2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The effects of attention and training methods on the perception of American English vowels by native speakers of Japanese
| Project/Area Number |
25370448
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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 |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Ritsumeikan University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | アメリカ英語 / 母音 / 鼻音 / 訓練 / 同定 / 弁別 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The accuracy with which native Japanese listeners identified and discriminated American English vowels and coda nasals was assessed before and after training. The listeners were divided into four groups, each of which received a different type of training. Two of the four groups were vowel-oriented; one of these groups received vowel identification training (VI), while the other received vowel discrimination training (VD). The other two groups were nasal-oriented. One of the nasal-oriented groups received nasal identification training (NI), and the other received nasal discrimination training (ND).
The results revealed that the VI group made more gains in its ability to identify vowels than the other groups after training. No group made significant gains to discriminate vowels regardless of the training they received. All the four groups made a significant improvement in identifying and discriminating nasals, and no significant difference among the groups was observed.
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| Free Research Field |
音声学
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