Abstract
In this study, we examined the effects of focus, accent combination, and adnominal construction on the occurrence of dephrasing in five native Japanese speakers. With reference to the influence of focus, we studied three utterances: 1) a focus-free utterance, 2) an utterance where the focus is present on the first of two words, and 3) an utterance where the focus is present immediately after two words. The results indicate that the dephrasing ratio in the two utterances containing the focus was significantly higher than that in the focus-free utterance. In addition, the dephrasing ratio per accent combination was the highest in UU (unaccented, unaccented) words, followed by AU (accented, unaccented), UA, and AA. Lastly, the dephrasing ratio per adnominal construction was significantly higher in the “adjective + noun” and “verb + noun” structures than in the “noun + noun” structure. The model with the lowest AIC included focus, accent combination, and adnominal construction, but it had nothing to do with the interaction between focus and accent combination, and the interaction between focus and adnominal construction. The correct prediction rate of the generalized linear mixed model, which incorporates focus, accent combination and adnominal construction as explanatory variables, coupled with individual difference as a random effect, was 79.89%.
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