2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Building of a Learner Corpus of Japanese Speakers' Pronunciation of English and Descriptive Studies
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26370576
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Chuo University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 英語 / 音声 / 日本人学習者 / コーパス / 韻律 / 中間言語 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The 800 utterances selected from English Read by Japanese speech database were phonetically transcribed to produce the segmental labeling. This comprised the segmental part of ERJ Phonetic corpus, and the data was analyzed to describe the segmental characteristics of Japanese speakers’ pronunciation of English, although the survey was tentative because the corpus lacked the prosodic labeling.
In the meantime, a new four-tier labeling system was devised to add the prosodic labeling to the corpus. The new system was based on the proposal by Post and Delais-Roussarie (2006).
Also, a new diagnostic sentence set was produced by adapting the short and amusing passage used in Labov (1966). The recording with this passage should contain more animated and varied prosody, in contrast to the ERJ set, which was a collection of unrelated single sentences and could have encouraged monotonous reading.
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| Free Research Field |
音声学 英語学
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