著者

福岡 昌子

出版者

三重大学国際交流センター

雑誌

三重大学国際交流センター紀要

巻号頁・発行日

vol.6, pp.11-29, 2011-03-25

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It is frequently difficult for Chinese and Korean learners of Japanese to acquireperception and pronunciation of Japanese voiced/unvoiced plosives. This studyinvestigated perception and plosive acquisition by Beijing, / Shanghai and Seouldialect speakers utilizing VOT analysis.All three subjects found it difficult to produce vocal cord vibration while attempting to pronounce Japanese voiced plosives because their L I doesn't havevoiced plosives. This was observed even though they can perceive the Japanese voicedplosives as "a new sound".Further, in perception, the Beijing / Shanghai dialect speakers experiencedsimilar-sound confusion between their L 1 voiceless unaspirated plosives and Japanesevoiceless plosives. In the case of Seoul dialect speakers they confused the voicelessJapanese plosives with the L I lax plosives as a similar sound in L 2.In production however, the Beijing/Shanghai dialect speakers experienced similar sound confusion between their L 1 voiceless unaspirated plosives andJapanese voicedplosives. In the case of Seoul dialect speaker's production, they confused the voiced Japanese plosives with the L 1 lax plosives as a similar sound in L 2.Finally, the Beijing / Shanghai dialect speakers were confused by word-middle andword-final positions. On the other hand, the Seoul dialect learners were confused at the word initial position, and experienced confusion of pitch pattern caused by L 1interference. The study revealed the resemblances and differences in the acquisition and the teaching of Japanese plosives and the mechanism of the confusion experienced in the Japanese plosive acquisition.