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Cross-Linguistic Perception and Learning of Mandarin Chinese Sounds by Japanese Adult Learners

Wei, Peipei (University of Oregon, 2017-05-01)

This dissertation presents a cross-linguistic investigation of how nonnative sounds are perceived by second language (L2) learners in terms of their first language (L1) categories for an understudies language pair---Japanese ...
Effects of Gender Transition on language Use in Second Language Acquisition of Japanese

Williams, Dylan

Issues related to identity play an important role in guiding learners as they acquire a new language. The purpose of this study was to examine how gender transition may affect the use of linguistic gender-forms during ...
Japanese Discourse Particles in Use

Puckett, Emma (University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)

One of the distinctive features of Japanese is the presence of discourse particles. The only way to truly resolve what these particles mean and how they are used is to examine them in use and to study the entire system ...
Masculinity, Fatherhood, and Beyond: Potential Social Indices Behind Osaka Dialect

Ren, Yi (University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)

This study examines the prospective role of Osaka dialect, a language variation in Japan, in indexing masculinity, fatherhood, and social class. The 2013 film Soshite Chichi ni Naru (Like Father, Like Son) employs Osaka ...
Perceptions of an Osaka Father: How Regional Dialect Influences Ideas on Masculinity and Fatherhood

King, Sara (University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)

In this current research, we aimed to examine the authenticity of a hands-on father’s Osaka dialect in Kore’eda’s 2013 film Soshite Chichi ni Naru and explore whether native Japanese listeners would perceive him to have ...
Second Dialect Acquisition of North Korean Refugees in Seoul

Lee, Jungah (University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)

The current study examines second dialect acquisition of North Korean refugees living in Seoul. A total of 14478 stops were measured from each of 22 Pyongyang North Korean standard (NK) and Seoul South Korean (SK) speakers. ...
Speaking rate normalization across different talkers in the perception of Japanese stop and vowel length contrasts

Kawahara, Shigeto; Kato, Misaki; Idemaru, Kaori (AIP Publishing, 2022-03-16)

Perception of duration is critically influenced by the speaking rate of the surrounding context. However, to what extent this speaking rate normalization is talker-specific is understudied. This experiment investigated ...
The Perceptions of the Japanese Imperfective Aspect Marker –Teiru among Native Speakers and L2 Learners of Japanese

Hara, Yoshiyuki (University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)

The Japanese imperfective aspect marker –teiru is one of the most widely researched tense/aspect markers because of its multiple semantic functions. It has been claimed that the –teiru form can describe two main aspectual ...