Acoustics Analysis of Japanese Geminate Consonant Pronounced by Indonesian Japanese Learners

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10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_34How to use a DOI?

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Acoustics analysis; Geminate consonants; Indonesian Japanese learners; Japanese

Abstract

In Japanese there is one of basic concepts in pronunciation called sokuon or geminate consonants. Geminate consonant in Japanese is represented with a small “tsu” letter, for example: ippo, sakka, kappu, and so on. The Japanese geminate consonants must be pronounced correctly because the pronunciation can distinguish the meaning and can also affect the naturalness of the speech. This study is aimed to analyze the Japanese geminate consonant pronounced by Indonesian Japanese learners. Sound samples were recorded based on "reading text" model. The respondents were asked to read a Japanese text in which there were 21 vocabularies containing geminate consonants. The results of the recording were analyzed using impression analysis conducted by Japanese native speaker. Next, those were compared to the result of acoustic analysis using Praat to find duration of the “frictional sound” when the respondents pronounced the words. These words contain geminate consonants of fricatives. Then, the “silent sound” produced when pronouncing words that contain geminate consonants of stops. The results show that there are many Indonesian Japanese learners who have not yet pronounced the geminate consonants sound correctly, or naturally. After measuring the duration using Praat, it can be understood that unnatural assessment occurs in the vocabulary which is pronounced with too short geminate consonants duration. However, apart from the duration of the geminate consonants being too short, unnatural judgments also occur in vocabulary which is pronounced with too long duration. This is because the words which are pronounced seem strange and they are unnatural.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Heni Hernawati
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/30
TI  - Acoustics Analysis of Japanese Geminate Consonant Pronounced by Indonesian Japanese Learners
BT  - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 225
EP  - 230
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_34
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_34
ID  - Hernawati2022
ER  -