Comparing native speakers’ intelligibility and acceptability judgments of japanese efl learners
-
-
[1] Meiji University
Meiji University
Japón
-
- Localización: Tendencias actuales en fonética experimental: cruce de disciplinas en el centenario del "Manual de Pronunciación Española" (Tomás Navarro Tomás) : [CIFE 2017 : VII Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental, Madrid 22-24/11/17] / coord. por Victoria Marrero Aguiar, Eva Estebas Vilaplana; Silvia Carmen Barreiro Bilbao (col.), Juan María Garrido Almiñana (col.), María Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba (col.), Nuria Polo Cano (col.), 2017, ISBN 978-84-697-7855-5, págs. 280-283
- Idioma: inglés
- Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
-
Resumen
Intelligibility and acceptability ultimately lies with listener perceptions and judgments. Rubrecht (2009) showed that listener dialect influences these perceptions and judgments. Because listeners use segmental cues such as /ɹ/ and /l/ to determine strength of accent (e.g., Riney, Takagi & Inutsuka, 2005), further research (Rubrecht, 2012) examining how judges (raters) differ in their perceptions of Japanese EFL speakers’ word-level phonemic productions indicated statistical significance between the judges of /ɹ/ and /l/ in multiple word positions, thereby legitimizing questions regarding the potential lack of pronunciation instruction and evaluation standards across educators and judges. In order to determine if pronunciation training influences statistical significance, further research (i.e., the current research) found statistically significant instances reduced by almost half, indicating that pronunciation training can improve the intelligibility and acceptability of /ɹ/ and /l/ of native Japanese speakers for judges who do not emphasize such production in all positions in their dialects.
