Japanese accentuations by foreign students and Japanese speakers of non-Tokyo dialect

Author

Yamada, Nobuko

Author_Institution

Fac. of Humanities, Ibaraki Univ., Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

3-6 Oct 1996

Firstpage

614

Abstract

The study presented is the first attempt toward a unified theory of Tokyo dialect accentuation acquisition by non native speakers of Japanese and by Japanese speakers of non Tokyo dialect, i.e., speakers from Ibaraki prefecture in Japan. The data are analyzed with regards to the interim accentual system which will be produced in the acquisition process and will be different from that of the mother tongue (dialect) or that of the target language (dialect), and which is called interlanguage (S.P. Corder, 1981) or interdialect (P. Trudgill, 1986). The characteristics of both interlanguage and interdialect were examined and it was found that all subjects seemed to have created the same system under the strong influence of their target language accentual system

Keywords

natural languages; speech; Ibaraki prefecture; Japanese accentuations; Japanese speakers; Tokyo dialect accentuation acquisition; acquisition process; foreign students; interdialect; interim accentual system; interlanguage; language accentual system; mother tongue; non Tokyo dialect; non native speakers; target language; Data analysis; ISO; Tongue;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3555-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607436

Filename

607436