Perceptual Dialect Maps of Japan
- "Most Pleasant" Speech Areas -

Maps of Areas Perceived as using the "Most Pleasant" Speech

Informant Group "Most Pleasant" 
Percentages
Color-key		 "Most Pleasant" 
Standardized Scores
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Kanto

Aichi

Gifu

Kanazawa

Kansai

Hiroshima

Fukuoka

Kagoshima

8 Region Means
Percentages 
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8 Region
Standard Deviation 
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This page was created by Daniel Long. The maps were produced using PDQ (Perceptual Dialect Quantifier for Windows 95), designed by Daniel Long and programmed by Isao Onishi.

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