{"id":4696,"date":"2012-11-19T05:03:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T09:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=4696"},"modified":"2012-11-18T22:48:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T02:48:52","slug":"phonology-circle-1119-keiichi-tajima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2012\/11\/19\/phonology-circle-1119-keiichi-tajima\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle 11\/19 - Keiichi Tajima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Keiichi Tajima (Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Hosei University \/ Visiting Researcher, Speech Communication Group, Research Laboratories of Electronics, MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle:\t\tPerception of prosody in a non-native language: The case of Japanese<br clear='none'\/>\n\t\tlisteners\u0092 perception of English syllable structure.<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: Monday, Nov 19, 5pm<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D831<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Learners of a second language (L2) are known to have difficulty in the<br clear='none'\/>\nproduction and perception of not just phonetic contrasts that are not<br clear='none'\/>\nfound in their native language (L1), but also prosodic properties that<br clear='none'\/>\ndiverge from their L1, such as syllable structure, rhythm, and<br clear='none'\/>\nintonation.  In the present study, I report results from a series of<br clear='none'\/>\nstudies that investigated the extent to which native Japanese<br clear='none'\/>\nlisteners have difficulty perceiving syllables in spoken English,<br clear='none'\/>\ngiven the fact that English generally has more complex syllable<br clear='none'\/>\nstructures than Japanese.  Results show that Japanese listeners indeed<br clear='none'\/>\nhave great difficulty accurately counting syllables in spoken English<br clear='none'\/>\nwords.  Perceptual identification training, however, significantly<br clear='none'\/>\nimproves their performance.  The non-native listeners\u0092 difficulty was<br clear='none'\/>\nstrongly related to phonological factors such as the syllable<br clear='none'\/>\ncomplexity of the English words, but it was not related to phonetic<br clear='none'\/>\nfactors such as the speaking rate of the words, nor to lexical factors<br clear='none'\/>\nsuch as the presence or absence of loanwords in Japanese that are<br clear='none'\/>\netymologically \/ semantically related to yet phonologically distinct<br clear='none'\/>\n(with divergent syllable structures) from the source words, e.g.,<br clear='none'\/>\nEnglish source word \u0093stress\u0094 and its corresponding Japanese loanword<br clear='none'\/>\n\u0093sutoresu\u0094.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Keiichi Tajima (Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Hosei University \/ Visiting Researcher, Speech Communication Group, Research Laboratories of Electronics, MIT) Title: Perception of prosody in a non-native language: The case of Japanese listeners\u0092 perception of English syllable structure. Date\/Time: Monday, Nov 19, 5pm Location: 32-D831 Learners of a second language (L2) are known to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4697,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions\/4697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}