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Experimental research on the speciality of Japanese in listening to speechsounds.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 04610068
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Psychology
Research InstitutionKitasato University

Principal Investigator

SHIGENO Sumi  Kitasato University College of Libera Aris and Sciences associate professor, 教養部, 助教授 (20162589)

Project Period (FY) 1992 – 1993
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1993)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000)
Fiscal Year 1993: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1992: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
KeywordsStimulus Order Effect / Vowel Perception / Auditor and visual in formation / Auditory Memory / Categorical Memory / Speciality of Japanese / 母語 / プロトタイプ / 母音の弁別 / phonetic memory / auditory memory / カテゴリ化
Research Abstract

This research ams at answering the question, "Why are the Japanese people bad at understanding what the native speakers say? " Several auditory and audio-visual experiments were conducted on this question. The results are listed below.
1. The Japanese listeners perceived the English vowels /i/, /epsilon/, and /a/ corresponing to the Japanese vowels /i/, /e/, and /a/.
2. The stimulus order effects were obtained near the typical Japanese vowels /i/, /e/, and /a/.
3. The stimulus order effects were not obtained around the English vowels /I/, which is not contained in the Japanese vowel phonemic system.
4. The amount of stimulus order effect was greater when typical vowel was put after the ambiguous vowel than when it was put before the ambiguous one.
5. Under audi-visual presentation, the occurrence of vowel contingent effect was influenced by the vowel environment-- that is, when the consonant-vowel (CV) syllable was consisted of C-/u/, there were few vowel contingent effects, although the CV sylable was consisted of C-/i/ or C-/a/, there were great vowel contingent effects.
These reslts were discussed maily based on the hypotheses of prototypes of native language, the characteristics of auditory and phonetic memory, and the integration of auditory and visual information.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1993 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1992 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (13 results)

All Other

All Publications (13 results)

  • [Publications] 重野 純: "母音知覚における文脈効果" 音声言語医学. 33. 204-208 (1992)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Sumi Shigeno: "The interdependence of pitch and temporal judgments by absolute pitch possessors." Perception & Psychophysics. 54. 682-692 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 重野 純: "知覚の機序(鳥居修晃・立花政夫編)第6章" 培風館, 198 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 重野 純: "新編感覚・知覚心理学ハンドブック(大山正他編)第III部7・2" 誠信書房, 1741 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Sumi SHGENO: "Context effects in vowel perception" The Japan Journal of Logopedics and Phoniatrics. 33. 204-208 (1992)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Sumi SHIGENO: "The interdependence of pitch and teporal judgments by absolute pitch possessors." Perception & Psychophysics. 54. 682-692 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Sumi SHIGENO: The integratin process of audiovisual information in speech perception. Mechansms of perception. (Oyama, T.and Tachibana, M.eds., 198 pages) Chapter 6, 90-109 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Sumi SHIGENO: Context effects in phonetic perception. Handbook of psychology of sensation and perception (new edition), (OYAMA, T.et al., eds., 1741 pages), Section III 7.2, 1128-1134 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 重野 純: "母音知覚における文脈効果" 音声言語医学. 33. 204-208 (1992)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Sumi Shigeno: "The interdependence of pitch and temporal judgments by absolute pitch possessors." Perception & Psychophysics. 54. 682-692 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 重野 純: "知覚の機序(鳥居修晃・立花政夫編)第6章" 培風館, 198 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 重野 純: "新編感覚・知覚心理学ハンドブック(大山正他編)第III部7・2" 誠信書房, 1741 (1994)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] SUMI SHIGENO: "Effect of protolypes of vowels on speech perception in Japanese and English." Proceedings of the 1992 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. 2. 1111-1114 (1992)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1992-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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