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Compilation and descriptive studies of a corpus of Japanese speakers' pronunciation of English

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K00663
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 02080:English linguistics-related
Research InstitutionChuo University

Principal Investigator

Makino Takehiko  中央大学, 経済学部, 教授 (00269482)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywords英語発音 / 日本語話者 / 分節音 / プロソディー / 診断用パッセージ / コーパス / 発音学習教材 / 音声収集 / 音連続 / リズム拍 / 音節 / ピッチ変動幅 / 日本人英語 / 音声 / 中間言語
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Because the audio data extracted from the "English Speech Database Read by Japanese Students (UME-ERJ)" used in my previous Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research project has some deficiencies which make it inappropriate for my goal of describing the characteristics of Japanese speakers' pronunciation of English, I planned to collect audio data independently and conduct descriptive research in this project. In order to obtain reasonable data on prosody, it was necessary to have contextualized passages rather than isolated sentences, so we analyzed the contents of several existing pronunciation diagnostic English passages and selected an appropriate one. However, due to the influence of the COVID-19 disaster, it became impossible to record audio face-to-face, and there were also problems with the recruitment of subjects, so it was not possible for me to proceed to the stage of collecting voice data.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

英語学習者の発音の収集は個別の研究者が個別の目的のために独自の材料を用いて行われるのが常であり、全体的な特徴を捉えるようなデータを集めるプロジェクトの例は少ない。日本で行われた代表的なものは「日本人学生による読み上げ英語音声データベース (UME-ERJ)」であるが、含まれる文は全て孤立文のため、文脈に応じて変化するプロソディーの研究には不向きである。本プロジェクトで選定した材料はパッセージであり文脈があるため、これを用いて収録した音声はプロソディー研究に適している。加えて分節音も網羅的に含むため、分節音・プロソディーを含めた全体的な音声的特徴の研究に用いることができる。

Report

(7 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (12 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (7 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Speech Assessment via Read-Alouds: A Critical Analysis of Diagnostic Passages2022

    • Author(s)
      Makino Takehiko
    • Journal Title

      Theoretical and Practical Developments in English Speech Assessment, Research, and Training

      Volume: 1 Pages: 87-105

    • DOI

      10.1007/978-3-030-98218-8_6

    • ISBN
      9783030982171, 9783030982188
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Geoff Lindsey, English After RP: Standard British Pronunciation Today2021

    • Author(s)
      MAKINO Takehiko
    • Journal Title

      Studies in English Literature

      Volume: 98 Issue: 0 Pages: 173-180

    • DOI

      10.20759/elsjp.98.0_173

    • NAID

      130008145840

    • ISSN
      0039-3649, 2424-2136
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Pronunciation teaching2021

    • Author(s)
      Jane Setter and Takehiko Makino
    • Journal Title

      Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics

      Volume: - Pages: 527-550

    • DOI

      10.1017/9781108644198.022

    • ISBN
      9781108644198, 9781108495738, 9781108448598
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Comparison between the Machine Phonetic Transcriber of Allosaurus and an Expert Phonetician2023

    • Author(s)
      Sun Haitong , 高 英翔 , 峯松 信明 , 牧野 武彦 , 中西 のりこ
    • Organizer
      第 37 回日本音声学会全国大会
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] How to handle nonstandard peculiarities in the audio examples of pronunciation teaching materials2022

    • Author(s)
      Takehiko Makino
    • Organizer
      6th Belgrade International Meeting of English Phoneticians
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 英語辞書電子版の発音音声の品質について2022

    • Author(s)
      牧野武彦
    • Organizer
      大学英語教育学会英語辞書研究会ワークショップ
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Word-based teaching of English pronunciation and development of learning materials2020

    • Author(s)
      Takehiko Makino
    • Organizer
      5th Belgrade International Meeting of English Phoneticians (online)
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Segmental patterns and prosodic positions in Japanese speakers’ English2019

    • Author(s)
      Takehiko Makino
    • Organizer
      11st Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching conference
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Diagnostic passages for the pronunciation of English: From the perspectives of collecting Japanese speakers’ speech data2019

    • Author(s)
      Takehiko Makino
    • Organizer
      13th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Prosodic patterns in English Read by Japanese Phonetic Corpus: An interim report2018

    • Author(s)
      Takehiko Makino
    • Organizer
      10th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching conference
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] 大人の英語発音講座〈新装復刊〉2023

    • Author(s)
      清水 あつ子、斎藤 弘子、高木 直之、小林 篤志、牧野 武彦、内田 洋子、杉本 淳子、平山 真奈美
    • Total Pages
      196
    • Publisher
      研究社
    • ISBN
      9784327441227
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 文レベルで徹底 英語発音トレーニング2021

    • Author(s)
      牧野 武彦
    • Total Pages
      220
    • Publisher
      研究社
    • ISBN
      9784327453060
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2025-01-30  

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