A Comparative Analysis of American English Flaps and Japanese Flaps

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520544
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: English linguistics
• Research Institution: Hiroshima University
• Principal Investigator: ANIYA Sosei 広島大学, 総合科学研究科, 教授 (60202652)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 英語弾音 / 日本語ラ行弾音 / 音響対照分析

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The present study conducted a contrastive acoustic analysis of American English flaps and Japanese flaps. The major findings of the study include the following three points, which have not been recognized in previous studues: (1)The Japanese flap gets devoiced; (2) the American English flap is similar to the Japanese flap in occlusion duration and devoicing, and (3) the American English flap and the Japanese flap are dissimilar to the American English lateral liquid, which is longer in duration than the first two, and it rarely gets devoice.

Free Research Field

理論言語学