A Study on the Relation between Voicedness of Plosives and Prosody produced and/or perceived by the Learners of Japanese of various non-native Speakers

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370449
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Iwai Yasuo 大阪大学, 日本語日本文化教育センター, 教授 (30273741)
• Research Collaborator: MATSUGI Naruo 大阪大学, 言語文化研究科
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 破裂音の有声性 / VOT / 音声教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aimed to clarify the relation between Voicedness of plosives and prosody produced and/or perceived by the learners of Japanese of various non-native speakers.
Subjects of this research are multilingual learners of Japanese, English, etc. (although there is a difference in level) in addition to their native language. Through the observation of what kind of perception and production of these subjects, we examined a voicing contrast and prosody.

Free Research Field

音声学・音韻論