@article{oai:nufs-nuas.repo.nii.ac.jp:00001579,
 author = {中北, 美千子},
 issue = {8},
 journal = {名古屋外国語大学論集, Bulletin of Nagoya University of Foreign Studies},
 month = {Feb},
 note = {Prosody is an indispensable element for understanding the meanings conveyed by the speech stream. The F0 contour and durational patterns, which comprise the prosodic properties of a speech signal most relevant to disambiguation, can be separately manipulated in resynthesized speech to investigate the manner in which these prosodic cues are used by listeners to disambiguate lexical/syntactic units. The existing literature has suggested that the weighting schema of prosodic cues changes over the course of the development of a native language. In the meantime, it remains unknown whether the same mechanism applies to the development of a second language. This study adapted the method of a previous study to the speech perception of non-native speakers with the aim of examining the hypothesis of EFL learners’ cue-weighting shift as a function of intensive exposure to English. To investigate whether intensive exposure to an English-speaking environment changes Japanese students’ perceptual prosodic cue weighting, a set of data was collected from 10 participants using a prosodic disambiguation task before and after a one-month study abroad program in Australia. The participants’ task was to listen to a set of ambiguous speech samples resynthesized by decoupling, creating three levels of F0 contour patterns and five levels of durational patterns of two variations, sunflower, pot and sun, flowerpot, and crossing them. Each participant selected either a picture card with a sunflower and a pot or a picture card with a sun and a flowerpot. The results suggest that a cue-weighting shift has occurred for these EFL learners with the F0 contour pattern cue becoming weighted heavier after the one-month study abroad program. Together with the existing literature, this study’s findings support the hypothesis that a developmental cue-weighting shift can apply for both native and non-native English developments.},
 pages = {251--269},
 title = {The Effect of a One-Month Study Abroad Program on Japanese Students’ Perception of Prosody of Spoken English},
 year = {2021},
 yomi = {ナカキタ, ミチコ}
}