Acoustic, articulatory and perceptual analyses of English Rhythm and Intonation in order to teach Japanese learners of English
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22520412
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Linguistics
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Research Institution | Showa University of Music |
Principal Investigator |
ERICKSON Donna 昭和音楽大学, 音楽学部, 非常勤講師 (80331586)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MORI Youko 同志社大学, 言語文化センター, 嘱託講師 (50441192)
SHIBUYA Yoshiho 金沢医科大学, 一般教育機構, 教授 (90154260)
末光 厚夫 北陸先端科学技術大学院大学, 情報科学研究科, 助教 (20422199)
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Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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Keywords | 音声学 articulation / rhythm / intonation / acoustics / American English / Japanese English / 英語のリズム / 日本人学び者 / 調音 / 音響 / 顎 / 音声学 |
Research Abstract |
Natural sounding prosody (rhythm and intonation) is extremely important for communication in a second language. Based on electromagnetic articulographic recordings (EMA) conducted at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST, Ishikawa Prefecture) for intermediate level Japanese speakers of English and American speakers of English, it was reported that the phonological metrical structure (rhythm/stress patterns) of an English utterance match the patterns of jaw movement, as well as the corresponding resonance frequency patterns of the vocal tract, specifically the first formant (F1) patterns; however, the Japanese speakers’ patterns of jaw opening/F1 did not always show consistent matches with the rhythm pattern of the utterance. The findings about articulation of rhythm are currently being applied towardimproving teaching of American English rhythm to Japanese learners of English.
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Report
(4 results)
Research Products
(82 results)
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[Journal Article] Neutralizing differences in jaw displacement for English vowels2013
Author(s)
Williams, J.C., Erickson, D., Ozaki, Y., Suemitsu, A. Minematsu, N., Fujimura, O.
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Journal Title
Proc. of International Congress of Acoustics.
Volume: 24
Pages: 1-6
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[Journal Article] Effect of non-native rhythm on native listeners comprehension of spoken utterances.2012
Author(s)
Menezes, C., Erickson, D., Whalen, D.H., Ito, T., Mori, Y. and Hori, T.
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Journal Title
Acoustical Society of Japan, Fall meeting
Pages: 322-326
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[Journal Article] Comparison of tongue position during production of English non-stressed vowels uttered by native English/Japanese speakers2012
Author(s)
Hatano, H., Kitamura, T., Nakamura, J., Hayashi, R., and Erickson, D.
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Journal Title
Acoustical Society of Japan, Fall meeting
Pages: 315-316
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[Journal Article] Effect of non-native rhythm on native listeners comprehension of spoken utterances2012
Author(s)
Menezes, C., Erickson, D., Whalen, D.H., Ito, T., Mori, Y. and Hori, T.
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Journal Title
Proceedings of Acoustical Society of Japan, Fall meeting
Volume: 2012
Pages: 322-326
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[Journal Article] Comparison of tongue position during production of English non-stressed vowels uttered by native English/Japanese speakers,2012
Author(s)
Hatano, H., Kitamura, T., Nakamura, J., Hayashi, R., and Erickson, D.
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Journal Title
Proceedings of Acoustical Society of Japan, Fall meeting
Volume: 2012
Pages: 315-316
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[Journal Article] Perceptual evaluation of soprano voices in terms of desirable characteristics of singing voice.2012
Author(s)
Haneishi, E., Saito, T., Erickson, D., Sakakibara, K., and Kishimoto, H
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Journal Title
Acoustical Society of Japan, spring meeting
Volume: 2012
Pages: 623-624
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[Journal Article] Comparative Eletromagnetic Articulographic (EMA) study of English rhythm as produced by native and non-native speakers.2011
Author(s)
Erickson, D., Suemitsu, A., Shibuya, Y., Lee, S., and Tanaka, Y. (2011)
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Journal Title
Acoustical Society of America, Fall Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Volume: 130.4.2.2
Pages: 2567-2567
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[Journal Article] Interactive component extraction from fEEG, fNIRS and peripheral biosignals for affective brain-machine interfacing paradigms2011
Author(s)
Rutkowski, T.M., Tanaka, T., Chichocki, A., Erickson, D., Cao, J., Mandic, D.P
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Journal Title
Computers in Human Behavior
Volume: 27
Pages: 1512-1518
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Peer Reviewed
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[Journal Article] Processing of infant-directed speech by adults2011
Author(s)
Matsuda, Y-T, Ueno, K., Waggoner, R.A., Erickson, D, Shimura, Y, Tanaka, T., Cheng, K, Mazuka, R
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Journal Title
NeuroImage
Volume: 54
Pages: 611-621
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Peer Reviewed
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[Journal Article] Comparison of emotion perception among different cultures2011
Author(s)
Dang, J., Li, A., Erickson, D., Suemitsu, A., Akagi, M., Sakuraba, K., Minematsu, N., Hirose K
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Journal Title
Acoustical Science and Technology
Volume: 31
Pages: 394-402
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Peer Reviewed
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[Journal Article] Comparison of emotion perception among differentcultures2010
Author(s)
Dang, J., Li, A., Erickson, D., Suemitsu, A., Akagi, M., Sakuraba, K., Minematsu, N., Hirose K.
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Journal Title
Acoustical Science andTechnology
Volume: 31, 6
Pages: 394-402
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[Presentation] Comparative Eletromagnetic Articulographic (EMA) study of English rhythm as produced by native and non-native speakers2011
Author(s)
Erickson, D., Suemitsu, A., Shibuya, Y., Lee, S., Tanaka, Y
Organizer
Acoustical Society of America, Fall Meeting
Place of Presentation
San Diego, CA
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[Presentation] 英語のリズムの音声的実現における日英語話者間の相違2011
Author(s)
Mori, Y., Hori, T., Erickson, D., Shibuya, Y., Suemitsu, A.
Organizer
Proceeding of the 25^<th> Phonetics Society of Japan fall meeting
Place of Presentation
University of shimane
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[Presentation] Where's the rhythm?2011
Author(s)
Menezes, C., Erickson, D., Lee, S., Suemitsu, A., Fujimura, O
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Speech Production workshop
Place of Presentation
Beckman Institute, Champaign-Urbana, IL
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[Presentation] American English Rhythm.2011
Author(s)
Erickson, D., Shibuya, Y., Suemitsu.A.
Organizer
The 2011 Symposium on Modeling of Speech & Audio-Visual Mechanism
Place of Presentation
Kanazawa, Japan
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