説明
Japanese natives segment speech into morae. The current study tested whether this extends to perception of geminate consonants. We hypothesized that Japanese natives rely on the moraic obstruent /Q/ that is represented as a silent duration when perceiving geminate consonants. If so, it should be more difficult for them to distinguish ‘geminate fricative consonants /ss/’ and ‘a silent duration plus singleton fricative consonant /_s/’. Two series of cross-linguistic experiments with Japanese and Dutch natives compared discrimination and categorization accuracy of pseudo words including /ss/ and /_s/. Japanese natives discriminated them well while they poorly categorized them. Dutch natives performed both tasks with regard to /_s/ relatively well. These result patterns support our hypothesis. This provides further support for the language specific listening.
収録刊行物
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- Interspeech 2012
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Interspeech 2012 891-894, 2012-09-09
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