Major Of Japanese Language's Prosodic Features Of Interrogative Sentences Intonation For University Students

Intonation plays a crucial role in the elements of influence on nature.The intonation in the narrow sense refers to the end of sentence intonation.In the end of sentence intonations in Japanese,the end of sentence interrogative intonation is an important learning item for learning Japanese.Regarding the features of Chinese Japanese learners' interrogative sentences intonation,Previous researches mentioned that when the words at the end of the sentence are head-height and medium-height accent words,the Chinese learners can not pronounce the final intonation,and the end-of-sentence pitch tends to decline.But,the targets of the previous researches were Chinese international students,and their Japanese learning backgrounds and dialects were not unified.So,whether the features are unique to the learners is not clear.In addition,Whether the learner's Japanese sounds naturally is determined by the evaluation of the native speaker,so it is important to clarify the Japanese's evaluation.This study uses the sound analysis software Praat,which mainly analyzes the speech pitch of Chinese college students major in Japanese,and allows native speakers to evaluate the learner's voices.The following results were found through experiments.1.In the interrogative sentence intonation that head-height and medium-height accent words in the end of the sentence,the learners presented a “rising-declining-rising” pitch pattern as and the native speaker did,which shows that Japanese-speaking college students have correctly learned such interrogative sentence intonation.In addition,there is a tendency that the learner's interrogative sentence intonation increase is not enough.However,it is clear through the native speakers' evaluation that the increase in the range of the rise of the native speaker does not affect the naturalness.2.Learners who fail to correctly learn the interrogative intonation of the head-height and medium-height words are because they do not correctly learn the accent of the words,or because they fail to present a rising tone.