A Psycholinguistic Perspective on Finnish and Japanese Prosody Perce
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A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE ON FINNISH AND JAPANESE PROSODY Perception, Production and Child Acquisition of Consonantal Quantity Distinctions
by
Katsura Aoyama UNIVERISTY OF HA WAI'I AT MANOA
SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Aoyama, Katsura. A psycholinguistic perspective on Finnish and J apanese prosody: perception, production and child acquisition of consonantal quality distinctions I by Katsura Aoyama. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-4613-4681-4 ISBN 978-1-4419-8754-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-8754-9 1. Finnish language-Grammar, Comparative-Japanese. 2. Japanese language-Grammar, Comparative-Finnish. 3. Psycholinguistics. 4. Finnish language-Psychological aspects. 5. Japanese language-Psychological aspects. 6. Second language acquisition. 1. Title. PH131 .A692000 495.6' 16-dc21
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Copyright tO 2001 by Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by K1uwer Academic Publishers in 2001 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover Ist edition 2001
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CONTENTS List of figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii List of tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ix Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Chapter 1: Introduction ........... .. .... . ....... . ..... . ... 1 Chapter 2: Background ........... . ... . ............. .. ..... 5 2.1. Quantity contrasts in Finnish and Japanese phonology . . . 5 2.2. Geminates and the mora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.3. The mora-timing hypothesis ... . ....... . ...... ... . 11 Chapter 3: Preliminary survey: Frequencies of long vowels and geminate consonants in Finnish and Japanese . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3.1. Purpose of the survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3.2. Research questions ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3.3. Method ............................... . .... . . 19 3.4. Results ....................................... 22 3.5. Summary: Implication for the experiments . . . . . . . . . . 29 Chapter 4: Discrimination boundary between the single and geminate consonants ....................................... 31 4.1. Purpose of the experiments and research questions . . . . 31 4.2. Experiment 1. Single/geminate nasal boundary in Finnish: production ............ . ... . .. . ................... 32 4.3. Experiment 2. Single/geminate nasal boundary in Japanese: production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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