasal pattern [tabuQ pan], for example, means
`bread that (we) will
eat [Noun].' For example, [tabup
pan wa doko ni a:] means `Where is the
bread that we will eat?' The data will be relevant to figure out what
sound can we hear for the former part of the geminated consonant over
the boundary.
The symbol Q is the glottal stop. If you click each sequence of sounds,
then you can hear the words
and a sentence contains the sequence in Saga western dialect three
times. The sequences of sounds enclosed between [ and ] may be
intermediary forms of the sequences of actual sounds.