A study on pitch patterns of Japanese speakers of English in comparison with native speakers of English

• Nariai Tomoko

  Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba

• Tanaka Kazuyo

  Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba

抄録

We describe the analytical results for pitch patterns of sentence utterances in English spoken by Japanese (Japanese English, henceforth). In this study, the difference between Japanese English and native English speakers is evaluated in terms of sentence structure to classify words depending on their positions and functions. Results suggest that the intonation patterns in Japanese English are flat, such that most function words are high pitch at any position in a sentence, whereas content words are low pitch at the beginning of sentences and at the ends of interrogative sentences, but high pitch at the ends of declarative sentences.

収録刊行物

• Acoustical Science and Technology

  Acoustical Science and Technology 33 (4), 247-254, 2012

  一般社団法人 日本音響学会

キーワード

• Japanese learners of English
• Second language learning
• Speech analysis
• Prosody

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001205088869632
• NII論文ID: 130001853344
• NII書誌ID: AA11501808
• DOI: 10.1250/ast.33.247
• ISSN: 13475177
• ISSN: 03694232
• ISSN: 13463969
• NDL書誌ID: 023875230
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I023875230
• 本文言語コード: en
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