抄録
This study investigated the production of English unstressed vowels by Japanese speakers based on the J-AESOP corpus. Four acoustic features associated with unstressed vowels in English were examined: duration, intensity, fundamental frequency and vowel quality. Comparative analysis with native English speakers' production revealed that the Japanese speakers achieved good control of all the acoustic features except vowel quality, supporting the results of previous studies. Their attainment of nearnative control of duration, intensity and fundamental frequency can be attributed to positive L1 transfer from Japanese. As for vowel quality, the present study showed that the quality of the Japanese speakers' unstressed vowels was more peripheral than that of the native English speakers' because of the difficulty of L2 phoneme acquisition and the influence of orthography.
| 本文言語 | English |
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| ホスト出版物のタイトル | 2015 International Conference Oriental COCOSDA - Held jointly with 2015 Conference on Asian Spoken Language Research and Evaluation, O-COCOSDA/CASLRE 2015 - Proceedings |
| 出版社 | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| ページ | 96-100 |
| ページ数 | 5 |
| ISBN（印刷版） | 9781467382793 |
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| 出版ステータス | Published - 2015 12月 14 |
| イベント | 18th Annual International Conference Oriental COCOSDA, O-COCOSDA 2015 - Held jointly with 2015 Conference on Asian Spoken Language Research and Evaluation, CASLRE 2015 - Shanghai, China 継続期間: 2015 10月 28 → 2015 10月 30 |
Other
| Other | 18th Annual International Conference Oriental COCOSDA, O-COCOSDA 2015 - Held jointly with 2015 Conference on Asian Spoken Language Research and Evaluation, CASLRE 2015 |
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| 国/地域 | China |
| City | Shanghai |
| Period | 15/10/28 → 15/10/30 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- 言語学および言語
- コンピュータ サイエンスの応用
- ソフトウェア
- 言語および言語学