Mutual intelligibility among non-native speakers
| Project/Area Number |
17K17734
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Niigata University |
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Principal Investigator |
O'Neal George 新潟大学, 教育・学生支援機構, 准教授 (10554256)
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| Research Collaborator |
Matsumoto Yumi
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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| Keywords | Phonetics / Intelligibility / Pronunciation / ELF / SLA / Comprehensibility / intelligibility / pronunciation / segmental / suprasegmental / segmental repair / English |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
English usage among students in eastern Asian has become more ubiquitous as universities in Japan internationalize. Intelligible English speech is necessary for such interactions to succeed and the bare minimum requirement to interact with someone else is to be an intelligible English speaker. Although research on the intelligibility of Asian English speakers abounds, one connection that has been understudied is the triangular relationship between pronunciation, intelligibility, and interaction. This research intends to fill that lacunae in the research literature.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
This research is the first that demonstrates that segmental repairs are not used with equal frequency, that the difference in usage could be a reflection of the relative utility of the purpose of each type of segmental repair, that segmental adjustments are not of equal frequency.
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Report
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Research Products
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