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2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A research on the effect of lexical structure and lexical properties in the production and perception of speech

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 19K00585
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
Research InstitutionSophia University

Principal Investigator

Kitahara Mafuyu  上智大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (00343301)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 米山 聖子  大東文化大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (60365856)
田嶋 圭一  法政大学, 文学部, 教授 (70366821)
Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Keywords強勢 / ピッチ / 母音長 / フォルマント / 母音無声化
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Our research suggests the following: [1] Native speakers of English (AE) in our experiments do not use consistent patterns of pitch for stress, while Japanese learners of English (JE) tend to put a high-low pitch contour on a stressed syllable, which is quite similar to a pitch accent in Japanese. [2] F1 (corresponds to jaw opening) is well utilized for stress distinction by JE, which has been denied in the previous research. [3] Vowel duration shows a similar tendency as in [2]. [4] JE shows a frequent devoicing of unstressed vowels which is very rare in AE's speech. [5] Differences in Enlgish proficiency levels in JE do not affect the proper distinction between secondary stressed syllables and unstressed syllables.

Free Research Field

音声学・音韻論・認知科学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

これまであまり指摘されてこなかったような日本語母語話者の英語発音における問題点を明らかにし,英語発音の改善に資するようなポイントを複数指摘することができた.特に母音の無声化や日本語のようなピッチアクセントを英語の強勢音節に被せて発音することはTOEIC800点以上のいわゆる英語上級者においても頻繁に見られた.これは母語である日本語のレキシコンおよび音韻体系が外国語学習においても強く影響していることを示している.一方で,日本語単語の弁別に関する知覚実験において,レキシコンにおける促音や有声性の音韻対立の影響を調べた.結果の多くは英語母語話者に関する先行研究とは異なり,対立の効果は大きくなかった.

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Published: 2025-01-30  

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