2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Acoustic, articulatory and perceptual analyses of English Rhythm and Intonation in order to teach Japanese learners of English
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22520412
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Showa University of Music |
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Principal Investigator |
ERICKSON Donna 昭和音楽大学, 音楽学部, 非常勤講師 (80331586)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MORI Youko 同志社大学, 言語文化センター, 嘱託講師 (50441192)
SHIBUYA Yoshiho 金沢医科大学, 一般教育機構, 教授 (90154260)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 音声学 articulation / rhythm / intonation / acoustics / American English / Japanese English |
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| Research Abstract |
Natural sounding prosody (rhythm and intonation) is extremely important for communication in a second language. Based on electromagnetic articulographic recordings (EMA) conducted at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST, Ishikawa Prefecture) for intermediate level Japanese speakers of English and American speakers of English, it was reported that the phonological metrical structure (rhythm/stress patterns) of an English utterance match the patterns of jaw movement, as well as the corresponding resonance frequency patterns of the vocal tract, specifically the first formant (F1) patterns; however, the Japanese speakers’ patterns of jaw opening/F1 did not always show consistent matches with the rhythm pattern of the utterance. The findings about articulation of rhythm are currently being applied towardimproving teaching of American English rhythm to Japanese learners of English.
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[Journal Article] Neutralizing differences in jaw displacement for English vowels2013
Author(s)
Williams, J.C., Erickson, D., Ozaki, Y., Suemitsu, A. Minematsu, N., Fujimura, O.
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Journal Title
Proc. of International Congress of Acoustics.
Volume: 24
Pages: 1-6
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[Journal Article] Effect of non-native rhythm on native listeners comprehension of spoken utterances.2012
Author(s)
Menezes, C., Erickson, D., Whalen, D.H., Ito, T., Mori, Y. and Hori, T.
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Journal Title
Acoustical Society of Japan, Fall meeting
Pages: 322-326
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[Journal Article] Comparison of tongue position during production of English non-stressed vowels uttered by native English/Japanese speakers2012
Author(s)
Hatano, H., Kitamura, T., Nakamura, J., Hayashi, R., and Erickson, D.
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Journal Title
Acoustical Society of Japan, Fall meeting
Pages: 315-316
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[Journal Article] Comparative Eletromagnetic Articulographic (EMA) study of English rhythm as produced by native and non-native speakers.2011
Author(s)
Erickson, D., Suemitsu, A., Shibuya, Y., Lee, S., and Tanaka, Y. (2011)
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Journal Title
Acoustical Society of America, Fall Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Volume: 130.4.2.2
Pages: 2567
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[Journal Article] Comparison of emotion perception among differentcultures2010
Author(s)
Dang, J., Li, A., Erickson, D., Suemitsu, A., Akagi, M., Sakuraba, K., Minematsu, N., Hirose K.
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Journal Title
Acoustical Science andTechnology
Volume: 31, 6
Pages: 394-402
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