Perception of Japanese prosody by foreign learners of Japanese and Accessing Meaning

本研究调查了中国、德国和法国学习者对日语节奏和语调的感知，以支持L1和L2之间韵律干扰的说法。我们对实验数据进行了多变量分析，发现母语、音高和历时对立等因素之间存在显著差异。对统计问题的仔细解释表明，母语的韵律方面对每个语言群体都有很强的影响。有趣的是，参与者提供的实验后评论揭示了语言教学中韵律加工策略的有用线索。在观察到声音形式之后，通过对日语韵律制作的一些基本试点实验，尝试了声与意之间的关系。

This study, which supports the claim of a prosodic interference between L1 and L2, examined the perception of rhythm and intonation in Japanese by the Chinese, German, and French learners. Our multivariate analyses on the experimental data showed some significant differences among several factors : namely, mother tongues, pitch and durational oppositions. A careful interpretation of the statistical issues suggests a strong influence of prosodic aspects of L1 for each language group. Interestingly, post-experimental comments provided by the participants revealed useful cues in the strategy of prosodic processing for language teaching. Hearing of sound forms being thus observed, relations between sound and meaning were attempted as next step through some basic pilot experiments in the production of Japanese prosody.