Vietnamese speakers' mispronunciation of Japanese singleton and geminate stops

Acoustical science and technology

article

Kimiko Yamakawa¹  Shigeaki Amano²  Mariko Kondo³ 

[1] Faculty of Contemporary Culture, Shokei University;Faculty of Human Informatics, Aichi Shukutoku University;School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University

关键词: Mispronunciation;    Singleton and geminate stops;    Duration ratio;    Non-native speaker;   

DOI  :  10.1250/ast.43.241

学科分类：声学和超声波

来源: Acoustical Society of Japan

【 摘 要 】

Vietnamese speakers' mispronunciations of Japanese singleton and geminate stops were identified using the category boundary of the stops pronounced by native Japanese speakers. To clarify the characteristics of the Vietnamese speakers' mispronunciations, their speech segment durations were analyzed. In comparison with native Japanese speakers' correct pronunciations, Vietnamese speakers mispronounced a singleton stop with a longer closure and a shorter preceding consonant-vowel segment, whereas they mispronounced a geminate stop with a shorter closure and a longer following consonant-vowel segment. These results were consistent with the findings of Korean, Taiwanese Mandarin, and Thai speakers in previous studies, suggesting that non-native speakers may have a common tendency to have inadequate durations of closure and anteroposterior consonant-vowel segments in mispronunciations of Japanese singleton and geminate stops.

【 授权许可】

Unknown