2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The physiological factors controlling the Japanese speech rhythm produced by learners of Japanese and their application in pronunciation practice

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21520537
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Japanese language education
Research Institution	Nagoya University
Principal Investigator	KASHIMA Tanomu 名古屋大学, 留学生センター, 教授 (60204377)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	HASHIMOTO Shingo 岐阜大学, 留学生センター, 准教授 (20293582)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	日本語学習者 / リズムユニット / リズム型 / 生理的要因 / 呼気圧 / 呼気流量 / 総流量
Research Abstract	The characteristic speech rhythm of Japanese produced by speakers of Chinese, Korean and Spanish were analysed in terms of physiological parameters, such as the intraoral pressure and the airflow rate. In this research, the Japanese rhythm is hypothesized to be controlled by rhythm units, not by morae. The result has revealed that the amount of airflow for the rhythm unit 2 varies depending on the types of special mora and the position it occurs in a word. Moreover, it was found that a certain fixed amount of airflow is distributed to each of the rhythm units constituting a word.

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