TY - GEN
T1 - The perception of non-native lexical pitch accent by speakers of 'accentless' Japanese dialects
AU - Utsugi, Akira
AU - Koizumi, Masatoshi
AU - Mazuka, Reiko
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Yuko Sogabe, Mihoko Hasegawa, and Satoshi Imamura for helping our experiment, and Sho Tsuji and Kuniyoshi Tanaka for their invaluable comments on the manuscript. This work was supported by KAKENHI (No. 21820079).
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© 2010 Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - While Standard (Tokyo) Japanese has a lexical tonal system known as a system of 'lexical pitch accent', there are some varieties of Japanese, called 'accentless' dialects, which do not have any lexical tonal phenomena. We investigated how the speakers of those dialects perceive Standard Japanese accent, which is nonexistent in their native dialect's phonology. The results of the Sequence Recall task showed that their scores were lower than those of control (Standard Japanese) participants. We also found a large variance in the results of 'accentless' participants, which was probably caused by their exposure to Standard Japanese.
AB - While Standard (Tokyo) Japanese has a lexical tonal system known as a system of 'lexical pitch accent', there are some varieties of Japanese, called 'accentless' dialects, which do not have any lexical tonal phenomena. We investigated how the speakers of those dialects perceive Standard Japanese accent, which is nonexistent in their native dialect's phonology. The results of the Sequence Recall task showed that their scores were lower than those of control (Standard Japanese) participants. We also found a large variance in the results of 'accentless' participants, which was probably caused by their exposure to Standard Japanese.
KW - Non-native speech perception
KW - Pitch accent 'deafness'
KW - Sequence recall task
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T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody
BT - 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2010
PB - International Speech Communications Association
T2 - 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody: Every Language, Every Style, SP 2010
Y2 - 10 May 2010 through 14 May 2010
ER -