2016 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Mental processing of speech prosody in first and second language and applications of empirical data to second language didactics
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15J07142
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
浅野 友紀 名古屋大学, 国際開発研究科, 特別研究員(PD)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-24 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | Prosody / Second Language / Japanese / German / Mental representations / Mental processing |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In the second year of my tenure of the fellowship, the second study was conducted and the third study was prepared which data gathering will take place in the third year of my tenure. In the first quartile of the year, I developed experimental stimuli and recorded them and programmed the second experiment. Moreover, I read numerous literatures and previous works for the third study. In May, I attended an international conference on Speech Prosody in Boston, USA and presented my work as a poster presentation. In June, I attended an international conference on Conference on Second-Language Speech in Aarhus, Denmark and gave an oral presentation. At both conferences, I received useful feedback and comments from the audience. In the second quartile of the year, I gathered data (totaling 96 participants in various languages). In August, I attended an international conference on Cognitive Science in Philadelphia, USA and gave an oral presentation there. At such a large international conference, I got to know various different topics related to my work. The feedbacks that I achieved from them were insightful not only for the presented study, but also for the studies planned during the tenure of the fellowship. In the third quartile of the year, I wrote two papers and applied for one conference, from which I have already achieved an acceptance. In the fourth quartile of the year, I dedicated myself to writing journal a paper based on the first experimental data. Moreover, I started to develop experimental materials for the third study.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
I published international conference paperers and get two peer-reviewed journal papers accepted. Moreover, I conducted experiments and gather extensive data as planned. Besides the planned experiments, I am currently preparing further follow-up experiments that are beyond my original plan. This additional experiments are possible because the planned studies were carried out as originally planned.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In the third year of my tenure of fellowship, I am going to carry out the third study described in my research proposal and conduct a series of follow-up experiments that will complete the first and second studies that have been conducted in the first and second year of the tenure of fellowship. The third study explores the influence of language experience on the pre-attentive cortical processing of linguistically relevant pitch and segmental length contrast. Currently, a data gathering at the University of Nagoya is ongoing for which I hired a student assistant. For the data gathering in Germany, I am currently staying in Europe until summer.
The aforementioned follow-up experiments are currently being prepared. The first follow-up experiment will be a memory recall task and the second an eye-tracking experiment. These studies are motivated by the results of my first and second studies that were carried out in my first and second years of fellowship. The preparation for these follow-up experiments will be finished before the end of the first quartile, followed by data gatherings in Japan and in Germany that will take pale in the second and third quartile of the year. In the third and fourth quartiles of the year, I will further write peer-reviewed journal papers to report the results of the studies conducted during the tenure of fellowship.
During the third year of my fellowship, I am planning to attend a couple of international and Japanese conferences and workshops to achieve obstructive feedback and critics that will be useful for my publications and future studies.
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Research Products
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