| Project/Area Number |
22520593
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Nagoya Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
SHIMIZU Katsumasa 名古屋学院大学, 大学院・外国語学研究科, 名誉教授 (10083792)
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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 |
¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Keywords | 英語 / 国際共通語 / 閉鎖子音 / VOT / アジア諸言語 / 音声分析 / VOT(Voice Onset Time) / 国際共通語としての英語 / 韓国語 / タイ語 / 中国語(北京語) / VOT(声帯振動の開始時間) / 知覚上の近似性 |
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| Research Abstract |
The present study is mainly concerned with examining phonetic characteristics of English as a lingua franca, specifically examining the acquisition of English stops by the speakers of Asian languages and their phonetic characteristics. The languages under the investigation are Korean, Chinese (Mandarin) and Thai, and the study examined the characteristics of the stops of these languages and English acquired as a lingua franca. Through the acoustic investigation, the result suggested that voice onset time (VOT) functions for distinguishing voicing categories in these languages, and the proximity of VOT values among them, termed as assimilatory transfer, is the major feature in learning stop consonants in English as a lingua franca.
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