This paper presents a perception experiment to measure the ability of Japanese children in fourth and fifth grade elementary school to recognize culturally encoded expressions of politeness and impoliteness in their n...
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This paper presents a perception experiment to measure the ability of Japanese children in fourth and fifth grade elementary school to recognize culturally encoded expressions of politeness and impoliteness in their native language. Audio-visual stimuli were presented to listeners, who rate the politeness degree and a possible situation where such an expression could be used. Analysis of results focuses on the differences and the similarities between adult listeners and children, for each attitude and modality. Facial information seems to be retrieved earlier than audio ones, and expressions of different degrees of Japanese politeness, including expressions of kyoshuku, are still not understood around 10 years of age.
This research is part of the ongoing multinational collaboration "Asian English Speech cOrpus Project" (AESOP), whose aim is to build up a speech corpus representing the varieties of English spoken in Asia. ...
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This research is part of the ongoing multinational collaboration "Asian English Speech cOrpus Project" (AESOP), whose aim is to build up a speech corpus representing the varieties of English spoken in Asia. The present paper describes tasks designed to elicit production of a comprehensive range of English segmental and suprasegmental characteristics in the form of spontaneous speech. Segmental and suprasegmental properties of spontaneous speech have been shown to differ significantly from those of read speech;nevertheless, much of the data used to develop man-machine speech communication systems has, for the most part, been based on read speech. Experiments designed to elicit a full range of L2 English segmental and prosodic features in spontaneous speech could efficiently collect an inventory of these features in a database, which could be used for further phonetic studies as well as modeling and ICT tool development tailored to the Asian L2 English-speaking population.
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