Acoustic Examination of Acquisition of Second Language Prosody and Modeling of Second Language Prosody Acquisition

2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19520369
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: KONDO Mariko Waseda University, 国際教養学術院, 教授 (00329054)
• Project Period (FY): 2007 – 2009
• Keywords: 音声生成 / 発話リズム / アクセント / 二言語韻律習得

Research Abstract

This study investigated acquisition of second language prosody between Japanese and English. In Japanese speakers' English utterances, most Japanese speakers did not reduce vowels in unstressed syllables. However, for English speakers' utterances in Japanese there was a tendency for accented vowels to be longer as well as higher pitched. English speakers also showed a clear tendency to use word accents in a phrase, which caused downstep. This phrase intonation was distinctly different from Japanese phrase intonation by native Japanese speakers ; especially when a phrase consisted of all non-accented words whose phrase intonation simply showed natural declination.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Phonetic Aspects of Content Design in AESOP (Asian English Speech cOrpus Project), 2009 Oriental COCOSDA International Conference on Speech Database and Assessments (2009)
  • Author(s): Viscelgia, T, Tseng, C, Kondo, M, Meng, H, Sagisaka, Y
  • Journal Title: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Pages: 67-72
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Studying L2 Suprasegmental Features in Asian Englishes: A Position Paper (2009)
  • Author(s): Meng, H., Tseng, C., Kondo, M., Harrison, A., Viscelgia, T.
  • Journal Title: The Proceedings of 2009 INTERSPEECH Pages: 1715-1718
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Acoustic Realization of Lexical Accent and its Effects on Phrase Intonation in English Speakers' Japanese' (2007)
  • Author(s): Kondo, Mariko.
  • Journal Title: The Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Science 1306 Pages: 1649-1652
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 音韻論と音声学を結んで:Laboratory Phonologyの動向と展望 (2007)
  • Author(s): 近藤眞理子
  • Journal Title: 日本言語学会第135回大会予稿集 Pages: 2-11
• [Journal Article] Phonefme duration sensitivity in L2 adaptation in Japanese-Phonological Parsing Rules in Different Phonological Units
  • Author(s): Kondo, Mariko
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on East Asian Linguistics
• [Journal Article] 'Is Acquisition of L2 Phonemes Difficult? Production of English Stress by Japanese Speakers'. In Proceedings of the 10th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2009)
  • Author(s): Kondo, Mariko.
  • Journal Title: Proceedings Project
• [Presentation] Phonetic Aspects of Content Design in AESOP (Asian English Speech cOrpus Project) (2009)
  • Author(s): Viscelgia, T, Tseng, C, Kondo, M, Meng, H, Sagisaka, Y
  • Organizer: The 12th conference of Oriental Chapter of the International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques
  • Place of Presentation: Tsinghua University, China
  • Year and Date: 20090810-20090812
• [Presentation] AESOP Corpora Design for Japanese Speakers (2009)
  • Author(s): Kondo, M., Nakano, M., Sagisaka, Y.
  • Organizer: AESOP (Asian English Speech cOrpus Project) 2009 International Workshop, Tsinghua University, China
  • Year and Date: 20090808-20090809
• [Presentation] Is Acquisition of L2 Phonemes Difficult? Production of English Stress by Japanese Speakers (2009)
  • Author(s): Kondo, Mariko.
  • Organizer: 10th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Place of Presentation: Illinois, USA.
  • Year and Date: 20090313-20090315
• [Presentation] Studying L2 Suprasegmental Features in Asian Englishes: A Position Paper (2009)
  • Author(s): Meng, H., Tseng, C., Kondo, M., Harrison, A., Viscelgia, T.
  • Organizer: 2009 INTERSPEECH
  • Place of Presentation: Brighton, UK
  • Year and Date: 20090206-20090210
• [Presentation] AESOPコーパスの構築:EFLの見地から (2009)
  • Author(s): 近藤眞理子
  • Organizer: 早稲田大学ことばの科学研究所研究発表会
  • Place of Presentation: 早稲田大学国際情報通信研究科
  • Year and Date: 2009-10-07
• [Presentation] Design of English Speech Corpus for AESOP-progress to date (2009)
  • Author(s): Kondo, Mariko.
  • Organizer: Regular Talks of Sagisaka Lab, GITI, Waseda University
  • Year and Date: 2009-04-15
• [Presentation] 音韻規則と音声データ:音声データからみえてくるもの (2009)
  • Author(s): 近藤眞理子
  • Organizer: 上智大学音声学研究室講演会
  • Year and Date: 2009-01-27
• [Presentation] Phoneme duration sensitivity in L2 adaptation in Japanese-Phonological Parsing Rules in Different Phonological Units (2008)
  • Author(s): Kondo, M., Shinohara, S.
  • Organizer: The Second International Conference on East Asian Linguistics
  • Place of Presentation: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • Year and Date: 20081107-20081109
• [Presentation] The 2nd International Workshop on Language and Speech Science (2008)
  • Author(s): Kondo, Mariko.
  • Organizer: Waseda University, Japan
  • Year and Date: 20080904-20080905
• [Presentation] Phonological adaptation and production of second language (2008)
  • Author(s): Kondo, Mariko.
  • Organizer: Linguistic Seminar, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, University of Queensland
  • Place of Presentation: Australia
  • Year and Date: 2008-05-09
• [Presentation] 音韻論と音声学を結んで:Laboratory Phonologyの動向と展望 (2007)
  • Author(s): 近藤眞理子
  • Organizer: 日本言語学会第135回大会
  • Year and Date: 20071124-20071125
• [Presentation] Acoustic Realization of Lexical Accent and its Effects on Phrase Intonation in English Speakers' Japanese' (2007)
  • Author(s): Kondo, Mariko.
  • Organizer: The 16th International Congress of Phonetic Science
  • Place of Presentation: Saarbrucken, Germany
  • Year and Date: 20070806-20080810