On the possibility and limitation of training Japanese speakers to identify English /r/ and /l/

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  • 日本語話者に対する英語のRとLの弁別訓練の可能性と限界について

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The impact of a long-term /r/-/l/ identification training was studied with 4 Japanese subjects using 200 tokens produced by 10 American talkers for the target consonants in initial and consonant cluster positions.Another 200 tokens produced by 10 different talkers were used in 15 training sessions, and each subject's sensitivity to non-training tokens greatly increased after training.Even then, each subjects had some tokens that they could not identify properly, and in an extreme case, some /l/ tokens were always erroneously identified as /r/, indicating that Japanese identify these consonants in a way that is fundamentally different from native English speakers.

Journal

  • IEICE technical report. Speech

    IEICE technical report. Speech 97 (587), 1-8, 1998-03-06

    The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

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  • CRID
    1572543027223490560
  • NII Article ID
    110003296132
  • NII Book ID
    AN10013221
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • CiNii Articles

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