[PDF][PDF] A study of pitch patterns of Japanese English analyzed via comparative linguistic features of English and Japanese.

T Nariai, K Tanaka - INTERSPEECH, 2008 - isca-archive.org
Certain defects in utterances of a word or phrase occur in English as spoken by Japanese
native subjects, referred to in this article as Japanese English. This study considers such …

[PDF][PDF] A rhythmic analysis on Chinese EFL speech

A Li, Z Yin, Y Zu - 3rd International Conference on Speech Prosody …, 2006 - Citeseer
This paper, based on a phonetic experiment, depicts a contrastive study on the rhythmic
pattern of Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (CL2) as compared with that of …

[PDF][PDF] A study of pitch patterns of sentence utterances by Japanese speakers of English in comparison with native speakers of English

T Nariai, K Tanaka - Second Language Studies: Acquisition …, 2010 - researchgate.net
This paper describes statistical analyses for identifying certain inherent ambiguities on pitch
patterns of sentence utterances in English spoken by Japanese (Japanese English …

A study on pitch patterns of Japanese speakers of English in comparison with native speakers of English

T Nariai, K Tanaka - Acoustical Science and Technology, 2012 - jstage.jst.go.jp
We describe the analytical results for pitch patterns of sentence utterances in English
spoken by Japanese (Japanese English, henceforth). In this study, the difference between …

[PDF][PDF] Investigating the effectiveness of Prontest software to train English proficiency.

H Obari, H Kojima, M Okumura, M Yoshikawa… - SLaTE, 2009 - isca-archive.org
This paper is to investigate the effectiveness of Prontest software to improve English
pronunciation and proficiency for Japanese EFL learners. Several parameters such as …

A study on pitch patterns in Japanese speakers of English with verification by speech re-synthesis

T Nariai, K Tanaka - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and …, 2011 - search.ieice.org
Certain irregularities in the utterances of words or phrases often occur in English spoken by
Japanese native subject, referred to in this article as Japanese English. Japanese English is …

[PDF][PDF] An Experimental Analysis of Pitch Patterns in Japanese Speakers of English with Verification by Speech Re-Synthesis.

T Nariai, K Tanaka - INTERSPEECH, 2011 - isca-archive.org
Certain irregularities in utterances of a word or phrase occur in English as spoken by
Japanese native subjects (Japanese English, henceforth). This study considers such pitch …

[PDF][PDF] Perceptual differences of the fundamental frequency at the sentence level between native English speakers and native Japanese speakers

T Nariai - 筑波学院大学紀要= Bulletin of Tsukuba Gakuin …, 2019 - japan-iu.ac.jp
Certain differences are often recognized in utterances between native speakers of English
and Japanese speakers of English. In this paper, perceptual differences in the change in a …

[PDF][PDF] The impact of speech training software on teaching EFL

H Obari, H Kojima, S Itahashi - Glasgow, 10-13 July 2013 Papers, 2013 - researchgate.net
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of English speech training software
on the production of English prosodic features by native Japanese EFL learners. The …