2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Prosodic Structure and Markedness: focus on phonological acquisition and pathological data
Project/Area Number |
26370577
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
English linguistics
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Research Institution | Tsuda University |
Principal Investigator |
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Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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Keywords | Down's syndrome / Dyslexia / Mora / Syllable |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project focused on the acquisition process of the so called moraic phonemes. Our result based on reversal and segmentation tasks revealed the fact that the moraic phonemes whose phonological structures are "independent" are more likely to be acquired earlier than those whose phonological structures are not as independent, and rely on other elements for their existence (i.e. copying the following onset, or, copying the preceding vowel, etc.). The result implies that phonological acquisition takes place earlier at the syllabic level rather than on the moraic level.
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Free Research Field |
音韻論
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