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An experimental study on "Sensitive Period"of foreign speech acquisition

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17202012
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Foreign language education
Research InstitutionAdvanced Telecommunications Research Institute International

Principal Investigator

YAMADA Reiko  Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, 認知情報科学研究所, 主幹研究員 (30395090)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KATO Hiroaki  株式会社国際電気通信基礎技術研究所, 認知情報科学研究所, 主任研究員 (20374093)
ADACHI Takahiro  株式会社国際電気通信基礎技術研究所, 認知情報科学研究所, 研究技術員 (50374111)
KUBO Rieko  株式会社国際電気通信基礎技術研究所, 認知情報科学研究所, 研究員 (50395092)
YAMADA Tsuneo  独立行政法人メディア教育開発センター, 研究開発部, 教授 (70182540)
IKUMA Yuko  株式会社国際電気通信基礎技術研究所, 認知情報科学研究所, 研究員 (10426645)
TAJIMA Keiichi  法政大学, 文学部心理学科, 准教授 (70366821)
KOMAKI Ryo  株式会社国際電気通信基礎技術研究所, 認知情報科学研究所, 研究員 (80374114)
OKIHARA Katsuaki  神戸大学, 国際コミュニケーションセンター, 教授 (10094062)
HAYASHI Ryoko  神戸大学, 大学院国際文化学研究科, 准教授 (20347785)
ISHIKAWA Shinichiro  神戸大学, 国際コミュニケーションセンター, 准教授 (90320994)
HARADA Yasunari  早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 教授 (80189711)
WATANABE Hideyuki  株式会社国際電気通信基礎技術研究所, 音声言語コミュニケーション研究所, 研究員 (40395091)
Research Collaborator MURASAKI Chizu  神戸大学, 発達科学部附属住吉小学校, 教諭
Project Period (FY) 2005 – 2008
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2008)
Budget Amount *help
¥44,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥34,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥10,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥6,890,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,590,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥13,130,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,030,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥13,130,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,030,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥11,050,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,550,000)
Keywords第二言語学習 / 臨界期 / 音声言語 / 言語習得 / 音声知覚 / 語彙 / 年齢効果 / 外国語 / 第二言語習得 / 音韻 / 韻律 / WBT
Research Abstract

日本国内の小学校児童を主対象として、コンピュータを用いて等質化した英語学習を行い、年齢効果を検証した。その際、従来の言語学習の臨界期仮説で対象としている言語を総体としてとらえるのではなく、音韻、リズム、語彙といった要素に分けて学習を行った。その結果、小学生において有意な学習効果がみられ、効果、学年、要素の間に交互作用があり、外国語の学習において要素によって学習に適した年齢が異なることが明らかになった。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2008 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2007 Annual Research Report
  • 2006 Annual Research Report
  • 2005 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (49 results)

All 2009 2008 2007 2006 Other

All Journal Article (26 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 14 results) Presentation (19 results) Book (2 results) Remarks (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Training the brain to weight speech cues differently2009

    • Author(s)
      Ylinen, S., Uther, M., Latvala, A., Vepsalainen, S., Iverson, P., Akahane-Yamada, R., & Naatanen, R.
    • Journal Title

      The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 21(in press)

    • Related Report
      2008 Final Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Training the brain to weight speech cues differently2009

    • Author(s)
      Sari Ylinen, Maria Uther, Antti Latvala, Sara Vepsalainen, Paul Iverson, Reiko Akahane-Yamada, Risto Naatanen
    • Journal Title

      the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (in press)

    • Related Report
      2008 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Acoustic and perceptual similarity of Japanese and American English vowels2008

    • Author(s)
      Nishi, K., Strange, W., Akahane-Yamada, R., Kubo, R., & Trent-Brown, S.A.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 124(1)

      Pages: 576-588

    • Related Report
      2008 Final Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] The first years in an L2-speaking environment : A comparison of Japanese children and adults learning American English2008

    • Author(s)
      Aoyama, k., Guion, S.G., Flege, J.E., Yamada, T., & Akahane-Yamada, R.
    • Journal Title

      International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 46

      Pages: 61-90

    • Related Report
      2008 Final Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Influences of speech compression on perception and learning of English speech by native speakers of Japanese2008

    • Author(s)
      Adachi, T., Akahane-Yamada, R., & Yamada, T.
    • Journal Title

      Educational Technology Research 31(1-2)

      Pages: 41-48

    • NAID

      110007004869

    • Related Report
      2008 Final Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Acoustic and perceptual similarity of Japanese and American English vowels2008

    • Author(s)
      Nishi, K., Strange, W., Akahane-Yamada, R., Kubo, R., Trent-Brown, S. A.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 124(1)

      Pages: 576-588

    • Related Report
      2008 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] The first years in an L2-speaking environment : A comparison of Japanese children and adults learning American English2008

    • Author(s)
      Aoyama, k., Guion, S. G., Flege, J. E., Yamada, T., Akahane-Yamada, R.
    • Journal Title

      International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 46

      Pages: 61-90

    • Related Report
      2008 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Influences of speech compression on perception and learning of English speech by native speakers of Japanese2008

    • Author(s)
      Adachi, T., Akahane-Yamada, R., Yamada, T.
    • Journal Title

      Educational Technology Research 31(1-2)

      Pages: 41-48

    • NAID

      110007004869

    • Related Report
      2008 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Training English listeners to perceive phonemic length contrasts in Japanese.2008

    • Author(s)
      Keiichi Tajima, Hiroaki Kato, Amanda Rothwell, Reiko Akahane-Yamada, and Kevin Munhall.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Acoustical Society of America. 123

      Pages: 397-397

    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Learning non-native speech contrasts.2008

    • Author(s)
      Reiko Akahane-Yamada
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of PCC2008. (CD-ROM)

    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 研究の成果 【4】 ATR CALL2007

    • Author(s)
      山田玲子
    • Journal Title

      平成18年度 Super Englig Language High School研究開発実子報告書(第2年次) (奈良市立一条高等学校)

      Pages: 79-90

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Tools for speech perception, production, and training studies : Web-based second language training system, and a speech resynthesis system.2006

    • Author(s)
      Reiko Akahane-Yamada, Takahiro Adachi, Hideki Kawahara
    • Journal Title

      The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 120,No.5,Pt. 2 of 2

      Pages: 3072-3072

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] STRAIGHT as a research tool for L2 study : How to manipulate segmental and supra-segmental features.2006

    • Author(s)
      Hideki Kawahara, Reiko Akahane-Yamada
    • Journal Title

      The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 120,No.5,Pt. 2 of 2

      Pages: 3137-3137

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Effects of learners' L2 proficiency and acoustic/semantic contexts of stimuli on the phoneme identification training.2006

    • Author(s)
      Yuko Ikuma, Reiko Akahane-Yamada
    • Journal Title

      The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 120,No.5,Pt. 2 of 2

      Pages: 3137-3137

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Identification of English /r/ and /l/ in noise : The effects of baseline performance.2006

    • Author(s)
      Kazuo Ueda, Ryo Komaki, Takahiro Adachi
    • Journal Title

      The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 120,No.5,Pt. 2 of 2

      Pages: 3137-3137

    • NAID

      110006385776

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Effects of exposure and training on perception of Japanese length contrasts by English listeners.2006

    • Author(s)
      Keiichi Tajima, Hiroaki Kato, Amanda Rothwell, Reiko Akahane-Yamada, Kevin G.Munhall
    • Journal Title

      The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 120, No.5, Pt. 2 of 2

      Pages: 3209-3209

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Categorization of phonemic length contrasts in Japanese by native and non-native listeners.2006

    • Author(s)
      Hiroaki Kato, Keiichi Tajima, Amanda Rothwell, Reiko Akahane-Yamada, Kevin G.Munhall
    • Journal Title

      The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 120, No.5, Pt. 2 of 2

      Pages: 3210-3210

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 日本語母語話者による英語音声の知覚と学習に与える音声圧縮の影響2006

    • Author(s)
      足立隆弘, 山田玲子, 山田恒夫
    • Journal Title

      日本教育工学会論文誌 30(2)

      Pages: 93-101

    • NAID

      110006794605

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Intelligibility of English phonemes in noise for native and non-native listeners.2006

    • Author(s)
      Takahiro Adachi, Reiko Akahane-Yamada, Kazuo Ueda
    • Journal Title

      Acoustical Science and Technology 27,5

      Pages: 285-289

    • NAID

      110004781830

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] ATR CALL単語総合テストの結果2006

    • Author(s)
      山田玲子
    • Journal Title

      Super English Language High School奈良市立一条高等学校、平成17年度研究開発実施報告書

      Pages: 59-63

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Influences of speech compression on perception and learning of English speech by native speakers of Japanese.

    • Author(s)
      Takahiro Adachi, Reiko Akahane-Yamada, Tsuneo Yamada.
    • Journal Title

      Educational Technology Research 31(印刷中)

    • NAID

      110007004869

    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] The first year in an L2-speaking environment : A comparison of Japanese children and adults learning American English.

    • Author(s)
      Katsura Aoyama, Suzan G. Guion, James E. Flege, Tsuneo Yamada, and Reiko Akahane-Yamada.
    • Journal Title

      International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (印刷中)

    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Acoustic similarity of Japanese and American English vowels.

    • Author(s)
      Kanae Nishi, Winifred Strange, Reiko Akahane-Yamada, Rieko Kubo, and Sonja A. Trent-Brown.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Acoustical Society of America. (印刷中)

    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Training the brain to weight speech cues differently.

    • Author(s)
      Sari Ylinen, Maria Uther, Anti Latvala, Sara Vespalainen, Paul Iverson, Reiko Akahane-Yamada, and Risto Naatanen.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Cognitive Neuro Science. (査読中)

    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Identification of English /r/ and /l/ in noise : The effects of baseline performance.

    • Author(s)
      Kazuo Ueda, Reiko Akanahe, Yamada, Ryo Komaki, Takahiro Adachi
    • Journal Title

      日本音響学会英文誌 (印刷中)

    • NAID

      110006385776

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Neural Processes Involved with Perception of Nonnative Durational Contrasts.

    • Author(s)
      Akiko Callan
    • Journal Title

      Neuro Report (査読中)

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 英語音声学習環境をデザインする2008

    • Author(s)
      山田 玲子
    • Organizer
      日本英語学会・第26回大会、シンポジウム「CALL による英語音声学習への試み-デザイン・理論・実践を通して-」
    • Place of Presentation
      筑波大学
    • Year and Date
      2008-11-15
    • Related Report
      2008 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] 英語音声学習環境をデザインする2008

    • Author(s)
      山田玲子
    • Organizer
      日本英語学会 第26回大会、シンポジウム「CALLによる英語音声学習への試み-デザイン・理論・実践を通して-」
    • Place of Presentation
      筑波大学
    • Year and Date
      2008-11-15
    • Related Report
      2008 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 音声に重点を置いた英語学習支援システムの開発と発音評価2008

    • Author(s)
      駒木 亮, 山田 玲子
    • Organizer
      日本教育工学会第24回大会、課題研究2「教育工学分野における新しい技術を活用したシステム開発の展開」
    • Place of Presentation
      上越教育大学
    • Year and Date
      2008-10-13
    • Related Report
      2008 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] 音声に重点を置いた英語学習支援システムの開発と発音評価2008

    • Author(s)
      駒木亮, 山田玲子
    • Organizer
      日本教育工学会第24回大会 課題研究2「教育工学分野における新しい技術を活用したシステム開発の展開」
    • Place of Presentation
      上越教育大学
    • Year and Date
      2008-10-13
    • Related Report
      2008 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Training of English vowel perception by Finnish speakers to focus on spectral rather than durational cues2008

    • Author(s)
      Uther, M., Ylinen, S., Latvala, A., Akahane-Yamada, R., & Iverson, P.
    • Organizer
      the 155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
    • Place of Presentation
      Paris, France
    • Year and Date
      2008-07-03
    • Related Report
      2008 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] Learning non-native speech contrasts.2008

    • Author(s)
      山田玲子
    • Organizer
      The 8th phonetics Conference of China and International Symposium on Phonetic Frontiers, Special Session entitled "Second Language Learning and Speech Information Processing."
    • Place of Presentation
      北京
    • Year and Date
      2008-04-20
    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] International Sharing of Learning Content and its Metadata in Language Education2008

    • Author(s)
      Yamada, T.
    • Organizer
      WorldCALL 2008
    • Place of Presentation
      Fukuoka, Japan
    • Related Report
      2008 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] Learning non-native speech contrasts2008

    • Author(s)
      Akahane-Yamada,R.
    • Organizer
      The 8th Phonetics Conference of China and the International Symposium on Phonetic Frontiers. Celebration of Professor WU Zongji's 100th Birthday
    • Place of Presentation
      Beijing, China
    • Related Report
      2008 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] Training English listeners to perceive phonemic length contrasts in Japanese2008

    • Author(s)
      Tajima, K., Kato, H., Rothwell, A., Akahane-Yamada, R., & Munhall, K.G.
    • Organizer
      J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123 397
    • Related Report
      2008 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] Learning non-native speech contrasts2008

    • Author(s)
      Reiko Akahane-Yamada
    • Organizer
      The 8^<th> Phonetics Conference of China and the International Symposium on Phonetic Frontiers-Celebration of Professor WU Zongji's 100^<th> Birthday
    • Place of Presentation
      Beijing, China
    • Related Report
      2008 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] International Sharing of Learning Content and its Metadata in Language Education2008

    • Author(s)
      Tsuneo Yamada
    • Organizer
      WorldCALL 2008 (Proceedings, d-016. 4 pages)
    • Place of Presentation
      Fukuoka, Japan
    • Related Report
      2008 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 第二言語の音声学習 : 基礎研究と教材への応用-ボトムアップメソードの重要性とATR CALL-(招聘講演)2007

    • Author(s)
      山田玲子
    • Organizer
      日本SGIソリューション・キュービック・フォーラム
    • Place of Presentation
      ウェスティンホテル東京(東京都)
    • Year and Date
      2007-06-15
    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 第二言語の音声学習研究と教材への応用(招聘講演)2007

    • Author(s)
      山田 玲子
    • Organizer
      外国語教育メディア学会(LET)関西支部2007年春季研究大会
    • Place of Presentation
      武庫川女子大学
    • Year and Date
      2007-05-12
    • Related Report
      2008 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] 第二言語の音声学習研究と教材への応用(招聘講演)2007

    • Author(s)
      山田玲子
    • Organizer
      外国語教育メディア学会(LET)関西支部2007年春季研究大会
    • Place of Presentation
      武庫川女子大学(兵庫県)
    • Year and Date
      2007-05-12
    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Effects of learners' L2 proficiency and acoustic/semantic contexts of stimuli on the phoneme identification training2006

    • Author(s)
      Ikuma, Y., & Akahane-Yamada, R.
    • Organizer
      4th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan
    • Place of Presentation
      Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
    • Year and Date
      2006-11-30
    • Related Report
      2008 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] Categorization of phonemic length contrasts in Japanese by native and non-native listeners2006

    • Author(s)
      Kato, H., Tajima, K., Rothwell, A., Akahane-Yamada, R., & Munhall, K.G.
    • Organizer
      4th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan
    • Place of Presentation
      Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
    • Year and Date
      2006-11-30
    • Related Report
      2008 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] Effects of exposure and training on perception of Japanese length contrasts by English listeners2006

    • Author(s)
      Tajima, K., Kato, H., Rothwell, A., Akahane-Yamada, R., & Munhall, K.G.
    • Organizer
      4th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan
    • Place of Presentation
      Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
    • Year and Date
      2006-11-30
    • Related Report
      2008 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] STRAIGHT as a research tool for L2 study : How to manipulate segmental and supra-segmental features2006

    • Author(s)
      Kawahara, H., & Akahane-Yamada, R.
    • Organizer
      4th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan
    • Place of Presentation
      Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
    • Year and Date
      2006-11-29
    • Related Report
      2008 Final Research Report
  • [Presentation] Tools for speech perception, production, and training studies : Web-based second language training system, and a speech resynthesis syste2006

    • Author(s)
      Akahane-Yamada, R., Adachi, T., & Kawahara, H.
    • Organizer
      4th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan
    • Place of Presentation
      Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
    • Year and Date
      2006-11-29
    • Related Report
      2008 Final Research Report
  • [Book] こどもからはじめる英語科学的上達法2006

    • Author(s)
      山田 玲子
    • Total Pages
      126
    • Publisher
      講談社
    • Related Report
      2008 Final Research Report
  • [Book] こどもからはじめる英語科学的上達法2006

    • Author(s)
      ATR人間情報科学研究所(山田 玲子)
    • Total Pages
      126
    • Publisher
      講談社
    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 山田 玲子, 研究の成果4 : ATR CALL, 平成18年度Super English Language High School,研究開発実施報告書(第2年次)奈良市立一条高等学校, 2007, 79-90

    • Related Report
      2008 Final Research Report
  • [Remarks] 山田 玲子, ATR CALL 単語総合テストの結果, 平成17年度Super English Language High School 研究開発実施報告書, 奈良市立一条高等学校, 2006, 59-63

    • Related Report
      2008 Final Research Report

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