Perception and production of French oral vowels by Japanese-speaking learners: does dialectal variation play a role?
This paper presents a series of studies on the impact of regional variation in L1 (source language) on L2 (target language) pronunciation, focusing on the high back vowel /u/ in French perceived or produced by native speakers of Japanese from the Kanto area (around Tokyo) and the Kansai area (around...
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| author | Takeki KAMIYAMA Jumpei KANEDA Ryoko HAYASHI |
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| description | This paper presents a series of studies on the impact of regional variation in L1 (source language) on L2 (target language) pronunciation, focusing on the high back vowel /u/ in French perceived or produced by native speakers of Japanese from the Kanto area (around Tokyo) and the Kansai area (around Osaka). 1) To serve as a base line, the 5 Japanese vowels were pronounced by 11 speakers (5 women and 6 men) from Kansai with no learning experience of French and their first 4 formants were measured to examine their acoustic properties. 2) 25 naïve listeners from Kansai took part in an AXB auditory discrimination task for French vowels including pairs /u/-/y/, /y/-/ø/ and /u/-/ø/; the results were compared with those of Kanto speakers in previous studies. 3) Some Japanese-speaking learners of French (JSL) from Kansai produced the French /u/ with a lower F2 (around 1,000 Hz for men) than typical values observed for learners from the Tokyo area. These results show limited differences for some of the speakers from Kansai compared to the tendency commonly observed with Kanto speakers |
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| spelling | doaj.art-81bddb65fb9d4460a9b9fbf58c4409292023-12-22T13:46:18ZfraUniversité de LimogesEspaces Linguistiques2729-35482023-12-01510.25965/espaces-linguistiques.644644Perception and production of French oral vowels by Japanese-speaking learners: does dialectal variation play a role?Takeki KAMIYAMA0Jumpei KANEDA1Ryoko HAYASHI2UR TransCrit, Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-DenisATR Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute InternationalKobe UniversityThis paper presents a series of studies on the impact of regional variation in L1 (source language) on L2 (target language) pronunciation, focusing on the high back vowel /u/ in French perceived or produced by native speakers of Japanese from the Kanto area (around Tokyo) and the Kansai area (around Osaka). 1) To serve as a base line, the 5 Japanese vowels were pronounced by 11 speakers (5 women and 6 men) from Kansai with no learning experience of French and their first 4 formants were measured to examine their acoustic properties. 2) 25 naïve listeners from Kansai took part in an AXB auditory discrimination task for French vowels including pairs /u/-/y/, /y/-/ø/ and /u/-/ø/; the results were compared with those of Kanto speakers in previous studies. 3) Some Japanese-speaking learners of French (JSL) from Kansai produced the French /u/ with a lower F2 (around 1,000 Hz for men) than typical values observed for learners from the Tokyo area. These results show limited differences for some of the speakers from Kansai compared to the tendency commonly observed with Kanto speakershttps://www.unilim.fr/espaces-linguistiques/644voyelles françaisesjaponophonesvariation régionaleperceptionproduction |
| spellingShingle | Takeki KAMIYAMA Jumpei KANEDA Ryoko HAYASHI Perception and production of French oral vowels by Japanese-speaking learners: does dialectal variation play a role? Espaces Linguistiques voyelles françaises japonophones variation régionale perception production |
| title | Perception and production of French oral vowels by Japanese-speaking learners: does dialectal variation play a role? |
| title_full | Perception and production of French oral vowels by Japanese-speaking learners: does dialectal variation play a role? |
| title_fullStr | Perception and production of French oral vowels by Japanese-speaking learners: does dialectal variation play a role? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perception and production of French oral vowels by Japanese-speaking learners: does dialectal variation play a role? |
| title_short | Perception and production of French oral vowels by Japanese-speaking learners: does dialectal variation play a role? |
| title_sort | perception and production of french oral vowels by japanese speaking learners does dialectal variation play a role |
| topic | voyelles françaises japonophones variation régionale perception production |
| url | https://www.unilim.fr/espaces-linguistiques/644 |
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