English Vowel Spaces Produced by Japanese Speakers : The Smaller Point Vowels' and the Greater Schwas'

Journal of psycholinguistic research 39 巻 5 号 375-391 頁 2009-12-31 発行
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English Vowel Spaces Produced by Japanese Speakers : The Smaller Point Vowels' and the Greater Schwas'
作成者
Tomita Kaoru
Takatsuka Shigenobu
収録物名
Journal of psycholinguistic research
39
5
開始ページ 375
終了ページ 391
抄録
This study investigated how Japanese-speaking learners of English pronounce the three point vowels /i/, /u/, and /a/ appearing in the first and second monosyllabic words of English noun phrases, and the schwa /ə/ appearing in English disyllabic words. First and second formant (F1 and F2) values were measured for four Japanese speakers and two American English speakers. The hypothesis that the area encompassed by the point vowels in the F1-F2 vowel space tends to be smaller for the Japanese speakers than for the English speakers was verified. The hypothesis that the area formed by the three schwas in chicken, spoonful, and Tarzan is greater for the Japanese speakers than for the English speakers and its related hypothesis were largely upheld. Implications for further research are briefly discussed.
著者キーワード
First formant values
Japanese speakers
Point vowels
Schwas
Second formant values
Vowel quality
Vowel spaces
言語
英語
資源タイプ 学術雑誌論文
出版者
Springer
発行日 2009-12-31
権利情報
Copyright (c) Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009
出版タイプ Author’s Original(十分な品質であるとして、著者から正式な査読に提出される版)
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収録物識別子
The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
[ISSN] 0090-6905
[DOI] 10.1007/s10936-009-9144-0
[NCID] AA00244521
[DOI] http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10936-009-9144-0