2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Precise measurement of tongue movement in consonant clusters
Project/Area Number |
15K02524
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Linguistics
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Research Institution | Prefectural University of Hiroshima |
Principal Investigator |
FUNATSU Seiya 県立広島大学, 学術情報センター, 准教授 (30275383)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
藤本 雅子 早稲田大学, 人間科学学術院, その他(招聘研究員) (30392541)
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Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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Keywords | 調音運動 / 子音クラスタ / 非母語 / 下顎 / 舌先 / 英語 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We investigated the difference of articulatory movement between native and non-native consonant clusters. English has consonant clusters, but Japanese does not. Therefore, speakers chosen for comparison were native English and native Japanese speakers. Speech samples were 4 words. We measured the movement of the tongue tip, the mandible and the lower lip by WAVE system (NDI corp.). There were remarkable differences in the mandible and the lower lip movement between native and non-native clusters in English speakers. Namely, with the non-native clusters the difference of the articulatory movement in the mandible and the lower lip of every utterance was quite large, however in native clusters the difference was quite small. For Japanese speakers it was large for all clusters. Thus, it was revealed that the articulatory movement of the mandible and the lower lip in non-native clusters was not stable in native English speakers, even though English has consonant clusters.
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Free Research Field |
音声科学
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