2022 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Japanese Phonotactics and Non-Native Speech Perception
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20K13055
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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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| Keywords | Iconicity / Predictablity / Machine Learning |
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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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| Causes of Carryover |
This year, I hope to conduct in-person experiments. Some funds will go towards paying participants. I have also been accepted for a presentation in Tokyo this year. Aside from that, I expect the remainer to be spent on publication fees. The reason why there is carryover of 512,088yen is because I have still not been able to run full psycholinguistic experiments with face to face participants which was the original purpose for that money, however, I am in the process of correcting this now.
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Research Products
(4 results)
