Comparison of spectrographic records of two syllables pronounced from scripts in hiragana and romaji by students with different familiarity with English.
The same syllables /mu/ and /ra/ written in Japanese hiragana and romaji given on a standard speeded naming task elicited phonetically or acoustically different responses in a syllabic hiragana condition and a romaji condition. The participants were two groups of Japanese college students (ns = 15 and 16) with different familiarity with English as a second language. The results suggested that the phonetic reality of syllables represented in these scripts can differ, depending on the interaction between the kind of script and speakers' orthographic familiarity.
Ototake
Harumi
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Hiroshima University, Kagamlyama, Hagashi Hiroshima, Japan.
Yamada
Jun
J
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D019303:Multilingualism; D010699:Phonation; D010700:Phonetics; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011930:Reaction Time; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013561:Symbolism; D014956:Writing