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| Presentation | Does Japanese motherese help children acquire Japanese rhythm? -- Distributional analysis of moraic phonemes in infant-directed speech -- Keiichi Tajima, Kuniyoshi Tanaka (Hosei Univ., RIKEN), Reiko Mazuka (RIKEN)  SP2008-37 |
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| Abstract | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | When adults talk to infants or young children, they often modify their way of speaking. This modified speech is called "motherese" or "infant-directed speech" (IDS) and is said to differ from "adult-directed speech" (ADS). However, the precise manner in which IDS differs from ADS is not entirely clear. The present study examines a Japanese infant-directed speech corpus (RIKEN Japanese Mother-Infant Conversation Corpus (R-JMICC)), focusing especially on how moraic phonemes or "special moras" (second half of long vowels, moraic nasala, and moraic obstruents) are distributed in IDS. Results indicate that: (1) the rate of occurrence of moraic phonemes is higher in IDS than in ADS, (2) the relative frequency of particular word classes such as onomatopoeia and mimetics is higher in IDS than in ADS, and (3) onomatopoeia and mimetics that appear in IDS contain special moras more often than do those that appear in ADS. These results open up the possibility that infants are exposed to many instances of special moras through onomatopoeia and other word classes in IDS. | |
| Keyword | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | Japanese / rhythm / special mora / language development / infant-directed speech / onomatopoeia / / | |
| Reference Info. | IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 108, no. 116, SP2008-37, pp. 99-104, June 2008. | |
| Paper # | SP2008-37 | |
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| ISSN | Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 | |
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| Committee | SP |
| Conference Date | 2008-06-27 - 2008-06-28 |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Speech Production, Speech Perception, Hearing and Speech, etc. |
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| Registration To | SP |
| Conference Code | 2008-06-SP |
| Language | Japanese |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | Does Japanese motherese help children acquire Japanese rhythm? |
| Sub Title (in English) | Distributional analysis of moraic phonemes in infant-directed speech |
| Keyword(1) | Japanese |
| Keyword(2) | rhythm |
| Keyword(3) | special mora |
| Keyword(4) | language development |
| Keyword(5) | infant-directed speech |
| Keyword(6) | onomatopoeia |
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| 1st Author's Name | Keiichi Tajima |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Hosei University, RIKEN Brain Science Institute (Hosei Univ., RIKEN) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Kuniyoshi Tanaka |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Hosei University Graduate School, RIKEN Brain Science Institute (Hosei Univ., RIKEN) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Reiko Mazuka |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | RIKEN Brain Science Institute (RIKEN) |
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| Registration for | SP |
| Paper # | SP2008-37 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.108 |
| Number (no) | no.116 |
| Page | pp.99-104 |
| #Pages | 6 |
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