Perception of prosodic social affect in Japanese by American learners of Japanese

Marine Guerry (1) , Takaaki Shochi (2, 1) , Albert Rilliard (3) , Donna Erickson (4, 5)

1 CLLE-ERSS - Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie
2 LaBRI - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
3 LIMSI - Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur
4 Kanazawa Medical University
5 Sophia University Phonetics Laboratory

This study proposes (1) to investigate the variability of L1 American listeners' perceptual behaviors on 16 Japanese prosodic affective expressions using the free-labeling approach. A comparison with Japanese native listeners is also introduced in order (2) to identify the difference of perceptual differences between L1 and L2 listeners.

Mots clés: perception; social affects; free-labeling; L2 listeners

Domaines: Linguistique

Marine Guerry, Takaaki Shochi, Albert Rilliard, Donna Erickson. Perception of prosodic social affect in Japanese by American learners of Japanese. 1st International Symposium on Applied Phonetics, May 2016, Nagoya, Japan. ⟨hal-01314778⟩