Articulation strategies for English liquids used by Japanese speakers

This study examines the tongue shapes used by Japanese speakers to produce the English liquids /ɹ/ and /l/. Four native Japanese speakers of varying levels of English acquisition and one North American English speaker were recorded both acoustically and with Electromagnetic Articulography. Seven dis...

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Published in:Acoustical Science and Technology 2018/03/01, Vol.39(2), pp.75-83
Main Authors: Moore, Jeff, Shaw, Jason, Kawahara, Shigeto, Arai, Takayuki
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustics
Articulatory phonetics
Foreign accent
Liquids
Second language acquisition
Speech production
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Summary:This study examines the tongue shapes used by Japanese speakers to produce the English liquids /ɹ/ and /l/. Four native Japanese speakers of varying levels of English acquisition and one North American English speaker were recorded both acoustically and with Electromagnetic Articulography. Seven distinct articulation strategies were identified. Results indicate that the least advanced speaker uses a single articulation strategy for both sounds. Intermediate speakers used a wide range of articulations, while the most advanced non-native speaker relied on a single strategy for each sound.
ISSN:1346-3969
1347-5177
DOI:10.1250/ast.39.75