A perceptual basis for the systematic phonological correspodences between Japanese load words and their English source words  

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Takagi, Naoyuki ; Mann, Virginia A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Phonetics vol. 22 no. 4 (Sep. 1994), page 343 - 356.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JOP/22 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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There exist systematic sound correspondences in Japanese loan words whose English origins contain a tense or lax vowel followed by a voiceless stop. For English words of the structure (C1)V1C2 ({C3/V2}), the length of Japanese loan word vowels and consonants corresponding to VI (tense or lax) and ~ (voiceless stop) is predicted by the quality of VI and any following elements. To test the hypothesis that these correspondences follow from perceptual assimilation, 18 native speakers of Japanese were presented with nonsense words uttered by two native speakers of American English, where C1 = /g/, V1 = /I, i, U, u/, ~ = /p, t, k/, C3 = Is, t/ and V2 = / a/. The subjects chose which of four katakana representations sounded closest to each stimulus: S(hort)V + S(ingle)C, SV + G(eminate)C, L(ong)V + SC or LV + GC. The response patterns for CVC and CVC/s/ tokens were consistent with the experimental hypothesis in so far as they matched loan word correspondences and correlated with certain durational properties of the stimuli. However, the responses to CVC/t/ and CVCv tokens did not match the existing systematic correspondences, implicating factors other than perceptual assimilation.

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