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Do the mechanisms of vowel epenthesis in consonant clusters vary according to languages?

Research Project

Project/Area Number 24520434
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Linguistics
Research InstitutionPrefectural University of Hiroshima

Principal Investigator

FUNATSU Seiya  県立広島大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 講師 (30275383)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) FUJIMOTO Masako  早稲田大学, 人間科学学術院, 招聘研究員 (30392541)
IMAIZUMI Satoshi  県立広島大学, 保健福祉学部, 教授 (80122018)
Project Period (FY) 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help
¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Keywords子音クラスタ / 母音添加 / 日本語 / 英語 / 調音運動 / WAVE system / 非母語 / 声帯振動 / 発音 / 舌運動 / 電磁式調音運動測定装置 / 電気式喉頭計
Outline of Final Research Achievements

We investigated the mechanisms of vowel epenthesis in consonant clusters using the WAVE system (NDI Corp.). Tongue tip movements were measured during the articulation of native and non-native consonant clusters in English. The subjects were three Japanese and three English speakers. The speech samples were 3 words: blat, bnat, btat. In these words, consonant cluster /bl/ is native in English, but /bn/ and /bt/ are non-native consonant clusters in English. These words were embedded in a carrier sentence, “Say X.”, and these sentences were uttered 10 times each in random order. Tongue tip displacement from first consonant /b/ to second consonant /n, l, t/ was measured. In comparison with the data of English speakers indicated that the tongue tip displacement in Japanese speakers did not show significant difference from English speakers. We infer that the mechanisms of vowel epenthesis in consonant clusters in Japanese speakers are not different from that in English speakers.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2014 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • 2012 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All 2014 2013 2012

All Journal Article (5 results) (of which Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 2 results) Presentation (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] The mechanisms of vowel epenthesis in non-native consonant clusters.2014

    • Author(s)
      Seiya Funatsu, Masako Fujimoto, Satoshi Imaizumi & Hiroshi Imagawa.
    • Journal Title

      Forum Acusticum

      Volume: 1 Pages: 1-5

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] A study of data normalization measured by an electro-magnetic articulograph.2013

    • Author(s)
      Seiya Funatsu, Masako Fujimoto
    • Journal Title

      International Congress on Acoustics 2013

      Volume: 1 Pages: 1-8

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Mechanisms of vowel epenthesis in consonant clusters: an EMA study.2012

    • Author(s)
      Funatsu, S. & Fujimoto, M.
    • Journal Title

      Acoustics2012

      Volume: 1 Pages: 333-338

    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] How consonants, dialect and speech rate affect vowel devoicing?2012

    • Author(s)
      Masako Fujimoto, Seiya Funatsu, Ichiro Fujimoto.
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of Interspeech 2012

      Volume: 1 Pages: 4-4

    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] EMA 計測値のnormalization の検討 -子音クラスタ調音時の舌運動について-2012

    • Author(s)
      船津誠也、藤本雅子
    • Journal Title

      電子情報通信学会技術研究報告

      Volume: sp2012-89 Pages: 59-64

    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 子音クラスタ構音時のクラスタ構成音素による影響2014

    • Author(s)
      船津誠也
    • Organizer
      日本音声言語医学会
    • Place of Presentation
      アクロス福岡
    • Year and Date
      2014-10-09 – 2014-10-10
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Is the mechanism of vowel epenthesis language specific or language universal?: an EMA study2013

    • Author(s)
      船津誠也
    • Organizer
      International Congress of Linguists
    • Place of Presentation
      スイス、ジュネーブ大学
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 子音クラスタへの挿入母音を如何に知覚するか -ドイツ語母語話者の場合-2013

    • Author(s)
      船津誠也
    • Organizer
      日本音響学会2013年秋季研究発表会
    • Place of Presentation
      豊橋技術科学大学
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report

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Published: 2013-05-31   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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