2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Prosodic Perception by L1 and L2 Speakers of English
| Project/Area Number |
24520542
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Kobe University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
PINTER Gabor 神戸大学, 国際コミュニケーションセンター, 准教授 (30580691)
YAMATO Kazuhito 神戸大学, 国際コミュニケーションセンター, 准教授 (80370005)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
TATEISHI Koichi 神戸女学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (70291789)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 英語の音調 / プロソディ / 英語の自然発話 / 発話のまとまり（IP) / プロミネンス / 日本語を母語とする英語学習者 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study investigates how prosodic boundaries and prominent words are perceived in spontaneous English speech by speakers in three different language groups of native speakers of English(NS), intermediate-level Japanese EFL learners (Int), and advanced Japanese EFL learners (Adv) based on the experiment paradigm Rapid Prosody Transcription (RPT). The results are, as expected from the previous studies, there was greater agreement on boundaries than prominence in all the three groups. Also NS exhibited greater inter-listerner agreement than EFL learners. Another finding is that Adv achieved stronger correlation with NS in prominence than in boundaries. A possible interpretation of this is that Adv has acquired more native-like behavior in perceiving prominence than boundaries. The previous studies show that syntax directly influences boundary perception independent of acoustic cues. Our next task is to scrutinize the correlation between acoustic and syntactic cues.
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| Free Research Field |
言語学
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