The Effect of Word Accent Production on Reading Performance in Japanese Young Children

Sakono, Shino; Ito, Teruaki; Fukuda, Shinji

doi:10.1179/136132811805334948

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“…The results for children's repetition of tri-mora words reported by Sakono et al (2011) showed the accent typicality effect because phonemic representations of words in children could be weaker than those in adults. This hypothesis might generalize across languages as it would also explain the children's data obtained for words in stress-accent languages (de Bree et al, 2006;Roy & Chiat, 2004).…”

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“…In particular, the effect of accent pattern typicality might be more salient or only observed for phonotactically low frequency nonwords, because their phonemic sequences might be less strongly represented even for adults and therefore might require stronger support from another dimension of phonology-pitch accent in the case of the Japanese language (see also Ueno et al, 2014, for a similar rationale). On the other hand, if the poorer repetition of less-typical accent words observed in Sakono et al (2011) simply reflected the lower repetition performance of the atypical accent pattern itself, the conditional rate of phonemic accuracy on accent correct trials might not show any effect of the accent pattern typicality.…”

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“…In Japanese trimora words, the flat pattern is the most frequent and type-1 accent is the second but the type-2 accent is infrequent (Sato, 1993). Sakono, Ito, Fukuda, and Fukuda (2011) reported an effect of pitch-accent pattern typicality on repetition of single unfamiliar tri-mora real words in children (ranged from 5; 0 to 6; 7 years old): unfamiliar words presented with the atypical type-2 accent were recalled less accurately than ones presented with flat and type-1. This result suggests that the quasiregularity of Japanese pitch-accent pattern might have an impact on phonological representations utilized in the repetition task.…”

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“…Patterson et al, 2006;Sekiguchi, 2006;Ueno, Saito, Rogers, & Lambon Ralph, 2011;Ueno et al, 2014). In addition, because Sakono et al (2011) defined correct responses as those with both correct phoneme sequences and accent patterns, it is unclear whether the lower repetition performance in the type-2 accent condition arose from phonemic sequence errors or accent errors, or both. The question as to which factors have an impact on phonological representations is important for understanding word learning.…”

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“…Although previous studies have not paid much attention to the influence (e.g., Sakono et al, 2011), it is important to examine the effect of phonotactic frequency on repetition of accent patterns of nonwords in order to fully understand the interaction between phonemic sequence and accent patterns. If the representational quality of phoneme sequences has an impact on accent representations, an accent pattern of a nonword with a low frequency phoneme sequence should result in lower repetition performance than nonwords with a high frequency phoneme sequence, even on the conditional rate of accent accuracy on phoneme correct trials.…”

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The Influence of Accent Pattern Typicality on Immediate and Delayed Nonword Repetition

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Ueno

Ralph

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PSYCHOLOGIA -An International Journal of Psychological Sciences

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It is well established that the phonological system captures the quasiregularity of phoneme sequences. For example, repetition performance is better for nonwords composed of phoneme combinations that occur frequently in one's native language. Although phoneme sequences are necessarily accompanied by suprasegmental aspects (e.g., accent patterns), the influence of suprasegmental aspects has not been investigated extensively. This study examined the influence of Japanese pitch-accent pattern on nonword repetition. Exploration of nonwords provides an opportunity to investigate phonological factors largely without lexical and semantic influences. We conducted immediate and delayed nonword repetition experiments, manipulating phonotactic frequency and pitch-accent type. Two experiments revealed that nonwords presented with atypical accent patterns showed more frequent phonemic and accent pattern errors than nonwords with more typical accent patterns. The results indicate that the phonological system captures a range of sublexical phonological characteristics found in each language through linguistic experiences and is not limited to coding phonemic sequences alone. We suggest that although there is diversity in functioning of phonological systems driven by linguistic variability, such diversity stems from universal learning mechanisms in language processing systems. eey wordds: K nonword repetition, phonotactic frequency, accent pattern typicality

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Predicting the Structure of a Lexical Environment from Properties of Verbal Working Memory

Tanida

Saito

2022

Cognitive Science

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We analyzed a Japanese lexical database to investigate the structure of the lexical environment based on the hypothesis that the lexical environment is optimized for the functioning of verbal working memory. Our prediction was that, as a consequence of the cultural transmission of language, low-imageable meanings tend to be represented by frequent phonological patterns in the current vocabulary rather than infrequent phonological patterns. This prediction was based on two findings of previous laboratory studies on verbal working memory. (1) The quality of phonological (phonemic and accent) representations in verbal working memory depends on phonological regularity knowledge; therefore, short-term phonological representations are less robust for words with infrequent phonological patterns. (2) Phonological representations are underpinned by contributions from semantic knowledge; therefore, phonological representations of highly imageable words are more robust than those for lowimageable words. Our database analyses show that nouns with less imageable meanings tend to be associated with more frequent phonological patterns in Japanese vocabulary. This lexical structure can maintain the quality of phonological representations in verbal working memory through contributions of semantic and phonological regularity knowledge. Larger semantic contributions compensate for the less robust phonological representations of infrequent phonological forms. The quality of phonological representations is preserved by phonological regularity knowledge when larger semantic contributions are not expected.

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Not Lost in Translation: Generalization of the Primary Systems Hypothesis to Japanese-specific Language Processes

Ueno

Saito

Saito³

et al. 2014

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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The emergentist-connectionist approach assumes that language processing reflects interaction between primary neural systems (Primary Systems Hypothesis). This idea offers an overarching framework that generalizes to various kinds of (English) language and nonverbal cognitive activities. The current study advances this approach with respect to language in two new and important ways. The first is the provision of a neuroanatomically constrained implementation of the theory. The second is a test of its ability to generalize to a language other than English (in this case Japanese) and, in particular, to a feature of that language (pitch accent) for which there is no English equivalent. A corpus analysis revealed the presence and distribution of typical and atypical accent forms in Japanese vocabulary, forming a quasiregular domain. Consequently, according to the Primary Systems Hypothesis, there should be a greater semantic impact on the processing of words with an atypical pitch accent. In turn, when word meaning is intrinsically less rich (e.g., abstract words), speakers should be prone to regularization errors of pitch accent. We explored these semantic-phonological interactions, first, in a neuroanatomically constrained, parallel-distributed processing model of spoken language processing. This model captured the accent typicality effect observed in nonword repetition in Japanese adults and children and exhibited the predicted semantic impact on repetition of words with atypical accent patterns. Second, also as predicted, in word repetition and immediate serial recall of spoken words, human participants exhibited reduced pitch-accent accuracy and/or slower RT for low imageability words with atypical accent patterns, and they generated accent errors reflecting the more typical accent patterns found in Japanese.

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The Effect of Word Accent Production on Reading Performance in Japanese Young Children

Cited by 7 publications

References 7 publications

The Influence of Accent Pattern Typicality on Immediate and Delayed Nonword Repetition

The Influence of Accent Pattern Typicality on Immediate and Delayed Nonword Repetition

Predicting the Structure of a Lexical Environment from Properties of Verbal Working Memory

Not Lost in Translation: Generalization of the Primary Systems Hypothesis to Japanese-specific Language Processes

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