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Yazawa, Kakeru; Whang, James; Kondo, Mariko; Escudero, Paola – Second Language Research, 2020
This study examines relative weighting of two acoustic cues, vowel duration and spectra, in the perception of high front vowels by Japanese learners of English. Studies found that Japanese speakers rely heavily on duration to distinguish /i?/ and [character omitted] in American English (AmE) as influenced by phonemic length in Japanese /ii/ and…
Descriptors: Cues, Second Language Learning, Acoustics, Vowels
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Crane, Lauren Shapiro; Fernald, Anne – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
This study investigated whether European American and Japanese mothers' speech to preschoolers contained exchange- and alignment-oriented structures that reflect and possibly support culture-specific models of self-other relatedness. In each country 12 mothers were observed in free play with their 3-year-olds. Maternal speech was coded for…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Asians, North Americans, Cross Cultural Studies