| Project/Area Number |
25370448
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Ritsumeikan University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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| Keywords | アメリカ英語 / 母音 / 鼻音 / 訓練 / 同定 / 弁別 / 日本語話者 / attention / training / coda nasal / vowel / identification / discrimination / 英語 / 知覚訓練 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The accuracy with which native Japanese listeners identified and discriminated American English vowels and coda nasals was assessed before and after training. The listeners were divided into four groups, each of which received a different type of training. Two of the four groups were vowel-oriented; one of these groups received vowel identification training (VI), while the other received vowel discrimination training (VD). The other two groups were nasal-oriented. One of the nasal-oriented groups received nasal identification training (NI), and the other received nasal discrimination training (ND).
The results revealed that the VI group made more gains in its ability to identify vowels than the other groups after training. No group made significant gains to discriminate vowels regardless of the training they received. All the four groups made a significant improvement in identifying and discriminating nasals, and no significant difference among the groups was observed.
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