Japanese Phonotactics and Non-Native Speech Perception
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20K13055
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02070:Japanese linguistics-related
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University of Commerce & Business |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2022)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
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| Keywords | Iconicity / Predictablity / Machine Learning / English / Japanese / Korean / Chinese / French / German / Speech Perception / Predictability / Transitional Probability / Phonotactics |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
Human perception is shaped by experience. When input is improbable in the context of the perceiver's experience, perceptual systems will sometimes create an illusion so that the input conforms better to expectation. For example, Japanese does not allow homorganic consonant clusters and when Japanese listeners are exposed to non-native speech that contains homorganic consonant clusters, they sometimes report hearing an illusory vowel amid the cluster. This project will explore the various ways that Japanese listeners perceive input that is improbable in the context of their linguistic history.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In the last twelve months, two major publications have been published and two confrences have been attended to present the findings of my research. The two studies examined predictability in the names of fictional characters. Fictional characters were used because I was unable to safely run my more traditional experiments during the Corona pandemic. The two studies were published in very high ranking journals: Plos One and Frontiers in Psychology. Both studies show that there are clear effects of sound symbolism in fictional character names. At the conferences I presented my research, I was able to discuss my research with experts and gain valuable advice.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The last twelve months have been progressing rather smoothly. I have published articles, attended international conferences and am currently programming a new experimental program wich will examine Japanese perceptual epenthesis.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Right now I am writing two journal articles that examine the role of predictability and sound symbolism in Japanese and American English. I am also programming a new computer program for a new experiment.
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Report
(3 results)
Research Products
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