中国人学習者における促音知覚の特徴について- 単語内長音の有無と位置による影響を中心に -

Abstract

This paper takes the native speakers of northern Chinese dialects as the research object, and uses the stimulus words which take the presence or absence of long tone, the relative position of long tone and geminate consonant, and the type of tone as variables, to investigate the influence of the presence of long tone and the relative position of long tone and geminate consonant on the perception of promoting sound and its characteristics. The results show that the presence or absence of a long tone has a great influence on the perception of geminate consonant. “With long tone” needs longer construction duration than “without long tone” to be judged as geminate consonant by learners. In other words, the existence of long tone has inhibitory effect on promoting geminate consonant. The inhibitory effect varies with the relative position of the long tone and the geminate consonant and the different tone types. First of all, compared with the syllable after the geminate consonant, the inhibition effect of the long tone in the syllable before the geminate consonant is more obvious. In addition, when the stimulus has no tone nucleus, the inhibitory effect is relatively stable. When there is a tonal nucleus in the syllable where the stimulus is located, the inhibitory effect is stronger or weaker due to the different relative positions of the long tone and the geminate consonant. That is, when the long tone is located in the syllable after the geminate consonant, the inhibition effect is similar to the promotion effect of the tonal nucleus on the perception of geminate consonant. When the long tone is located in the syllable before the geminate consonant, the inhibition effect is not obvious by the influence of the tone nucleus. The results of this study only stay in the primary stage of learners. Whether the effect of long tone on the perception of geminate consonant will change with the improvement of Japanese proficiency, which will be verified as a future topic.