| Project/Area Number |
23720282
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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
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
MURAO Remi 名古屋大学, 国際言語文化研究科, 准教授 (80454122)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2012
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Keywords | 英語教育 / 第二言語習得 / 音声言語認識 / プロソディ / コーパス / 高頻度品詞連鎖 / 韻律 / テスト開発 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study examined whether Japanese learners of English could recognize the prosodic pattern of a string of part-of-speech (POS-gram) which constitute a phrasal category. The results of prosodic pattern-matching task showed that there was no difference in the performance between advanced and lower level learners in recognizing the prosodic pattern of high and low frequency POS-grams. Native speakers of English (NS) outperformed English learners (NNS) especially on the phrasal categories which appeared frequently in the NS corpus but not in the NNS corpus. Interestingly, non-phrasal categories were recognized at the same level between NS and NNS. The results suggest that although NS and NNS differ in their performance of recognizing prosodic pattern of a phrasal category, it is not a crucial factor that affects listening and reading comprehension skills which divides advanced level learners from lower level learners by their TOIEC scores.
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