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The Building of a Learner Corpus of Japanese Speakers' Pronunciation of English and Descriptive Studies

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26370576
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field English linguistics
Research InstitutionChuo University

Principal Investigator

Makino Takehiko  中央大学, 経済学部, 教授 (00269482)

Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywords英語 / 音声 / 日本人学習者 / コーパス / 韻律 / 中間言語 / 日本人英語学習者 / 分節音 / 聞き取り / プロソディー / ラベリング体系 / 文セット / 発音 / 日本語話者 / イントネーション変異表記体系
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The 800 utterances selected from English Read by Japanese speech database were phonetically transcribed to produce the segmental labeling. This comprised the segmental part of ERJ Phonetic corpus, and the data was analyzed to describe the segmental characteristics of Japanese speakers’ pronunciation of English, although the survey was tentative because the corpus lacked the prosodic labeling.
In the meantime, a new four-tier labeling system was devised to add the prosodic labeling to the corpus. The new system was based on the proposal by Post and Delais-Roussarie (2006).
Also, a new diagnostic sentence set was produced by adapting the short and amusing passage used in Labov (1966). The recording with this passage should contain more animated and varied prosody, in contrast to the ERJ set, which was a collection of unrelated single sentences and could have encouraged monotonous reading.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All 2018 2017 2015 2014

All Presentation (7 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results,  Invited: 1 results)

  • [Presentation] Intonation of Japanese speakers’ English: A preliminary study with a short diagnostic passage2018

    • Author(s)
      Takehiko Makino
    • Organizer
      The 4th Belgrade International Meeting of English Phoneticians
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Intelligibility of Japanese-accented pronunciation of English: An analysis based on English Read by Japanese database2017

    • Author(s)
      Takehiko Makino
    • Organizer
      The 9th annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching conference
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 英語プロソディーの形式~日本語との対比も交えながら~2015

    • Author(s)
      牧野武彦
    • Organizer
      外国語発音習得研究会冬季合宿
    • Place of Presentation
      和倉温泉観光会館(石川県七尾市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-12-20
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Transcription and Description of Interlanguage Prosody in Japanese Speakers’ English2015

    • Author(s)
      Takehiko Makino
    • Organizer
      Accents 2016: 9th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English
    • Place of Presentation
      Lodz, Poland
    • Year and Date
      2015-12-03
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] English Read by Japanese Corpus2015

    • Author(s)
      Takehiko Makino
    • Organizer
      Workshop on Phonetic Learner Corpus (18th ICPhS satellite)
    • Place of Presentation
      Glasgow, UK
    • Year and Date
      2015-08-12
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] English Read by Japanese 音声コーパスによる日本語話者の英語発音の記述とその作成上の諸問題2014

    • Author(s)
      牧野武彦
    • Organizer
      外国語発音習得研究会冬合宿
    • Place of Presentation
      秋田県仙北市
    • Year and Date
      2014-12-20 – 2014-12-22
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Vowel and consonant patterns of Japanese speakers’ English: A study based on English Read by Japanese Phonetic Corpus2014

    • Author(s)
      Takehiko Makino
    • Organizer
      3rd Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English
    • Place of Presentation
      チューリヒ(スイス)
    • Year and Date
      2014-08-24 – 2014-08-27
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2019-03-29  

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