Effects of mora-timing in English rhythm control by Japanese learners

Shizuka Nakamura; Hiroaki Kato; Yoshinori Sagisaka

Effects of mora-timing in English rhythm control by Japanese learners

Shizuka Nakamura^*, Hiroaki Kato, Yoshinori Sagisaka

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School of Fundamental Science and Engineering

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Abstract

In this paper, we analyzed the durational differences between learners and native speakers in various speech units from the perspective of that the contrast between the stressed and the unstressed is one of the most important features to characterize stress-timing of English by comparison with mora-timing of Japanese. The results showed that the lengthening and shortening of learner speech were not enough to convey the difference between the stressed and the unstressed. Finally, it was confirmed that these durational differences strongly affected the subjective evaluation scores given by English language teachers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1539-1542
Number of pages	4
Journal	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
Publication status	Published - 2009 Nov 26
Event	10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2009 - Brighton, United Kingdom Duration: 2009 Sept 6 → 2009 Sept 10

Keywords

English
Japanese
Mora-timing
Rhythm control
Stress-timing
Syllable

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Signal Processing
Software
Sensory Systems

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Effects of mora-timing in English rhythm control by Japanese learners

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