Japanese Foot as a Perceptual Timing Unit: Behavioral Evidence for Bimoraic Rhythm Perception of Japanese Speech

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  • 知覚的等時単位としての日本語フット―日本語音声のバイモーラ的リズム知覚―

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<p>Although Japanese foot is known as a rhythmic unit in the literature of metrics, spontaneous Japanese speech is considered to be mora-timed and the perceptual property of foot as a timing unit is unknown. The present study investigated whether Japanese foot is of psychological reality by using an identification task of moraic rests between odd-numbered or even-numbered mora nonwords. The results showed that the absolute threshold of moraic rest was shorter if nonwords were pentamoraic (five morae) than tetramoraic (four morae), suggesting that odd-numbered mora words were easier to be perceived with moraic rest because of the structural stability of foot. This offers behavioral evidence for foot as a perceptual timing unit in spontaneous Japanese speech perception.</p>

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  • CRID
    1390298986213238528
  • DOI
    10.24467/onseikenkyu.27.3_92
  • ISSN
    21895961
    13428675
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
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